One of the key topics in IELTS is work and employment. To help you out, here is a selection of useful words and phrases to discuss the topic. To help you understand and practise these words, you will also find examples of how the words are used.

Employ – an exercise in word formation

If you want to learn words well, it is important to learn different forms of them. Employ is one of the key words and it has several different forms – you need to be able to use them all if you want to write flexibly.

Job and work

Sometimes the trickiest words are very common words. You definitely need to be able to use both these words. One way to how to use them correctly is to learn phrases.

Career words

These words should come in useful when describing career paths.