Business French – What Common Terms Are Used in French Job Adverts?
Explore and understand the vocabulary found in job advertisements.
Watch the video as many times as you need, until you feel you can give the French translations as we go!
Now we can see what we’ve learned. Look at the English and see if you can provide the French for the following:
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Part 2:
How To Search for a Post on a French Website
When searching for a job, you will want to narrow down your search based on job titles, locations or keywords. What does this look like on a French website?
Take a quick look at the screenshot below and see what job titles you can find.
Can you find the French term for ‘keyword?’
There are also three brand names in this example – can you spot them?
Answers below!
What job titles are there?
What is the French for ‘keyword?’
What are the three brands?
Vocabulary recap:
| financial controller | le contrôleur de gestion |
| job adverts | les offres d’emploi |
| job title | un intitulé de poste |
| keyword, search term | le mot-clé |
| mechanical engineer | un ingénieur mécanique |
| order picker | le préparateur de commandes |
| remote working | le télétravail |
| student job | le job étudiant |
Reading French job advertisements
Here are some examples of job advertisements from the web. Can you translate the job titles from the vocabulary learnt so far?
You’ll often see ‘F/H’ or ‘H/F’ after the job title, indicating homme or femme.
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