Task 8. Add the words from the box to complete the following sentences.

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 834.

Salary

Task 7. Do these common expressions refer to earning a high or a low salary?

Task 6. What are the terms for the following? Find the terms in the previous task.

1. A young person learning a skill by working in a company while also following some educational courses is an ___________.

2. A person with a university degree is a _____________.

3. A person being trained is a_______________.

4. A period of work experience is a ____________.

5. A period during which new employees work in different departments is a _____________.

6. A young employee expected to rise to a senior managerial position is a ___________________.

1. Believe me, they pay peanuts.

2. He really is one of the fat cats.

3. He's rolling in it.

4. I don't know where he finds the time to spend it.

5. I earn an absolute pittance.

6. It's hardly worth getting out of bed for.

7. It's nothing to write home about.

8. She earns a fortune.

9. She must be absolutely loaded.

10. We're talking serious money here, about 120K.

11. If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys!

12. Are we talking telephone numbers?

1. We made a preliminary ___________ of six people we wanted to interview.

2. Each manager is responsible for evaluating the __________ of the people who report to him or her.

3. It's extremely difficult to _________ people with repetitive and uninteresting jobs.

4. It's a big department; I have fifteen ___________ reporting to me.

5. The personnel department has set up a new annual __________ system for all employees.

6. We prefer candidates who have at least done a ________ in a company during their university studies.

7. Our department probably won't ________ anybody new this year.

8. There were over 200 ____________ for that job; it took me a whole day just to reply to the unsuccessful ones.

9. No, 'personal' is an adjective meaning particular to one person, or private; the people who work for a company are its __________.

10. We're going to advertise the ___________ in several newspapers.

11. The atmosphere is really good. I get on well with all my ________________.

12. He's done a lot of good work for us these last two years, and he clearly expects to be ______________ to a higher grade.

13. If they don't want to be overworked, managers have to _______________ certain responsibilities.

14. We found our new chief executive through a firm of ___________.

15. I've been able to leave at four o'clock every day since they introduced the ____________ system.