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Hire hurdles-Is big tech's red-hot jobs market about to cool?

Related words:

1. red-hot 火热的 red favorite 夺冠热门
2. technie n 技术人员
3. perk n (工资以外的）福利待遇，津贴 e.g. One of the perks of being a student is cheap travel.
4. slide n 下滑，下跌
5. overstaffed adj 人员冗余
6. memo 公司备忘录
7. big tech names 科技大厂
8. put/ impose a freeze on new hires 冻结新人员招聘
9. cyber 网络的 cyber-sercurity 网络安全 cyber attacks 网络攻击 cyber-bullying 网络霸凌
10. list v 使上市 listing 上市 be listed = go public 公司上市 synonym：float 首次发行股票 e.g. The company will be floated on he stockmarket next year.
11. redundancy n (因劳动力过剩）解雇，失业 e.g.1 The factory's workers face redundancy. 工厂的工人面临失业。e.g.2 redundancy payment 遣散费 e.g.3 Eight permanent staff were made redundant.
12. 员工的表述: workforce = staff 全体的从业人员 workers = employees = staff members 具体的人员
13. sack v 解雇 synonyms：fire = be dimissed = be made redundant
14. downturn n （经济、商业活动）回落，下降趋势 e.g. econmic downturn 经济的衰退
15. jump ship 跳槽，离职 synoyms: swith jobs = shuffle to new careers or companies = job-hopping = leave(v)
16. shield sb/ sth from sb/ sth = prevent sb/ sth from sb/ sth e.g. import tariffs(进口关税） that sheild firms from foreign competition
17. bust n 经济萧条（不景气）时期 opposite boom
18. burst/ prick sb's bubble 戳破肥皂泡，幻想破裂
19. crash 崩盘，暴雷 e.g. The crash will have lasting reverberations(回想）.

Vocabulary:

1. hurdle = obstacle 困难 overcome/ clear/ get over a hurdle 克服困难
2. compare notes 交流 compare notes with sb on something
3. anoymous adj 匿名的 annoymous tip 匿名举报
4. loom v (问题或困难）逼近，隐现 the looming threat of recession 日益迫近的经济衰退的威胁
5. commontion n 混乱，喧闹，骚乱 They heard a commotion downstairs.
6. prolonged adj 持续很久的 a prolonged drought.
7. median n 中位数， mean 平均数
8. grocery-delivery app 买菜软件 buy/ do groceries 去买菜

Nice sentence:

1. (裁员潮下，人才仍然炙手可热）Demand for the most prized skills, such as understanding of advanced data science, is so high that people who posses them will be sought out even in a downturn. At big tech companies, talented employees, who hint that they want to jump ship, are still receiving generous counter-offers. Miscrosoft said it was raising its budget for salary increase for certain workers.
2. As America's technology giants grapple with supply-chain uncertainties, a looming recession and sliding share prices, this year big tech names worth a combined $3.4 trillion have announced hiring freezes or firings.

• (企业长期扩招）The commotion comes after a prolonged boom in tech jobs. During the 2010s, the number of positions in America’s tech industry increased by 4.4% a year on average, the rate of the overall economy. Much of the jobs growth came from startups and newly listed companies. But tech giants, too, were adding plenty of employees. The ranks at Microsoft and Alphabet swelled by 11% and 16%, respectively. That compares with a median of 3% for American's largest companies in other industries.
• （疫情加速转变）The pandemic turbocharged the trend. Work, leisure and shopping online, boosting demand for digital services.
• （企业重视云端和网络安全）Demand for tech skills also surged outside the sector-as companies uploaded their cooperations to the cloud, and boosted cyber-security, making the market even tighter.

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