On The Job Vocab
Across
- 2. A person's job
- 5. An ability, characteristic or experience that makes you suitable for a particular job or activity
- 8. A short written description of your education, qualifications, and previous employment, which you send to an employer when you are trying to get a job; also sometimes called a curriculum vitae or CV
- 9. Using friends, family, and people in organizations that you know to help you find a job
- 10. A form used to apply for a job
- 11. An amount of money taken from your paycheck every payday (usually for things such as federal and state income taxes, employment taxes, social security taxes, workers compensation coverage, and health insurance payments)
- 12. A person who knows you and is willing to describe and usually praise you to support you when you are trying to get a job; a statement as to a person's character or ability
- 14. Things that employers may offer you in addition to your wages; for example, health insurance, annual or sick leave, holidays, paid vacation, parking space or monthly reimbursement for parking space area, mileage for travel, and tuition reimbursement
- 15. Knowledge or skill that one gets from doing, seeing or feeling something; the experience a person already has of working
- 17. Aim or purpose; the end toward which effort is directed
- 18. An amount of money that is paid to the government, which is based on your income
- 20. Advertisements in a newspaper, magazine, or online, regarding job opportunities; the section of a newspaper, magazine or Web site devoted to advertisements about job opportunities
- 21. A feeling or opinion about something or someone; a mental position with regard to a state
Down
- 1. The amount of pay or wages you take home after all your deductions are taken out of your paycheck
- 2. The chance to do something you want to do, advance, or progress; the chance to get a job
- 3. A department of the U.S. government that collects taxes
- 4. How important or useful something is; can be used to describe something's basic worth (how important or useful people find it) or monetary worth (how much something costs)
- 6. Employment; the regular work a person does to earn money; a specific task or piece of work; a specific task or project that is one's responsibility
- 7. The desire to learn about and/or be involved in a particular field or topic; activities that you enjoy doing or subjects that you like to learn about and spend time studying
- 13. The total amount of your pay or wages before any deductions are taken out of your paycheck
- 16. A profession for which one trains; a job or series of job that you do during your working life
- 19. The ability to do an activity or job well, especially because you have practiced it