What's Job ?

What’s the job?

accountant                             clerk                                    personnel officer

advertising executive             computer operator                R&D Manager

assembly person                    draughtsperson                     receptionist

chauffeur                               motor mechanic                    salesperson

You will be in charge of a team of highly creative individuals delivering new quality products and enhancing our existing range.

1. personnel officer

With particular responsibilities for recruitment and selection. Communication skills and a pragmatic approach to problem solving essential.

2. R&D Manager

With mechanical design experience to work as a member of a team producing designs and drawings for production. Experience of our products range is not essential.

3. draughtperson

Duties include filing, mailing, relief reception and other general office work.

4.  receptionist

Needed for night shift. Clean modern factory. Varied work. Good eyesight essential.

5. assembly person

Successful applicant will be articulate and presentable. Remuneration includes retainer and car allowance plus commission structure.

6. salesperson

Reporting directly to Managing Director. You will take over financial control for all aspects of daily operation.

7. accountant

Sober habits, clean driving licence, able to be on call 7 days per week at times. Uniform supplied.

8. chauffeur

Must be experienced in the repair and maintenance of heavy duty vehicles. References must be provided from previous employers.

9. motor mechanic

You are the first person our clients will meet so you need to be friendly, stylish and efficient.

10. clerk

Some experience in the above-mentioned software is essential but training will be given to the successful applicant.

11. computer operator

You will be an essential member of an agency responsible for some of the country’s top accounts. You will be responsible for the administration of local and national promotions.

12. advertising executive

As you were reading the advertisements, did you notice word partnerships such asfinancial control and communication skills?

Look through the advertisements again and see how many more you can find.

Complete each of the sentences below with a suitable word partnership taken from the advertisements.

We’re looking for new products to add to our selling list.

She’s an advertising executive of this team. We can’t do without her.

You get more money if you work on the advertising company but it ruins your social life.

He had a very good idea to solving problems.

I didn’t get the job as a driver as I didn’t have a driving license.

My concern are health and safety but I’m also concerned with the general welfare of employees.

Banking Services

Fill each blank in the text with the correct word or phrase. Choose from the following list. Use each item once only.

Commission               issued                          statement                    credit rating

Debited                       outstanding                withdraw                    credit transfer

in full                          salaries                        banker’s draft           financial institutions

interest                        slip                              cash dispenser            standing order

Bank offers many services to business and their customers. Here are some of the most common:

Many people now have a card which enables them to 1. withdraw money from a 2. cash dispenser. You feed your card into the machine and key in your PIN (personal identification number) and the amount of money you want. If you have enough in your account, the money requested will be 3. issued up to a daily limit. Your account is automatically 4. debited for the amount you have drawn out.

Provided you have a sound 5. credit rating, you can get a credit card from a bank and other 6. financial institution. To obtain goods or services, you present your card and sign a special voucher. When it receives the voucher, the credit card company pays the trader (less a 7. commission) and then send you a monthly 8. slip. Depending on the type of card you have, you will either have to pay 9. in full or be able to pay part of what is owed and pay10. interest in the balance left 11. statement.

 If you need to make fixed payments at regular intervals, e.g. for insurance premiums, you can arrange a 12. credit transfer (sometimes known as a banker’s order) so that the bank will do this for you.

If you have several bills to pay, you can do this by 13. standing order . You write one cheque for the total sum involved, fill in a 14. outstanding for each bill and hand everything to the bank cashier.

The transfer system is also used by employers to pay 15. salaries directly into employees’ bank accounts.

If you are dealing with a supplier for the first time, a 16. banker’s draft may be used as payment. This is a cheque guaranteed by a bank and therefore it is not likely to ‘bounce’.

UK Unemployment Total Falls to 2.16m ( Economy News )

The number of people out of work fell by 161,000 to 2.16 million, bringing the unemployment rate down to 6.6%.

The number of people in work rose by a record 345,000, to 30.5 million, most of which are in full-time employment.

But the quarterly rate of earnings growth, including bonuses, slowed to 0.7% from 1.9% the previous month.

This was largely due to delayed bonus payments, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said. Excluding bonuses, pay rose by 0.9%.

The total number of people out of work is now at its lowest level for more than five years, with youth unemployment, which covers 16-24 year olds, standing at 853,000.

The number of people claiming Jobseeker's Allowance in May fell by 27,400 to 1.09 million, the ONS said.

Prime Minister David Cameron tweeted that the government had reached a "major milestone" in its long term economic plan, with "two million new private sector jobs since 2010".

Labour's shadow work and pensions secretary Rachel Reeves told the BBC that the slowing rise in wage increases meant that "even people in work are struggling to make ends meet".

Signs of strength

The continuing improvement in the jobs market in the three months to April

The number of jobs lost in the public sector was 103,000, but much of this this was down to the reclassification of employees of Lloyds bank from the public to the private sector. Taking out the Lloyds workers, 11,000 jobs were lost in the public sector.

There were 5.4 million people employed in the public sector and 25.1 million in the private sector, up 447,000 on the previous three-month period.

"The rise in employment this month is concentrated in full-time employees, not self-employment, which in the past has been used to 'talk down' the strength of the rise," said David Tinsley at BNP Paribas.

"Indeed, there was a sharp fall in the proportion of people working part-time who say they are doing so because they can't find a full-time job, which is one of the Bank of England's favourite metrics of disguised slack."

Wage 'concern'

Analysts said the ONS figures sent mixed messages to the Bank of England's interest rate-setting committee.

"Labour market strength is the driving force behind calls for interest rate increases from the Bank of England, sooner rather than later, and today's figures will add fuel to their fire," said Jeremy Cook, chief economist at World First.

"However, wage growth has fallen to 0.7%, versus an expected 1.2%, and this is still a major cause for concern. As a result I am still expecting the Bank to hold policy right through into the second quarter of 2015, mainly courtesy of the lack of real wage increases."

The inflation rate in the UK currently stands at 1.8%, meaning wages are increasing at a slower rate than prices.

"Weak pay growth and the 'cost of living crisis' remains the Achilles heel of the economic recovery," said Chris Williamson, chief economist at Markit.

"But it should not be long until we see earnings growth accelerate as the labour market continues to tighten. Pay growth should pick up in coming months, perhaps significantly."

The figures for unemployment in the three months to April are based on the Labour Force Survey, in which the ONS speaks to 60,000 households once a quarter, making it the country's biggest household survey.

The ONS is 95% confident that the figure of a 161,000 fall in unemployment is correct to plus or minus 85,000 people.