AT WORK

• To seek a job
• Job ads 
• to apply for a job
• a job seeker
• To turn down an application
• An impressive CV
• a stroke of luck
• To seize opportunities
• First impressions
• a good character reference
• Personnal recommendation
• to achieve your aims
• To make her dreams come true
• Make contactas
• Set my heart onn becoming...
• Toseize opportunities
• To put a lot of efforts into...

• Work placements
• Gain hands-on experience

• To get a job
• Going straight into a permanent job
• to find a job nearer home
• I was taken on for a  3- month work
• a mapped-out career plan
• The main  priority
• A strong preference
• a hand-on experience
• a false career start
• to change track
• Terms and  conditions agreed beforehand

• Places
• I work IN a bank
• I work FOR (name of a company)
• The  workplace
• Working environment

• Elements
• the powerforce
• a co-worker
• Team players
• A close-knit team
• trade unions
• collective arrangements reached
• collective bargain ( el convenio colectivo)

• Qualities
• Tenacity
• Self-confidence
• Ruthlessness
• determination
• ability to take risks
• a clear focus
• half-hearted

                                      

• types of work
• a 9 to 5 job
• shift work
• part-time / full time
• Flexible time
• to do / to work overtime
• to work in a assembly line (cadena de montaje)
• A permanent job
• a causal job
• to be self-employed
• To be a trainee ( the very junior person in a company)

• Different tasks
• A daily routine
• A run-of-the mill job
• to keep at it / to work at it
• to steer / direct / guide /lead
• To be in charge of
• to do paperwork
• To write memos, arrange meetings
• No matter how hard she works

• Problems
• To get to grips with managing a workload
• Tight deadlines
• to be under pressure
• to be tied up at work
• to cach up with
• to be mad at work recently
• Overload of work
• heavy workload
• to be snowed under
• to be burned out
• Working hours
• to commute
• to go on a strike
• to be  overworked and  underpaid

• Improving
• Wage scales
• to take pride indoing her job
• a promotion
• a fresh challenge
• further career prospects

• Without job
• dismiss / sack
• to be laid off / to get fired
• to be redundant
• to step down /to resign / to quit
• to be unemployed
• to be retired

• Payments
• a pay rise
• Sick pay
• holiday pay
• Income tax
• Lucrative job
• A salary increment

• holidays
• How much holidays do you get
• A voluntary leave

• To be sick
• A maternity/ paternity leave

• Jobs
• a firefighter
• a fire brigade
• soldier
• An army
• Pilot
• Air force
• Police officer
• Police force
• To  work  in a  stall /( in a market)
• To work AT a computer
• To run a coffee bar