grammar
work idioms
IT jobs, skills and qualities
online meeting
100

My parents are returning from Italy next Monday at 7 p.m. So this time next Monday I ... (met) them at the airport.

 will be meeting

100

selling a lot of goods very quickly

doing a road trade

100

A position responsible for the interpretation of business rules and delivering them to technical teams.
A business analyst spends a lot of time gathering relevant business requirements in the initial stages of an IT project.

BA (business analyst)

100

informal discussion - with colleagues at the coffee machine

chat

200

My father is repairing our car. We hope that by Sunday he ... (repair) it.

 will have repaired

200

become so successful at selling a product that almost no one else can sell it

cornered the market

200

An executive position responsible for internal processes and practices; normally has a stronger business administration background than technical background.
The CIO's work is often quite varied, ranging from managing a company's IT budget to overseeing staff outsourcing.

CIO (chief information officer)

200

among colleagues where as many ideas are produced as possible, but are then evaluated later

brainstorming

300


Susan ... (leave) the house before her husband comes home.

 won't have left

300

doing something very successfully

going great guns

300

An executive position responsible for all scientific and technological issues related to a company; normally has a strong technical and somewhat less strong management background.
The CEO decided to fire the CTO after the company's IT department lost a year of financial records due to poor backup procedures.

CTO (chief technical officer)

300

for example, to negotiate prices for an order

meeting with suppliers

400

The house ... (burn)for two hours when the firefighters finally arrive.

will have been burning

400

 been destroyed financially

gone to the wall

400

A person in charge of managing and maintaining relational databases and access rights.
The requirements for the DBA job position were: advanced SQL, performance tuning, and disaster recovery for ORACLE systems.

DBA (database administrator)

400

an official, formal meeting of a company's directors  

board meeting

500

She is not sure if she... (find) his telephone number in the telephone directory.

will find

500

 closing the business

shutting up shop

500

A position responsible for programming and optimizing databases.
The database developer spent three months refactoring the company database to obtain 3NF (third normal form)

 Database developer

500

for example, to discuss a contract

meeting with a customer