On the job

In this activity I looked for business verbs , writing sentences with these and in that way to do it easy to understand.



Job description

• Supervise. She supervises the telephone operators.
• Report to. You report to your line manager.
• Manage. He manages a team of five people.
• Liaise with. My job is to liaise with our clients.
• Answer to. I'm the boss so you answer to me.

Recruitment

• Employ. The company only employs six people.
• Take on. They take on extra staff in August.
• Hire. They're hiring people for the factory.
• Apply. He's applying for a new job.
• Interview. She interviewed twenty people.

Career development

• Appraise. We appraise our staff every year.
• Train. She is training to be a Web designer.
• Promote. She was promoted to finance director.
• Pass over. He was passed over for promotion.
• Perform. He hasn't been performing well.
• Demote. They demoted him after poor sales.

The end

• Dismiss. She was dismissed for stealing.
• Sack. She sacked him because he lied to her.
• Fire. She was fired after sales fell.
• Lay off. They laid off fifty workers.
• Make redundant. she was made redundant last month.
• Resign. He resigned from his job.
• Retire. He retired after forty years.

Hopkins, Andy; Potter Jocelyn. (2000). Business English verbs, England: Pearson Education Limited. Pages 23-34.