When I produced and hosted DINERS for Connecticut Public Television (CPTV) and wrote Classic Diners of Connecticut for The History Press, I immersed myself in diner lingo, the light-hearted, tongue-in-cheek and even sometimes risqué phrases could be heard in wide use in busy diners during the 1920’s continuing on well into the 1970’s. Diner lingo was a spontaneously developed mnemonic means of making orders easier to hear and remember above the conversational din of the busy diner.
But, did you know that the career marketplace has a language all its own, beyond such terms as resume, cover letter, LinkedIn Profile, and job application? See how many are familiar to you:
401(k)
Adoptive Leave
Agency Worker
Annual Leave
Applicant Tracking System (ATS)
Apprenticeship
Background Check
Balanced Scorecard
Behavioral Interview Questions
Benefit-in-Kind
Benefits
Blue-collar
Branding Statement
Business Casual
Career
Career Break
Career Change
Career Fair
Carer’s Leave
Casual Worker
Code of Practice
Collective Agreements
Comparator
Compensation
Compensation Package
Constructive Dismissal
Contact Information
Continuity of Employment
Contract Employee
Contract of Employment
Corporate Culture
Cover Letter
Curriculum Vitae (CV)
Deductions
Dependant
Disciplinary Procedure
Discrimination
Dismissal
Duty of Care
Elevator Pitch
Employability
Employment Contract
Employment Detail Summary (Formerly P60)
Employment Gap
Employment Permit
Employment Regulation Order (ERO)
Employment Website
Entrepreneur
Experience
Externship
Family Leave
Fixed-Term Contract
Follow-up
Force Majeure Leave
Format (File)
Format (Resume)
Freedom of Information (FOI)
Freelancer
Full-Time
Functional Resume
General Employment Permit
Graduate School
Gray-Collar
Green-Collar
Gross Income
Hard Skills
Hiring Manager
Human Resources (HR)
I-9 Form
Informational Interview
Internship
Interview
Job Application
Job Board
Job Fair
Job Market
Job Requirements
Job Shadow
Job Sharing
Jobseeker
Joint Labor Committees (JLCs)
Keywords
Lateral Hiring
Layoff
Leadership Style
Leave
Maternity Leave
Migrant Worker
Minimum Wage
Net Income
Networking
Night Work
Notice
Offer letter
Onboarding
Online Portfolio
Online Presence
Open Enrollment (Benefits)
Open-Ended Contract
Organization of Working Time Act 1997
Outsourcing
Overtime
Paid Time Off (PTO)
Parental Leave
Parent’s Leave
Part-Time
PAYE
Penalisation
Pension
Pension A
Phone Interview
Pink-Collar
Portfolio
Pounding the Pavement
Power Words
PPS Number
Probationary Period
Professional Dress
Promotion
PRSA
PRSI
Purple Squirrel
Recruiter
Red-Collar
Redundancy
References
Registered Employment Agreement (REA)
Résumé
Reverse-Chronological
Roth IRA
Salary
Salary Negotiation
Sectoral Employment Order (SEO)
Sexual harassment
Shadowing
Short Time
Situational Interview Questions
Skills-Based Resume
Soft Skills
Specified Purpose Contract
STAR Method
Startup
STEM
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