employment
Having a job
Employment is the state of having paid work, or the work itself: She found employment at a law firm.
It also refers to the act of using something: the employment of new teaching methods.
The term often appears in economic and policy contexts: employment rate, full employment, employment opportunities.
Paid position of employment
- professionTrained occupational field
- careerLifelong occupational pursuit
- vocationDedicated career path
- positionLocation or stance
work · trade · role · post · craft · calling · gig · appointment
State of achieved purpose
- callingStrongly felt purpose
- vocationDedicated career path
- meaningWhat something signifies
- purposeReason something exists
contribution · service · mission · dedication · satisfaction · achievement · passion · ambition
Complete weekly hours
- part-timeLimited work schedule
- telecommutingEmployment from afar
- freelanceSelf-employed project work
- seasonalRecurring at fixed intervals
temporary · permanent · casual · flextime · overtime · on-call · commission-based · salaried
Seeking new personnel
- vacancyUnoccupied space or position
- interviewFormal questioning session
- applicationFormal request document
- resumeCareer summary document
headhunting · onboarding · internship · apprenticeship · entry-level · probation · contract · referral
Lacking paid employment
- laid-offTerminated from employment
- redundancyNeedless duplication
- severanceTermination pay or disconnection
- firedTerminated from employment
dismissed · terminated · downsizing · furloughed · retrenchment · outsourced
job
Paid position of employment
- professionTrained occupational field
- careerLifelong occupational pursuit
- vocationDedicated career path
position · work · trade · role · post · craft · calling · gig · appointment · placement
fulfillment
State of achieved purpose
purpose · contribution · service · mission · dedication · satisfaction · achievement · passion · ambition · aspiration
full-time
Complete weekly hours
- part-timeLimited work schedule
- telecommutingEmployment from afar
- freelanceSelf-employed project work
seasonal · temporary · permanent · casual · flextime · overtime · on-call · commission-based · salaried · hourly
recruitment
Seeking new personnel
- vacancyUnoccupied space or position
- interviewFormal questioning session
- applicationFormal request document
resume · headhunting · onboarding · internship · apprenticeship · entry-level · probation · contract · referral · networking
jobless
Lacking paid employment
- laid-offTerminated from employment
- redundancyNeedless duplication
- severanceTermination pay or disconnection
fired · dismissed · terminated · downsizing · furloughed · retrenchment · outsourced
- workjob, 9 to 5, jobs, labor, profession
- economicssupply and demand, inflation, GDP, GNP, gross domestic product
- job marketjobs, job seekers, job search, job hunting, hiring
- laborlabor, labor union, work, labor force, laborers
- labourmanual labour, forced labour, child labour, labourer, toil
- living conditionshousing, income, healthcare access, education access, clean water
employmentunemployment
Being without paid work
joblessness · nonemployment · worklessness · redundancy · underemployment
employmentidleness
State of doing nothing
inactivity · leisure · unemployment · indolence · laziness
- employment securityProtection against losing work
- employment agencyService matching workers to positions
- overseas employmentJob in foreign country
- employment trendsShifts in job markets
- employment standardsLegal workplace minimums
- employment policyWorkforce management framework
unemployment, employments, underemployment, reemployment, preemployment, overemployment, employment contract, employment contracts, employment agency