Japanese Vocabulary about Work
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Japanese Vocabulary about Work
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Work （仕事：しごと）
There are two main words for "to work"
1. 働（はたら）く: to work, to labour → the particle used with 働く is で
→ 来月（らいげつ）、僕（ぼく）は日本で働きます。Next month I will work in Japan.
2．勤（つと）める: to work (for) → the particle used with 勤める is に
→ 来週からトヨタ自動車（じどうしゃ）の本社（ほんしゃ）に勤める｡
The word for going in to work (to the company) is: 出勤（しゅっきん）する。
→ 今週(こんしゅう)の土曜日（どようび）、私は出勤（しゅっきん）しなければならない。This Saturday I have to go in to work.
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Industry: 業種(ぎょうしゅ)
Occupation: 職業（しょくぎょう）
欠勤（けっきん）: absence from work (not going in to the company)
通勤（つうきん）: commuting → 毎日、電車で1時間ぐらい通勤しています。Every day I commute about an hour by train.
辞職（じしょく）: resignation from a post
退職（たいしょく）: leaving a job
休（やす）み：公休（こうきゅう）: statutory weekly days off (for example Saturday and Sunday)
打刻（だこく）する: to clock in
休憩（きゅうけい）: break, rest
休眠（きゅうみん）: hibernation for animals; for a factory, a temporary shutdown
リストラ: downsizing
解雇（かいこ）する：首にする、解職（かいしょく）する、免職（めんしょく）する、解任（かいにん）する、雇用契約（こようけいやく）を解除（かいじょ）する: to dismiss, to terminate a contract.
雇用(こよう)する: 雇（やと）う to take on, to employ
募集（ぼしゅう）: to advertise a vacancy. 募集情報（ぼしゅうじょうほう）recruitment information.
就活（しゅうかつ）する: job hunting by students. In Japan they often start this in their second year.
青田買い（あおたがい）: literally "buying the green field" — a company snapping up an outstanding student while they are still at school, so they start work as soon as they graduate.
内定（ないてい）: an unofficial job offer, made without the candidate going through a recruitment exam.
転勤（てんきん）する: to be transferred (to another post).
異動（いどう）する: to be transferred. → 人事異動（じんじいどう）: staff reshuffle.
(Changing jobs and being transferred differ: changing jobs may mean moving to another industry or another company altogether, while a transfer means moving from one position or site to another within the same company — head office to a branch, for instance — while staying with that employer.)
生業（なりわい）: livelihood.
社会人（しゃかいじん）: a working adult, someone out in the world earning a living.
出世（しゅっせ）する: to get on in life, to rise in social standing.
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