welcome back to learn English with be
global my name is Kristen and today we
are going to talk about jobs and careers
we all need to work for a living in
order to pay our bills or go to school
and I wanted to be able to go over some
of the sayings that we use as well as
some of the vocabulary if you are
looking for a job or if you are
currently in a job and just need to know
what the right words are to say to your
boss or your employer so we're going to
start out talking about the two main
different types of jobs we have
blue-collar jobs and we have white color
jobs now blue-collar jobs are anything
that is manual work that's manual labor
and in a blue-collar job you could be
working in construction which means you
are making and building buildings you
could be working in a mine where you are
looking for coal or you could also a
blue-collar worker would be a janitor or
a custodian and they'd clean buildings
or businesses or anything that needs to
be cleaned and kept up and nice and
healthy to meet the standards for the
people that are working there would be
considered a janitor or custodian
basically blue-collar jobs are any jobs
that require physical manual labor and
many blue-collar jobs do not require
certain certifications or that you have
a degree or that you have been educated
and there are some blue-collar jobs that
do require certifications before you can
be hired for that position white-collar
jobs are more your professionals that
work in an office type setting so they
are mostly behind a desk so that's where
the term white-collar came from because
most of the businessmen back in the day
wore white collared shirts and many of
them still do today so for white collar
this is an office job
and these are most of your professionals
so anyone that's maybe owns a company or
is an administrative assistant anyone
that works in administration which are
the main people that run a business or
an organization would be sitting behind
a desk and that would be considered a
white-collar job okay so those are our
two are two main categories for jobs
here now there are several different
industries that you can work on and
industry would be the type of work that
you do on a broader scale so a few
different industries we have the medical
industry and that would include anything
having to do with medicine so that could
be your doctors nurses technicians that
work in the x-ray department anyone that
works at a hospital would be considered
working in the medical industry and
there are also both blue-collar and
white-collar positions in the medical
industry although most of them are
white-collar most of them require that
you have gone to school that you have a
degree possibly from a local university
or a certification of some sort in order
to work in the medical field another
industry is education
now in education of course that would be
all of our educators anyone that teaches
on any level would be considered someone
that works in the education industry so
we've got professors who work at
universities we have teachers that work
in elementary school or junior high or
high school anyone that has considered
themselves to be an educator has gone to
school they have received their degree
and their certification in order to
teach so the education industry has all
of our teachers in it now beyond medical
of Education we have government and that
could be anyone that's in a political
office it could be our police officers
our firefighters anyone that works for
the city or the county works for the
government and that is an entire
industry in its own some of those jobs
again are blue collar if you're working
on landscaping for parks if you're
cleaning up those parks are helping to
build anything that's new within the
city that could still be considered a
government job that is blue-collar there
are also several government jobs that
are white-collar every government has a
City office or a city hall that you go
to all of the cities have these and
anyone that works in that building
behind a desk would be considered a
white collared worker that works for the
government another industry is
entertainment
now here in California the entertainment
industry is huge
there are so many people that work in
entertainment and entertainment is truly
that anything that is entertaining
anything that teaches you something
about entertainment that could be a
movie it could be a TV show it could be
a music artist and for all of those
things that you see on television and in
the movies and when you go to your local
concert there's people behind those
scenes putting all of those together
there's event planners there are
assistants there are production crews
those are all considered entertainment
and all of those people work within the
entertainment industry and again there
are blue-collar and white-collar jobs
with the entertainment industry now
beyond entertainment we have the service
industry
and anyone that works in service is
providing a service to someone else so
hairdressers people that style your hair
are considered working in the service
industry as well as anyone that does
nails anyone that works in a restaurant
or catering they provide a service to
the people therefore they work in the
service industry so now that we've gone
through some of the industries and the
types of jobs what I want to talk about
now is vocabulary I think this is going
to be the most important part of today's
lesson is learning the different
vocabulary when you decide that you are
going to go apply for a job so when you
apply your employer is the person that
you work for another term you may hear
is boss that's another another word for
employer your boss someone that you
answer to they are the ones that are in
charge they tell you what they need and
then you provide it as an employee
notice these two endings here an
employer is the person you work for an
employee is the person that is doing the
working so at my job I work for my
employer which makes me the employee so
we had a few different words here we
have job what is it that you do what is
your job your job is your work I teach
English that is my job
that is my occupation it's how you
occupy your time and how you make money
another term is profession what is your
profession what are you a professional
at and your title if someone asks what
is your title in a big corporation your
title could be senior vice president or
my title is administrative assistant in
big businesses you will be given a title
when you are first hired for a job
and that title describes what your
position is and oftentimes each title
comes with a different salary or a
different amount of money that you will
be paid so the same is earn a living how
do you earn a living what do you do what
is your job I earn a living teaching
English or I earn a living doing hair I
earn a living being a police officer
that's how you earn a living that's how
you pay for all of your learning all of
your living expenses so when you start
to look for a job a question that you
can ask a business is are you hiring so
when you ask are you hiring they're
going to tell you what open jobs they
have and what vacancies they need to
fill so these are any jobs that may be
available for you to apply to so you can
call them up or you can walk into the
business and ask the person in charge
excuse me
are you hiring I'm looking for a job now
there's different types of jobs there's
full time which means typically in the
United States that's 40 hours a week
every day from the morning to the
evening you go to work five days a week
that will be considered a full-time
position part-time positions can vary
they can be anywhere from two hours a
week to typically thirty hours a week
that would be a part-time position
because you're only there part of the
time there are temporary positions they
may be looking to hire someone on a
temporary basis maybe they need an
assistant for only a couple of months so
it will not be an ongoing long term job
but it'll be temporary they may hire you
just for the season when the holidays
come often businesses will hire people
just to help out for that season because
they need extra help and there's
internships
some internships are paid and some are
considered unpaid so make sure if you're
looking for money because you have to
earn a living you want to make sure that
if you do an internship it is a paid
internship and with internships
typically that means that you have no
experience with the position with the
title you don't know how to do the work
so in an internship you will go in and
you will learn you will be helping them
and you will be working but you will
also be learning how to do that job the
best way that you can so internships are
very valuable especially if you are
first coming out of university because
in an internship is where you're going
to learn all of the ins and the outs of
the business which means all of the
details everything you need to know to
learn how to do that position and then
once you learn that you want to know
what the salary is or the wages what are
you going to get paid for this job so
now you know that there's openings and
you know you're interested but what does
it pay how much will I be making will I
be able to earn a living based on what
they're paying me a salary is a set
number you're expected to work 40 hours
a week with a salary you are paid
regardless of how many hours you work
although the 40 is expected you may stay
a little bit later you may come in
earlier you may work 60 hours some week
and you will not get paid more for those
hours unless it has been agreed upon
with your employer but with the salary
you make a set number of money all the
time and unless there's a review and
they decide to give you a promotion or a
raise which means you make more money
then that's the amount that you make if
you do hourly wages then you are paid by
the hour so if you stay over in your
eight-hour day and work
ten hours you will get paid for those
two extra hours because they pay you by
the hour now when you are going to get
ready to do your interview and apply for
a new job they're going to want to know
what your skill set is now skill set is
the set of skills that you have things
that you are very good at some people
have a strong skill set in computers or
in technology that's another industry
that we should add up here is the
technology industry that's anything
having to do with computers how
computers work anything on the internet
or having to do with social media those
are all tech related positions and
they're going to want to know what your
skill set is what is your skill set if
you teach English what is your skill set
are you strong in grammar do you have
your degree what is your skill set what
are you good at and sometimes you may
hear that you are overqualified it's
very strange to me but it happens often
the businesses will not hire somebody
because they feel they are overqualified
for the position that means that you are
too qualified that you know too much and
you have too much experience for the
position that you are hiring for and
they will oftentimes prefer to hire
somebody that is brand-new and doesn't
know as much so as you get ready for the
process of hiring you will need to
submit your resume or your CV that's
your list of everything that you have
done it has all of your contact
information on it your first and last
name and all of your job history to show
the employer what your experience is
there's usually an application to fill
out so you can ask me I have an
application I want to apply for this job
and then you fill out the application
sometimes there is a test for several
government jobs there will be a test
so you will then have to go and take a
test and then if you pass the test you
will be asked in for an interview and in
the interview they want to talk face to
face to learn more about you they've
read your resume and your application
and they're interested in really getting
to know you to see if you're a good fit
for their company at that point you will
find out whether or not they are hiring
and if they're going to hire you if you
are hired that means you get the job
you'll want to know what your start date
is which means what is the day that I
will be starting this job what is my
start date and you'll also want to know
what your shift is my shift is the
amount of time that you're working is my
shift from 8:00 in the morning till 5:00
o'clock at night or is my shift from 3
o'clock in the afternoon till 10 o'clock
in the evening what is my shift then
they will tell you about your paycheck
which is the cheque that you receive to
be paid for the job that you are doing
and what your pay date is so you know
what day it is that you're getting paid
now some other terms before we leave
that I want to make sure you know are
let go and laid off vs. fired or
terminated so when you are let go of a
job or laid off from a job that means
that they have decided that they no
longer need your position and they're
going to have to get rid of it or maybe
there's been a budget cut and they've
lost some money and they have to somehow
figure out which employees to keep and
which employees to let go more often
than not when you are let go or laid off
from a position it doesn't have anything
to do with you and your performance or
your skill set or how you're doing at
your job it's truly something that they
have to do for the greater good of their
business however if you are fired or
terminated that means that they have
decided
to let you go based off of something
that you have done if you are fired from
a position that means that you have
upset them in such a way or you have not
done your job well and they will be
replacing you they have chosen to get
rid of you entirely to replace you with
somebody else in that position because
they are unhappy with the results so
they can fire you
and if you decide I don't want to do
this job anymore then what you do is you
hand in your notice when you hand in
notice you are letting them know I as of
this date will no longer be employed
with this company I will not be doing
this position any longer I am handing in
my notice and then you become unemployed
that means that you don't have a job you
are unemployed and looking for work and
in the United States if you are a
citizen and have worked somewhere for a
long time and you get let go or laid off
there is a business that works to help
you if you are unemployed to give you
money until you can get another job I
hope that all of this has taught you a
bit about the vocabulary and what we use
for jobs and careers I am excited to be
able to teach with you again and I look
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