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:

Part 1:

full time	Show le temps plein
home working	Show le travail à domicile
hybrid remote working	Show le télétravail hybride
job advertisement	Show une annonce emploi
job details	Show les détails du poste

Part 2:

job title	Show un intitulé de poste
location	Show le lieu
part time	Show le temps partial
remote working	Show le télétravail
salary	Show le salaire

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!

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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