Workplace Vocabulary
Staff Selection – The process of interviewing and evaluating the candidates for a specific job and selecting an individual for employment.
Sentence – But the trial shows the need to look with the utmost care at staff selection procedures.
Clinic – a building, often part of a hospital, to which people can go for medical care or advice relating to a particular condition.
Sentence – Doctors held a special clinic to talk to worried parents after a child at the school died of meningitis.
Dentist – a person whose job is treating people’s teeth.
Sentence – I know I need to go to the dentist but I’ve been putting off the evil day as long as possible.
Reception – the place in a hotel or office building where people go when they first arrive.
Sentence – I’ll meet you by the main reception desk.
Appointment – a formal arrangement to meet or visit someone at a particular time and place.
Sentence – She has an appointment with a client at 10.30.
Colleague – one of a group of people who work together.
Sentence – The number-one rule for being a good colleague is to disengage your emotions from the working relationship.
Workshop – a room or building where things are made or repaired using machines and/or tools.
Sentence – Someone in the workshop ran away with the design drawing of the new motor.
Workshop – a room or building where things are made or repaired using machines and/or tools.
Sentence – Someone in the workshop ran away with the design drawing of the new motor.
Employment – the fact of someone being paid to work for a company or organization.
Sentence – With the current job situation, age discrimination in employment is becoming more common.
Unemployed – not having a job that provides money.
Sentence – Getting the unemployed back to work, said the minister, is a moral imperative.
Technical Cooperation – Activities that augment the level of knowledge, skills, technical know-how or productive. aptitudes of people in developing countries; and contribute to the execution of a capital project.
Sentence – The future of the talks on the technical cooperation between the two companies is problematic.
Team Leaders – the person in charge of a team.
Sentence – Dealing managers and team leaders shout at, cajole and entice their dealers into selling large quantities of stock.
Showroom – a large shop in which people are encouraged to look at the goods that are on sale before buying them.
Sentence – The salesman was trying to point us in the direction of the most expensive furniture in the showroom.
Information Desk – a place in a public building, store, etc. where you can go to get information, for example about where to find things in the building.
Sentence – The employee on hotel information desk asks him to keep the name to hotel register.
Stress – great worry caused by a difficult situation, or something that causes this condition.
Sentence – Extreme stress had driven him to the brink of a nervous breakdown.
Ability – the physical or mental power or skill needed to do something.
Sentence – Both are blessed with uncommon ability to fix things.
Vision – an idea or mental image of something.
Sentence – His vision is of a world that coheres through human connection rather than rules.
Employee – someone who is paid to work for someone else.
Sentence – There is a substantial payback in terms of employee and union relations.
Internship – a period of training spent in a hospital by a young doctor in order to finish their medical qualification.
Sentence – Valerie, now you will be in your internship and working next week and Christi will too.
Confidence – the quality of being certain of your abilities or of having trust in people, plans, or the future.
Sentence – The performance improved as their confidence grew.
