Employment

Part-Time Job

A part-time contract is a form of employment that carries fewer hours per week than a full-time job.

References

A reference is a person who is willing to talk to potential employers about your job skills, abilities, background, and general character—hopefully in a positive light. Potential employers usually contact references by phone or email.

Resume

A resume is a written compilation of your education, work experience, credentials, and accomplishments that is used to apply for jobs.

Job application

An application for employment, job application, or application form

Qualification

a quality or accomplishment that makes someone suitable for a particular job or activity.

Cover letter

Cover letters are one page documents that you send with your resume when applying for a job.

Full-Time Job

Full-time employment is employment in which a person works a minimum number of hours defined as such by his/her employer.

Human resources department

Human Resource Management (HRM) is the term used to describe formal systems devised for the management of people within an organization.

Job duties

Job duties are tasks you must do on a job. They are the responsibilities you have for a particular job.

Educational Experience

Learning experience refers to any interaction, course, program, or other experience in which learning takes place, whether it occurs in traditional academic settings (schools, classrooms) or nontraditional settings (outside-of-school locations, outdoor environments), or whether it includes traditional educational

Hiring manager

The hiring manager is the employee who requested a new position to be filled.

Volunteer experience

Volunteering is generally considered an altruistic activity where an individual or group provides services for no financial gain "to benefit another person, group or organization".

Work experience

Work experience is any experience that a person gains while working in a specific field or occupation, but the expression is widely used to mean a type of volunteer work that is commonly intended for young people — often students — to get a feel for professional working environments.

Felony

a crime, typically one involving violence, regarded as more serious than a misdemeanor, and usually punishable by imprisonment for more than one year or by death.

Wages

a fixed regular payment, typically paid on a daily or weekly basis, made by an employer to an employee, especially to a manual or unskilled worker.

Salary

a fixed regular payment, typically paid on a monthly or biweekly basis but often expressed as an annual sum, made by an employer to an employee, especially a professional or white-collar worker.

Occupation/Position

a job or profession.

Misdemeanor

a minor wrongdoing

Employee

a person employed for wages or salary, especially at nonexecutive level.

Employer

a person or organization that employs people.

Median hourly earnings

describes a rate an employer agrees to pay a worker per hour worked, such as $12 per hour or $17.50 per hour.

Wage gap

is the average difference between a man's and a woman's wages or salaries.

Martial status

person's state of being single, married, separated, divorced, or widowed.

Workforce

the people engaged in or available for work, either in a country or area or in a particular company or industry.

Internship/Intern

the position of a student or trainee who works in an organization, sometimes without pay, in order to gain work experience or satisfy requirements for a qualification.