If you are someone interested in learning English or in improving your English with vocabulary sheets, then this section will be of great help to you. Today, you’ll be learning vocabulary about a subject that is very present in our professional lives, that is Human Resources.
This section includes :
- A definition of Human Resources.
- A list of vocabulary words related to Human Resources.
So, shall we begin ?
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What Do We Call the Human Resources Department?
A department in the company which is in charge of relations between employers and employees. It deals not only with recruitment, but also with contracts, pay slips and careers, layoffs, relationships and conflicts between employees or between managers and employees.
Human Resources Vocabulary and Sentences To Learn
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| Absence | Not being at the workplace for various reasons |
| Abuse of authority | The excessive use of power over subordinates |
| Allowance | A financial compensation for damage, prejudice or loss of right |
| Basic salary | It’s the gross salary before deductions. It doesn't include bonuses or overtime |
| Bonus | An additional financial payment for employee as being a member of the company or to compensate him/her for some expenses |
| Cut | Budget constraint affecting expenditure and income for a period of time |
| Early retirement | This is a scheme which, under certain conditions, allows people to retire before the legal retirement age |
| Efficiency bonus | They are commonly determined to reward individual performance, although some might be based on collective or team performance |
| Expertise | A high level of competence in a particular job through training or experience |
| Hire | To conclude a salaried employment contract with a worker |
| Holidays | Legal period of leave for employees during which they engage in leisure activities |
| Human Resources Management | Administrative and social management of a company’s personnel and of the pay mass from their recruitment to the end of their contract |
| Human Resources Manager | A person responsible for the entire human resources department of an organisation |
| Lay-off | It’s the termination of the work contract initiated by the employer |
| Maternity leave | The period during which the employment contract of the pregnant employee is suspended before and after the expected delivery date |
| Notice | It is the official information that one person transmits to another, usually to terminate a contract on a given date |
| Pay slip | A compulsory document given to an employee by his/her employer at the time of the payment. It includes the details of the work done by the employee and the corresponding sum |
| Payroll | It’s the wages, salaries and allowances received by people working in an organisation |
| Performance appraisal | It’s an interview that allows the employer to exchange with the employee, to evaluate the outcome of his activity, his performance, and to set goals for the coming year |
| Promotion | The fact of reaching a higher grade, a greater position |
| Recruitment | It’s a multi-step process of finding, selecting and bringing on board new employees |
| Salary | Sum of money paid to an employee for his work |
| Severance pay | It’s the sum of money your employer pays you when you lose your job for no fault of your own |
| Shortage | Scarcity, insufficiency of the necessary resources |
| Sick leave | A period during which an employee ceases to work through illness. It offers payment for the duration of this period |
| Staff | It’s a small group of employees working together on the same project |
| Trade union | Association whose purpose is to defend the common interests of employees |
| Wage | Synonym for salary or pay. The money the employer gives the worker in compensation for his work |
| Working day | All day of the week, excluding the weekly rest day and public holidays that are usually not worked in the company |
| Workplace | A place where a professional activity is carried |
Recruiting Vocabulary: What you need to know to be a good Recruiter
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| Benefits | What brings material or other advantages |
| Fixed-term contract | A contract concluded for a limited period of time which is indicated when signing it |
| Freelance | Organisation, which could be one person, with an autonomous legal status, therefore not subordinate to any authority |
| Full time | It refers to working time corresponding to the length of time set by law |
| Internship | Training period or advanced training in a company in order to acquire skills for a job |
| Job | A paid activity in a company |
| Job application | To offer one’s skills to work in a company on a vacant or new position |
| Job description | A document that details a job offer by specifying the area covered, the surroundings and the tasks |
| Job interview | A meeting between the candidate and the future employer. The aim of this interview is for the employer to check whether the candidate’s skills match the requirements of the position offered |
| Job offer | A message broadcast by an employer on the job market to recruit an employee for a vacant or new position |
| Job openings | An available position for which a job seeker can apply |
| Job opportunity | A position which is likely to be available |
| Job title | A name given to a job to identify and differentiate it from others |
| Part time | Working less than the reference amount time |
| Permanent contract | The common form of the working contract with a legal and unlimited duration in time |
| Position | A professional activity that somebody is assigned to in a given place |
| Role | The role describes the position of the employee in the team. It’s progressively developed in the team and can even evolve, change and rotate between the members of a team |
| Self-employed | Working for yourself without a boss |
| Skills | Thorough, proven ability to carry out a function |
| Temporary employee | A worker temporarily placed at the service of a firm, through a temporary employment agency |
| Trainee | A person completing training and work experience in a company over a given period of time |
| Vacancy | Job for which there is a recruitment process |
| Work experience | The knowledge of an employee acquired through practice over a relatively long period of time |
| Bonus | An additional advantage offered by a company |
| Role | The qualities and abilities required for a position |
| Trainee | Someone in a training period in a company |
| Work experience | Knowledge acquired through practice |
| Abilities | The adequacy of a person's qualifications to perform a function. |
| Active job search | Undertaking of actions, using techniques to find a job |
| Agile | An employee who is flexible and proactive |
| Asset | A positive attitude or knowledge that has a favourable impact to co-workers |
| Bachelor's degree | An academic degree covering upon three to six years of studies in a college or a university |
| Bilingual | Someone who is fluent in two languages |
| Business school | A training organisation in the fields of business management such as: marketing, finance, human resources and management |
| Confident | Someone who believes in his/her ability to perform on a job |
| Cover letter | It’s a letter written by a candidate highlighting his/her skills and qualities, this information is essential to establish his/her relevance to the position offered |
| Credible | What is trustworthy and worth believing |
| Doable | Something that can be achieved and that is feasible |
| Efficient | Someone who performs well, who attains his/her goal, who achieves useful results |
| Engineering school | Schools that train and graduate students to five years level studies in engineering |
| Fluent in English | An employee’s ability to work in English, to switch from English to another language fluidly and with little effort |
| High school degree | It’s an examination taken by young English speakers in the last two years of their secondary education |
| Honest | Someone who is very scrupulous in his or her behaviour to other people and in the execution of his or her work |
| Incentive | Some reward that one get as an encouragement beyond what is normal or agreed |
| Language skills | The capacity to express oneself in one’s mother tongue or in a foreign language, which is the aptitudes to read, write, speak, listen |
| Master's degree | A student’s grade from fourth year of higher education onwards |
| Phd | Meaning ‘doctor of philosophy’, it’s the most common title of a research doctorate degree in English-speaking university systems |
| Reliable | A feeling of safety towards a candidate’s personality |
| Skills | Thorough knowledge or ability to perform a task with high quality |
| With honors | The highest distinction in relation to a student’s grades in obtaining a degree |
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