Job interview Word Search

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resume

Resume is French for summed up, and its career sense of a working life on paper only appeared in the 1940s.

candidate

Office seekers in ancient Rome wore chalk-whitened togas, so candidatus, meaning white robed, became our word for a job hopeful.

employer

Employ and imply are the same word underneath: both come from Latin implicare, meaning to fold in or involve.

salary

Salary traces to the Latin salarium, an allowance whose name grew from sal, the Latin word for salt.

handshake

A 2008 study put 98 students through mock interviews and found handshake quality predicted the interviewers' hiring recommendations.

reference

Refer literally means to carry back, and reference only came to mean a testimonial about a person in 1895.

punctual

Punctual once meant having a sharp point, and only in the 1670s did it settle into meaning prompt.

vacancy

Vacancy, vacation and vacuum all grow from the Latin vacare, to be empty, so a vacancy is an empty seat.

experience

Experience, experiment and expert all come from Latin experiri, to try or test, so experience is simply things tried.

confidence

Confidence comes from the Latin confidere, to trust fully, and shares its root with faith and fidelity.

application

Apply comes from Latin applicare, to fold toward or attach, and it only gained its job-seeking sense in 1851.

interview

Interview comes from the French entrevue, to see each other, a reminder that both sides are sizing each other up.

qualification

Qualify and quality share the Latin root qualis, of what kind, so a qualification says what kind of worker you are.

probation

Probation, prove and probe all come from Latin probare, to test, and probation already meant a trial period in the 1400s.

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