Focus 5 unit 5 Vocab

My main advantage is that I learn very quickly on the job; I can basically hit the __________ running.

I don’t want a job where I just slave _____ for ten or twelve hours a day doing something I don’t value.

Everyone else had already gone home, but I pressed _____ until I got the result I wanted.

Being late on the first day in a new job can s_______ your chances right at the beginning.

The company has been _____ a loss for two years now. It’s likely to go bankrupt soon.

My mum works o_________e nearly every day of the week – I hardly ever see her!

It’s nothing special, just an e__________y-level job, but you have to start somewhere, don’t you?

He works strictly on __________: he earns only a percentage of what he sells, with no fixed salary.

One of the aims of assertiveness training is to help people learn to stand up _____ themselves.

Do you believe financial in_____ are the best way to improve quality of work?

When I heard the company was sending me to New Zealand and covering all the e__________s, I couldn’t believe my luck.

He didn’t _____ the guts to oppose his boss, who was obviously unfair.

I didn’t study at all last week because of my birthday, so now I have to make _____ for lost time.

I’m doing an unpaid i__________p this year in the hope of getting a proper job after that.

In this kind of practical job no amount of education beats h__________s-on experience.

Our grandparents were usually able to l_____ a permanent job within a few years of graduating.

Ever since that foolish incident, the police have been _____ tabs on him.

It’s an unhealthy situation if you’re permanently so snowed _____ that you can’t take a day off.