Useful Business Expressions
This month we are looking at some typical words or expressions with the word “employ”. Listen and repeat the following expressions.
Expressions with “Employ”
- She is employed by a large multinational corporation.
- They only employ highly-skilled workers here.
- As production is up, we’ll have to look at employing more people.
- She’s highly-employable: she’s got a degree from Harvard, and she’s very hard-working.
- He’s unemployable – he is incapable of getting up in the morning and he hasn’t got any qualifications.
- How many employees are there here?
- Is there a high rate of employee satisfaction here?
- What’s the employee dropout rate here?
- What are employee-employer relations like here?
- What is this firm like as an employer?
- What’s the employment rate in your country?
- The unemployment rate has been falling for six months consecutively.
Business Dialogue
Now listen to this business English dialogue.
Sarah: Sarah speaking. Who’s calling?
Jim: Hi, it’s Jim. Hey, I was just going over your strategy report for next year and I had a few questions.
Sarah: Fire away.
Jim: Your predictions for the unemployment rate next year, where did you get them?
Sarah: Official statistics published by the government.
Jim: OK, so you calculate that we’re going to need to take on about 300 more employees next year. Why’s that?
Sarah: Production is up 200%. Do the figure work yourself. We can’t carry on like this.
Jim: You also predict poorer employee-employer relations and possible strike action…
Sarah: If we don’t address key concerns that have been repeatedly raised by our staff, there will be problems, yes?
Jim: OK, thanks Sarah. Just wanted to clear a few things up.
Sarah: No problem. Any time. Catch you later.
Jim: Yeah, bye.
GLOSSARY
is employed by exp
If you are employed by a company, you work for that company.
to employ v
If you “employ someone”, you give them a job.
highly-employable adj
A person who has many of the skills and qualifications that employers are looking for.
unemployable adj
A person who has no qualifications and no hope of getting a job.
an employee n
A person who works in a company.
employee dropout rate n
The speed at which people leave a company.
employee-employer relations n
The relationship between management and the workers.
the employment rate n
The number of people working.
the unemployment rate n
The number of people with no jobs.
for six months consecutively exp
Every month for six months.
fire away exp
Ask me questions.
to take on phrvb
To employ.
do the figure work yourself exp
You do the calculation.
to carry on phrvb
To continue.
strike action n
If workers take “strike action”, they stop working as a protest.
to address concerns exp
To think about things that are worrying people and to try to find a solution.
to clear up phrvb
To try to understand.
catch you later exp (informal)
See you later.
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