Get a job means to be hired for a position. People use it when someone is taken on after job hunting and interviews. The position follows as, and the company follows at or in: get a job as a nurse, get a job at a bank.
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get a job + as + position; get a job + at/in + company; got (past); get the job (after an interview)
- After graduating, she got a job at a small design studio in Leeds.
- It's hard to get a job without experience, so I'm doing an internship first.
- My flatmate got a part-time job in a café to pay for his studies.
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First versionLast year my brother got a work in a bank.
RevisionLast year my brother got a job in a bank.
Work and job are easy to mix up because both are about what you do for a living. Work is uncountable: it is the activity itself, or the place you go every day (go to work). A particular position is a job, and you can count it: a job, two jobs. So a work was changed to a job.
Find a job usually means the same as get a job: It took me three months to find a job. The difference shows with a specific vacancy: you find the advert, but you get the position after the interview: I found a job I really wanted, but I didn't get it. That is why people ask Did you get the job? after an interview.
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Did you ___ the job you interviewed for last week?
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get — The interview has already happened, so the person found the vacancy earlier. Now the question is whether they were hired, and that is get the job. Find the job makes no sense after an interview.
Write about how you or someone you know got a job: say what the position was and how long the search took.
My friend got a job as a web designer after almost four months of searching.
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