--- title: Finding a job and getting on — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Finding a job and getting on», a lesson of the adult life course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Getting a job is a bit like trying out for a team: you send in your details, you go for a try-out, and often someone else gets picked. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/3-finding-a-job-and-getting-on/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/) / Finding a job and getting on # Finding a job and getting on Lesson 3 of the adult life course of Mova's primary school: 18 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/adult-life/3-finding-a-job-and-getting-on/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/3-finding-a-job-and-getting-on/0/) — Getting a job is a bit like trying out for a team: you send in your details, you go for a try-out, and often someone else gets picked. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/3-finding-a-job-and-getting-on/1/) — Grown-ups write a CV, send applications, go to interviews, wait on probation in a new job, and later hope for a pay rise or a promotion. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/3-finding-a-job-and-getting-on/2/) — Picture a flat in Toronto: every evening Mum sits at the laptop sending off applications, gets "no" after "no", and then one Tuesday bursts through the door shouting "I got it!" while the whole family cheers. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/3-finding-a-job-and-getting-on/3/) — Being turned down is normal for everyone, and being picked is the reward for trying again and again. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/3-finding-a-job-and-getting-on/4/) — At the other end of working life comes retirement, when people stop paid work for good. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/3-finding-a-job-and-getting-on/5/) — Job hunting means searching adverts and sending applications, often dozens before getting anywhere; many get no reply at all. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/3-finding-a-job-and-getting-on/6/) — A CV is a page or two listing someone's education, jobs and skills; Americans call it a résumé. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/3-finding-a-job-and-getting-on/7/) — Employers often glance at a CV for less than a minute, so grown-ups fuss over every word. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/3-finding-a-job-and-getting-on/8/) — A job interview is a meeting where an employer asks questions to decide whom to hire; several people usually compete for one job. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/3-finding-a-job-and-getting-on/9/) — "They went with someone with more experience" is the polite way of saying someone didn't get the job; often nothing was wrong with them. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/3-finding-a-job-and-getting-on/10/) — A promotion is a move up to a more senior job in the same organisation, usually with more responsibility and more pay. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/3-finding-a-job-and-getting-on/12/) — A pay rise is an increase in pay; some come each year, others have to be asked for. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/3-finding-a-job-and-getting-on/13/) — If prices rise and pay doesn't, a person is really getting poorer each year. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/3-finding-a-job-and-getting-on/14/) — Probation at work is a trial period, often three or six months, when the worker and employer see if the job fits; it has nothing to do with crime. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/3-finding-a-job-and-getting-on/15/) — A reference is a short message from a past employer or teacher saying the person was reliable; it is why grown-ups try to leave jobs politely. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/3-finding-a-job-and-getting-on/16/) — Retiring means stopping paid work for good, usually in your sixties, and living on a pension and savings. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/3-finding-a-job-and-getting-on/17/) — Some retired people miss the routine, their workmates and the feeling of being useful. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/3-finding-a-job-and-getting-on/18/) — Starting a new job means learning new systems, names and rules all at once, so people come home tired. - ← previous: [Shifts, nights and other ways of working](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/2-shifts-nights-and-other-ways-of-working/) - next →: [When work goes wrong](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/4-when-work-goes-wrong/) - ↑ back to [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/)