Vocabulary for IELTS (Topic: Work and Career)

• A field (of work): an area or type of career
• Motivated about: wanting to do well in
• Internship: working for a short time, sometimes unpaid
• Apprenticeship: hands-on, or practical work to learn a job
• Hands-on: getting involved and doing everything to help
• Innovative small companies: with new, creative ideas
• Cutting edge: the best new technology
• Diagnose: to find out what is wrong
• Pediatrics: specialist child medicine (also spelled pediatrics)
• Routine checkups: a regular (not urgent) visit to the doctors
• Huge appreciation: gratefulness and gratitude
• Follow-up care: an appointment after an operation or illness
• Lucrative: money-making or profitable
• Highly merited: well deserved
• Career ladder: moving up through promotions to the top of the company
• Pension scheme: money for retirement
• Job security: knowing you can keep your job/job safety
• Start-up community: new small businesses sometimes internet-based