You're watching video vocab by business English pod dot-com. in this lesson we'll
look at vocabulary related to human resources or HR. people who work in HR think about a company's
headcount and how to recruit new employees or headhunt people from other companies.
We'll look at ideas such as job descriptions as well as compensation and benefits and how
these differ from incentives human resources. HR human resources HR human resources deals with the
management of a company's employees HR includes hiring training employee development pay and
benefits if you have any questions about your benefits or vacation please talk to our office
HR manager headcount head count the number of people employed in a company or organization is
called the headcount in HR we often talk about increasing reducing or cutting the
headcount reducing our headcount by 15 people has allowed us to cut our payroll expense by 25% you
to recruit to recruit recruiting is the process of attracting finding
and selecting new employees recruiters must match qualified people with the
right jobs through screening and interviews rather than hiring experienced employees on
high salaries we prefer to recruit and train young college graduates
to headhunt to headhunt instead of hiring people who apply for a job a company may
headhunt them from other organizations a headhunters job is to find qualified
employees to fill positions I worked at KPMG for ten years but recently I was headhunted
for an executive position at Deloitte Job Description Job Description a job
description lists the tasks responsibilities and qualifications of a job you should read the Job
Description carefully before your interview so you can match your skills to the position you
compensation compensation the money a company pays its employees in salary wages
or bonuses is called compensation many companies have an organized
compensation structure that links pay to performance and the length of employment
I enjoy my job but the compensation isn't really good enough to live in a city like New York
benefits benefits benefits are the compensation given to employees in
addition to salary or wages benefits may include vacation time insurance plans and pension plans
recent changes to our employee benefits package include a new dental plan and extended holidays
incentives incentives incentives differ from benefits as they are usually tied
to specific performance goals such as meeting a sales target incentives may
include financial bonuses company funded trips or conferences sales teams are
often offered incentives such as bonuses for meeting or exceeding sales targets
now it's your turn to practice some of the words we've looked at in this lesson in a moment you'll
hear a series of sentences with a word replaced with a beep repeat each sentence including the
missing word for example if you hear with so many new contracts we need to increase our by
10 people you can say with so many new contracts we need to increase our headcount by 10 people
we'll provide the correct answer after each question ready let's give it a go
instead of raising salaries why don't we improve our package
answer instead of raising salaries why don't we improve our benefits package you
our competitors are angry because we always their best engineers
answer our competitors are angry because we always had hunt their
best engineers workers can get frustrated when asked to do things outside their job
answer workers can get frustrated when asked to do things outside their job description
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