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Would jargon put you off applying for a job?
Business in the Community, a charity which works with businesses to tackle key issues facing society, asked young people to rate entry level job adverts from 65 companies. More than half of the adverts did not have a clear job description.
Reporter Andrew Bomford asked Lauren Roberts, 20 and Nicole Guttridge, 19 to decipher some of the terminology in a selection of job adverts.
(In case you were wondering, DOE means dependent on experience, EA is an executive assistant and a COO is a chief operating officer).
(Image: Writing. Credit: Getty Images).
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