Career stages vocabulary
Market Leader Intermediate Unit 8
Warmer/ trends language revision
Draw your weekend, week or last working day as a graph and explain what it means to your partner(s)
Draw your past, present and future career as some kind of graph. Explain the graph to your partner, telling them why certain parts are rising and dropping
Stages of a career
What are typical stages of someone’s career, e.g. retirement?
Put the following stages of a career onto a timeline by where you think they are most likely to go. If they are likely to happen several times, put it at the first point that it is likely to happen at.
| Permanent contract/ job/ post | Temporary worker/ contract | Freelance | Semi-retired |
| Head hunted
|
Promotion | Demotion | Job placement |
| Graduate | Posted overseas | On the job training | MBA |
| New recruit | Probationary period | Job fair | Voluntary redundancy |
| Psychometric testing | Team building weekend | Interview panel | Performance related pay |
| Middle manager
|
Executive | Cubicle | Demotivation |
| Professionally written CV | Fast tracking | Mentoring | Starting salary |
| Unpaid overtime
|
Self employed | Career break | Year off/ gap year |
| First job | Paid by commission | Dress code | End of year bonus |
| Subsidized cafeteria | Internal recruitment | Induction sessions | Rising star |
| Part-time job
|
Clerical work | National minimum wage | Glass ceiling |
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