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um all right so we are going to teach you some formal vocab that you can
use in especially writing task two that relates to uh work and jobs and the reason
reason we're doing this is because we got a great uh comment on our YouTube channel
yeah so this was Abhishek Kalia who said good job kindly yeah hopefully I said kindly make
a video on job essays vocabulary there's a good chance this student got a task 2 question about
jobs or employment or just potentially has seen them online and knows like okay this is a common
topic and they are right right this comes up a lot on task two you need high level vocabulary
a king part three and you know like even writing task one both academic in general because there
are a number of Task 1 academic graphs about employment or types of employment among ages
or various countries or sectors of society educational backgrounds what type of work
they end up in you know and then also for the general training letter you could be asked to
write a letter to your boss or a job recruiter or something like that so today's vocab is so useful
um I do want to point out though that this subscriber left this comment on another fantastic
vocab episode we did indulge in this IELTS food vocabulary so go to IELTS energy TV on YouTube
and look up IELTS food vocabulary and watch that one as well all right so we
came up with an amazing list for you guys today I'm excited this vocab is fantastic
yes awesome so first of all our first idiom here kind of an expression is to climb the corporate
ladder so this would be if your task 2 essay is related to how you know companies can make it
easier for their employees to be successful possibly or you know anything just about
um trying to improve your position at work this is an expression we use that just means to get
promoted to sort of you know get the the next better job at work we say climb the corporate
ladder it's not a physical ladder right it's this metaphorical um Improvement of a job yeah so yeah
just get a better position in the same company right and notice that it is corporate ladder
so there are questions on IELTS like comparing working for small companies versus large companies
um And discussing that could be useful I think it's sometimes easier to get promoted in small
companies as compared to climbing the corporate ladder uh just being one among a sea of employees
um and also you could use it tongue-in-cheek right if you were answering a speaking part one question
for example about your job you could say well to be honest um I I don't really want to try and
climb the corporate ladder I'm not interested in that I want to do work that is Meaningful and I'm
honestly looking for a different job right now or something like that such a good point right this
is useful everywhere on the IELTS exam because you know where whether you're talking about it
being something that actually exists or something you don't care about there's so many different
questions that could be useful on totally um and then here is and it's the vocab phrase but it's
also an idea that you can talk about in speaking part three or writing task two and that is the
wage Gap now I think the the most common way we use this would be discussing the wage gap between
um like white collar and blue collar jobs but these days I guess we always use it to discuss
the wage gap between men and women as well so any like any big differences between big Society
groups yeah um people get paid differently that's all it is exactly right so this could come up lots
of different places just like you said this could come up in a personal question about part one
where you can express your own frustration about wage Gap issues you've seen or definitely part
three task two where you are describing anything about companies corporations the way they work
often your example your reasons could be the existence of a wage Gap either for gender or for
socioeconomic classes like you said I think also something I've seen in the news more and more is
discussing the wage gap between um CEOs like the ones at the top and like the grunts or like the
normal employees like it's ridiculous like the Gap is like millions of dollars right you know people
are always talking about um how much CEOs make when they leave the company even if they're fired
because they you know did something horrible they leave the company and they get a buyout package of
millions of dollars I mean talk about the wage Gap what if a normal employee gets fired what do they
get like zilch so no it's really mind-boggling like one percent of the population receives
like 99 of the income there's such disparity which just means like a huge difference a huge
gap that's also a very high level word for you guys to say on task two part three instead of
Gap you can say disparity which means the same thing but it's band nine all right awesome so
um to continue with the conversation about uh comparing differences in gender right not only
do we discuss the wage Gap but we also use this term glass ceiling I I love this term
um how would you define it Aubry yeah so it's the idea that there's no limit to what you could your
potential right so if you hit a glass ceiling it sort of means I can't go anywhere further
here right like you don't have any potential to be promoted to to have your job be improved we
say we're hitting a glass ceiling and then we can also say there is no glass ceiling for this person
if there's um if someone has that potential so yeah exactly the the reason that there exists a
glass ceiling is not Merit based it means it's not because of the good job or bad job you did
it's because of something else that you can't control like being a woman or being um not white
or being a non-native English speaker for example so these are these are things outside your actual
work capabilities right so that's a glass ceiling you'd be like one can't deny that a glass ceiling
exists for women in fields of science or fields of medicine or one cannot deny a glass ceiling
exists for non-native speakers in uh many fields in America or New Zealand or Canada or whatever
yes and we often will use the word shatter to talk about the need to end this right it will
say we need to shatter this glass ceiling which is an interesting image because of course we're not
talking about literal glass ceilings but if you imagine being able to get rid of that if it were a
physical thing shatter is when glass explodes into a million pieces so that would be an interesting
thing to talk about in part three or task two is the need to change this oh I love it what a
great problem solution essay I feel like this uh vocab would be useful in a lot of different
problem solution essays like shatter the glass ceiling how do we do that oh so good all right
um so the the last phrase that we want to talk about today
um and it does have a little bit of informal vocab but I'll explain that right now so the
phrase is the necessity of side hustles and this goes hand in hand with the phrase gig economy so a
side hustle it's a little informal but I think it is idiomatic and acceptable in writing task two so
I recommend these phrases for anywhere on IELTS now um side hustles are necessary right because
the cost of living has increased and is increasing dramatically um while the wages are not keeping
Pace with inflation so everybody needs a side jobs that means extra jobs on the side of your normal
one to make money so those are side hustles I have I have a few side hustles I substitute teach
in public schools I write textbooks and those are my side hustles right now yeah it's pretty
um vital for a teacher there are lots of jobs at about this level where just like you said
Jessica all the costs of everything are going up but teachers wages haven't really been you know
increasing exponentially so I saw this on Tick Tock there's a girl who got a side hustle at
Costco so she's also teaching but then she does these really interesting cost comparisons about
what a better job it is to work at Costco better benefits like you know yeah he's treating you
better whatever it is it's so fascinating to think about and this really would make very interesting
speaking questions and really add great examples and details ideas to your task two essays to be
able to talk about the need because this is again with the wage cap with the inflation right with
all of these reasons that create this need for the side hustle exactly and everybody needing side
hustles that is what we call the gig economy that is why the gig economy exists so the gig economy
just means all of these various gigs or side jobs that people are using sometimes as their main job
because they can't find other work they'll just like piece together all of these little side
jobs like being a delivery driver for an app or a lot of different things for apps right yes right
yeah totally so those are all uh part of the gig economy um Uber right Lyft all of those things
any part-time jobs involving an app is is part of the gig economy exactly oh such interesting
vocabulary this is going to be extremely useful for so many places on IELTS I think it's really
important to keep in mind how these can be adjusted to answer part one questions part two
part three anywhere where work jobs earning money comes up you're likely to get questions about
that and a lot of these could be used to really boost those vocabulary scores for sure for sure
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