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