This lesson gives you the vocabulary for the French-language job search: writing a cover letter and a CV, replying to a job posting, applying for a position, and getting through a job interview.
| a job interview | un entretien d'embauche |
In Canada, most job interviews are conducted with the formal vous, even for junior positions, so this lesson's interview-register sentences use vouvoiement throughout. Practise them in that register — it is how a TEF Canada or TCF Canada speaking-task interviewer addresses you, and how a real Canadian employer will address you too.
This vocabulary shows up across several exam tasks: TCF speaking tasks about giving an opinion or gathering information often draw on job-market themes, and the TEF and TCF writing and synthesis tasks regularly use unemployment, career change, and hiring practices as debate topics. It is just as useful once you land: most Canadian job applications still ask for a lettre de motivation and a CV, and settlement and employment services frequently use terms like stagiaire, PME, and secteur d'activité when helping newcomers plan a job search.
The lesson also covers the vocabulary of unemployment (le chômage) and career change (se reconvertir), both common topics in Canadian settlement services and in exam prompts about the labour market. Note that poser sa candidature and postuler à un emploi are near-synonyms for "to apply": the first emphasizes formally submitting your candidacy, the second is the everyday verb for applying to a specific job.
