Employment Study Guide Crossword Puzzle- PM Int./Adv.

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apply to make a formal request, usually written, for something such as a job, a place at a university, or permission to do something appropriate (adj.) correct or suitable for a particular time, situation, or purpose ≠ inappropriate: (verb) to take something for yourself when you do not have the right to do this; steal: to take something, especially money, to use for a particular purpose ≠ misappropriate attire clothes availability the state of being able to be used, bought, or found: the state of being able to do something because you have enough time dress code the rules set up at a company that state what an employee can and can not wear at work entrepreneur someone who starts a new business or arranges business deals in order to make a profit/money, often in a way that involves financial risks gross salary the money, wages, or pay, that you receive as payment from the organization you work for, before tax has been taken from it ≠ net salary hire to employ someone to do a particular job industrious someone who is industrious works hard = hard-working; always working very hard ingenuity skill at inventing things and thinking of new ideas innovative an innovative idea or way of doing something is new, different, and better than those that existed before; using clever new ideas and methods interview (noun) a formal meeting at which someone is asked questions in order to find out whether they are suitable for a job, course of study etc.: (verb) to ask someone questions during an interview invention a useful machine, tool, instrument etc. that has been invented; the act of inventing something; a story, explanation etc. that is not true; the ability to think of new and clever ideas minimum wage the lowest amount of money that an employer can legally pay to a worker per hour of work: as of January 1, 2018, the minimum wage in Ohio is $8.30 per hour for non-tipped workers and $4.15 (tip amount plus this must equal $8.15) for tipped workers résumé a short written account, or summary, of your education and your previous jobs that you send to an employer when you are looking for a new job: Curriculum vitae, or CV retirement when you stop working, usually because of your age, usually 65 years old: the period after you have stopped work trainee person being trained for a job e.g. a trainee salesman unemployment benefits money paid regularly by the government to people who have no job: unemployment compensation vacancy a position to be filled in a company or firm: job opening workers' compensation a form of insurance providing wage replacement and medical benefits to employees injured in the course of employment in exchange for mandatory relinquishment of the employee's right to sue their employer for negligence: money paid to an employee by an employer's insurers because the employee has been harmed in some way, for example in an accident at work; workers' comp