English for Human Resources VV 43 - HR Management (1) | Business English Vocabulary

0:00 You're watching video vocab by business English pod dot-com. in this lesson we'll

0:10 look at vocabulary related to human resources or HR. people who work in HR think about a company's

0:19 headcount and how to recruit new employees or headhunt people from other companies.

0:25 We'll look at ideas such as job descriptions as well as compensation and benefits and how

0:33 these differ from incentives human resources. HR human resources HR human resources deals with the

0:50 management of a company's employees HR includes hiring training employee development pay and

1:00 benefits if you have any questions about your benefits or vacation please talk to our office

1:08 HR manager headcount head count the number of people employed in a company or organization is

1:23 called the headcount in HR we often talk about increasing reducing or cutting the

1:33 headcount reducing our headcount by 15 people has allowed us to cut our payroll expense by 25% you

1:46 to recruit to recruit recruiting is the process of attracting finding

1:56 and selecting new employees recruiters must match qualified people with the

2:04 right jobs through screening and interviews rather than hiring experienced employees on

2:11 high salaries we prefer to recruit and train young college graduates

2:21 to headhunt to headhunt instead of hiring people who apply for a job a company may

2:32 headhunt them from other organizations a headhunters job is to find qualified

2:39 employees to fill positions I worked at KPMG for ten years but recently I was headhunted

2:49 for an executive position at Deloitte Job Description Job Description a job

3:02 description lists the tasks responsibilities and qualifications of a job you should read the Job

3:11 Description carefully before your interview so you can match your skills to the position you

3:20 compensation compensation the money a company pays its employees in salary wages

3:32 or bonuses is called compensation many companies have an organized

3:39 compensation structure that links pay to performance and the length of employment

3:47 I enjoy my job but the compensation isn't really good enough to live in a city like New York

3:59 benefits benefits benefits are the compensation given to employees in

4:09 addition to salary or wages benefits may include vacation time insurance plans and pension plans

4:19 recent changes to our employee benefits package include a new dental plan and extended holidays

4:32 incentives incentives incentives differ from benefits as they are usually tied

4:43 to specific performance goals such as meeting a sales target incentives may

4:51 include financial bonuses company funded trips or conferences sales teams are

5:00 often offered incentives such as bonuses for meeting or exceeding sales targets

5:06 now it's your turn to practice some of the words we've looked at in this lesson in a moment you'll

5:18 hear a series of sentences with a word replaced with a beep repeat each sentence including the

5:25 missing word for example if you hear with so many new contracts we need to increase our by

5:34 10 people you can say with so many new contracts we need to increase our headcount by 10 people

5:49 we'll provide the correct answer after each question ready let's give it a go

5:56 instead of raising salaries why don't we improve our package

6:08 answer instead of raising salaries why don't we improve our benefits package you

6:19 our competitors are angry because we always their best engineers

6:25 answer our competitors are angry because we always had hunt their

6:33 best engineers workers can get frustrated when asked to do things outside their job

6:49 answer workers can get frustrated when asked to do things outside their job description

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