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Apr 9, 2025
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welcome back to learn English with be
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global my name is Kristen and today we
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are going to talk about jobs and careers
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we all need to work for a living in
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order to pay our bills or go to school
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and I wanted to be able to go over some
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of the sayings that we use as well as
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some of the vocabulary if you are
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looking for a job or if you are
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currently in a job and just need to know
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what the right words are to say to your
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boss or your employer so we're going to
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start out talking about the two main
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different types of jobs we have
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blue-collar jobs and we have white color
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jobs now blue-collar jobs are anything
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that is manual work that's manual labor
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and in a blue-collar job you could be
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working in construction which means you
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are making and building buildings you
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could be working in a mine where you are
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looking for coal or you could also a
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blue-collar worker would be a janitor or
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a custodian and they'd clean buildings
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or businesses or anything that needs to
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be cleaned and kept up and nice and
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healthy to meet the standards for the
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people that are working there would be
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considered a janitor or custodian
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basically blue-collar jobs are any jobs
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that require physical manual labor and
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many blue-collar jobs do not require
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certain certifications or that you have
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a degree or that you have been educated
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and there are some blue-collar jobs that
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do require certifications before you can
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be hired for that position white-collar
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jobs are more your professionals that
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work in an office type setting so they
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are mostly behind a desk so that's where
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the term white-collar came from because
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most of the businessmen back in the day
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wore white collared shirts and many of
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them still do today so for white collar
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this is an office job
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and these are most of your professionals
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so anyone that's maybe owns a company or
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is an administrative assistant anyone
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that works in administration which are
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the main people that run a business or
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an organization would be sitting behind
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a desk and that would be considered a
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white-collar job okay so those are our
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two are two main categories for jobs
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here now there are several different
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industries that you can work on and
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industry would be the type of work that
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you do on a broader scale so a few
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different industries we have the medical
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industry and that would include anything
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having to do with medicine so that could
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be your doctors nurses technicians that
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work in the x-ray department anyone that
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works at a hospital would be considered
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working in the medical industry and
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there are also both blue-collar and
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white-collar positions in the medical
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industry although most of them are
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white-collar most of them require that
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you have gone to school that you have a
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degree possibly from a local university
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or a certification of some sort in order
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to work in the medical field another
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industry is education
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now in education of course that would be
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all of our educators anyone that teaches
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on any level would be considered someone
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that works in the education industry so
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we've got professors who work at
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universities we have teachers that work
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in elementary school or junior high or
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high school anyone that has considered
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themselves to be an educator has gone to
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school they have received their degree
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and their certification in order to
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teach so the education industry has all
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of our teachers in it now beyond medical
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of Education we have government and that
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could be anyone that's in a political
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office it could be our police officers
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our firefighters anyone that works for
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the city or the county works for the
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government and that is an entire
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industry in its own some of those jobs
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again are blue collar if you're working
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on landscaping for parks if you're
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cleaning up those parks are helping to
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build anything that's new within the
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city that could still be considered a
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government job that is blue-collar there
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are also several government jobs that
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are white-collar every government has a
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City office or a city hall that you go
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to all of the cities have these and
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anyone that works in that building
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behind a desk would be considered a
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white collared worker that works for the
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government another industry is
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entertainment
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now here in California the entertainment
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industry is huge
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there are so many people that work in
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entertainment and entertainment is truly
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that anything that is entertaining
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anything that teaches you something
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about entertainment that could be a
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movie it could be a TV show it could be
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a music artist and for all of those
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things that you see on television and in
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the movies and when you go to your local
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concert there's people behind those
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scenes putting all of those together
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there's event planners there are
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assistants there are production crews
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those are all considered entertainment
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and all of those people work within the
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entertainment industry and again there
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are blue-collar and white-collar jobs
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with the entertainment industry now
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beyond entertainment we have the service
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industry
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and anyone that works in service is
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providing a service to someone else so
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hairdressers people that style your hair
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are considered working in the service
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industry as well as anyone that does
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nails anyone that works in a restaurant
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or catering they provide a service to
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the people therefore they work in the
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service industry so now that we've gone
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through some of the industries and the
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types of jobs what I want to talk about
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now is vocabulary I think this is going
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to be the most important part of today's
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lesson is learning the different
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vocabulary when you decide that you are
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going to go apply for a job so when you
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apply your employer is the person that
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you work for another term you may hear
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is boss that's another another word for
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employer your boss someone that you
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answer to they are the ones that are in
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charge they tell you what they need and
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then you provide it as an employee
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notice these two endings here an
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employer is the person you work for an
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employee is the person that is doing the
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working so at my job I work for my
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employer which makes me the employee so
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we had a few different words here we
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have job what is it that you do what is
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your job your job is your work I teach
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English that is my job
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that is my occupation it's how you
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occupy your time and how you make money
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another term is profession what is your
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profession what are you a professional
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at and your title if someone asks what
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is your title in a big corporation your
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title could be senior vice president or
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my title is administrative assistant in
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big businesses you will be given a title
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when you are first hired for a job
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and that title describes what your
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position is and oftentimes each title
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comes with a different salary or a
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different amount of money that you will
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be paid so the same is earn a living how
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do you earn a living what do you do what
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is your job I earn a living teaching
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English or I earn a living doing hair I
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earn a living being a police officer
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that's how you earn a living that's how
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you pay for all of your learning all of
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your living expenses so when you start
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to look for a job a question that you
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can ask a business is are you hiring so
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when you ask are you hiring they're
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going to tell you what open jobs they
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have and what vacancies they need to
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fill so these are any jobs that may be
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available for you to apply to so you can
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call them up or you can walk into the
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business and ask the person in charge
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excuse me
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are you hiring I'm looking for a job now
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there's different types of jobs there's
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full time which means typically in the
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United States that's 40 hours a week
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every day from the morning to the
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evening you go to work five days a week
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that will be considered a full-time
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position part-time positions can vary
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they can be anywhere from two hours a
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week to typically thirty hours a week
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that would be a part-time position
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because you're only there part of the
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time there are temporary positions they
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may be looking to hire someone on a
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temporary basis maybe they need an
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assistant for only a couple of months so
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it will not be an ongoing long term job
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but it'll be temporary they may hire you
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just for the season when the holidays
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come often businesses will hire people
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just to help out for that season because
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they need extra help and there's
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internships
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some internships are paid and some are
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considered unpaid so make sure if you're
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looking for money because you have to
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earn a living you want to make sure that
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if you do an internship it is a paid
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internship and with internships
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typically that means that you have no
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experience with the position with the
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title you don't know how to do the work
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so in an internship you will go in and
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you will learn you will be helping them
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and you will be working but you will
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also be learning how to do that job the
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best way that you can so internships are
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very valuable especially if you are
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first coming out of university because
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in an internship is where you're going
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to learn all of the ins and the outs of
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the business which means all of the
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details everything you need to know to
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learn how to do that position and then
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once you learn that you want to know
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what the salary is or the wages what are
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you going to get paid for this job so
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now you know that there's openings and
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you know you're interested but what does
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it pay how much will I be making will I
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be able to earn a living based on what
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they're paying me a salary is a set
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number you're expected to work 40 hours
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a week with a salary you are paid
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regardless of how many hours you work
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although the 40 is expected you may stay
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a little bit later you may come in
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earlier you may work 60 hours some week
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and you will not get paid more for those
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hours unless it has been agreed upon
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with your employer but with the salary
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you make a set number of money all the
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time and unless there's a review and
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they decide to give you a promotion or a
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raise which means you make more money
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then that's the amount that you make if
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you do hourly wages then you are paid by
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the hour so if you stay over in your
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eight-hour day and work
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ten hours you will get paid for those
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two extra hours because they pay you by
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the hour now when you are going to get
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ready to do your interview and apply for
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a new job they're going to want to know
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what your skill set is now skill set is
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the set of skills that you have things
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that you are very good at some people
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have a strong skill set in computers or
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in technology that's another industry
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that we should add up here is the
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technology industry that's anything
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having to do with computers how
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computers work anything on the internet
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or having to do with social media those
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are all tech related positions and
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they're going to want to know what your
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skill set is what is your skill set if
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you teach English what is your skill set
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are you strong in grammar do you have
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your degree what is your skill set what
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are you good at and sometimes you may
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hear that you are overqualified it's
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very strange to me but it happens often
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the businesses will not hire somebody
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because they feel they are overqualified
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for the position that means that you are
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too qualified that you know too much and
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you have too much experience for the
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position that you are hiring for and
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they will oftentimes prefer to hire
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somebody that is brand-new and doesn't
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know as much so as you get ready for the
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process of hiring you will need to
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submit your resume or your CV that's
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your list of everything that you have
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done it has all of your contact
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information on it your first and last
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name and all of your job history to show
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the employer what your experience is
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there's usually an application to fill
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out so you can ask me I have an
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application I want to apply for this job
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and then you fill out the application
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sometimes there is a test for several
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government jobs there will be a test
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so you will then have to go and take a
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test and then if you pass the test you
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will be asked in for an interview and in
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the interview they want to talk face to
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face to learn more about you they've
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read your resume and your application
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and they're interested in really getting
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to know you to see if you're a good fit
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for their company at that point you will
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find out whether or not they are hiring
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and if they're going to hire you if you
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are hired that means you get the job
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you'll want to know what your start date
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is which means what is the day that I
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will be starting this job what is my
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start date and you'll also want to know
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what your shift is my shift is the
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amount of time that you're working is my
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shift from 8:00 in the morning till 5:00
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o'clock at night or is my shift from 3
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o'clock in the afternoon till 10 o'clock
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in the evening what is my shift then
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they will tell you about your paycheck
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which is the cheque that you receive to
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be paid for the job that you are doing
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and what your pay date is so you know
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what day it is that you're getting paid
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now some other terms before we leave
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that I want to make sure you know are
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let go and laid off vs. fired or
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terminated so when you are let go of a
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job or laid off from a job that means
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that they have decided that they no
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longer need your position and they're
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going to have to get rid of it or maybe
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there's been a budget cut and they've
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lost some money and they have to somehow
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figure out which employees to keep and
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which employees to let go more often
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than not when you are let go or laid off
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from a position it doesn't have anything
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to do with you and your performance or
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your skill set or how you're doing at
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your job it's truly something that they
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have to do for the greater good of their
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business however if you are fired or
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terminated that means that they have
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decided
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to let you go based off of something
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that you have done if you are fired from
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a position that means that you have
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upset them in such a way or you have not
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done your job well and they will be
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replacing you they have chosen to get
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rid of you entirely to replace you with
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somebody else in that position because
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they are unhappy with the results so
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they can fire you
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and if you decide I don't want to do
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this job anymore then what you do is you
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hand in your notice when you hand in
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notice you are letting them know I as of
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this date will no longer be employed
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with this company I will not be doing
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this position any longer I am handing in
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my notice and then you become unemployed
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that means that you don't have a job you
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are unemployed and looking for work and
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in the United States if you are a
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citizen and have worked somewhere for a
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long time and you get let go or laid off
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there is a business that works to help
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you if you are unemployed to give you
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money until you can get another job I
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hope that all of this has taught you a
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bit about the vocabulary and what we use
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for jobs and careers I am excited to be
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able to teach with you again and I look
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