Employment vocabulary and exercises

One of the key topics in IELTS is work and employment. To help you out, here is a selection of useful employment vocabulary. There are also examples of how the words are used and a series of exercises.

Employ – an exercise in word formation

If you want to learn words well, it is important to learn different forms of them. Employ is one of the key words and it has several different forms – you need to able to use them all if you want to write flexibly.

Job and work

Sometimes the trickiest words are very common words. You definitely need to be able to use both these words. One way to how to use them correctly is to learn phrases.

Career words

These words should come in useful when describing career paths.

Companies

Money words

There are a variety of different words we use to describe money and work.

Adjectives to describe jobs

Feeling ambitious?

Try this crossword to test your knowledge.