Matching Pairs Career ladderOnline version vocabulary linguahouse by Sofia Pelle 1 self-employed (adj.) 2 lay off (n) 3 placement (n) 4 sack (v) 5 headhunt (v) 6 commission (n) 7 retirement (n) 8 resignation (n) 9 promotion (n) money made as a percentage of the total items sold a period of time where you do not work because you have reached a certain age a job done, usually as part of an educational course, to learn about a business find someone who is working in another company to work for a different company, usually at a senior level tell someone that they no longer have a job, usually because they have done something wrong the act of giving someone a job with more responsibility and more pay the act of officially saying you no longer want to work for a company no longer having a job because there was not enough work for you to do making money for yourself and not being employed by a company