Matching Pairs You are hired - vocabularyOnline version Vocabulary for British council video activity by Alison Oliveira 1 to let someone go 2 An ad 3 a degree 4 hard skills 5 Soft skills 6 The last straw 7 Vision 8 a track record A bad action on result in a series of bad ones that leads to a negative result. to fire someone a qualification students get when they finish university Skills like leadership, communication and empathy. someone's past performance or work history a public notice, usually to sell something or to tell people that a company is looking for new workers; short form of 'an advertisement' the ability to see clearly what you or a company can achieve in the future Skills that involve knowing how to do something, like computer skills, sales skills and so on.