Citat jedinice

Exercise 1: Complete the sentences with the most appropriate words for the situations of hiring and firing. Choose among the following words. Three terms can be used interchangeably depending on the level of formality. Be careful! Some terms are used in more than one sentence

• redundant

• head hunter

• dismissal

• sacked

• layoffs

• fired

• dismissed

• recruitment

• resigned

• The recent economic crisis has led to massive ____.

• They ____ her for being late.

• He ____ from the company in order to take a more challenging job.

• He has been ____ from his job for incompetence.

• He was ____ from his $165 000 job for poor performance.

• To keep the company alive, half the workforce is being made ____.

• The economic downturn has meant 10, 000 ____ in our plants in the North-East.

Exercise 2: Translate the following expressions into English.

a. uručiti otkaz poslodavcu

• h_i your r_

• q__/r___

b. proglasiti nekog tehnološkim viškom

• l_ someone o_

• m__ someone r___

c. otkazni rok

• n__p___

d. zapošljavanje novih djelatnika

• r___

e. ‘lovac na glave’

• h_ h_

Exercise 3: What are the prepositions?

• He has been dismissed _ his job _ incompetence.

Exercise 4: What are the nouns?

a. They’ve made a lot of people redundant. There have been a lot of __.

b. They will maybe lay him off and more __ might follow.

c. There are recruiting a lot of graduates as a part of their __ process.