A task, or the execution of a task; as, Michelangelo did a great job on the David statue.
A task or coordinated set of tasks for a multitasking computer, submitted for processing as a single unit, usually for execution in background. See job control language.
To do or cause to be done by separate portions or lots; to sublet (work); as, to job a contract.
To do chance work for hire; to work by the piece; to do petty work.
A general description of the type of activities being performed by a group of individuals completing similar work (e.g., Computer Specialist).
In computing, a unit of work that is defined by a user and that is to be accomplished by a computer.
A paid position with specific duties, tasks, and responsibilities in a particular place of work (e.g., photographer at Best Pictures).
A specific set of duties performed for a specific employer in a prescribed location or range of locations for a specific rate of pay.
" means a homogeneous cluster of work tasks, the completion of which serves an enduring purpose for the organization. Taken as a whole, the collection of tasks, duties, and responsibilities constitutes the assignment for one or more individuals whose work is of the same nature and is performed at the same skill/responsibility level--as opposed to a position, which is a collection of tasks assigned to a specific individual. Within a job, there may be pay categories which are dependent on the degree of supervision required by the employee while performing assigned tasks which are performed by all persons with the same job. FAR 31 Contract Cost Principles and Procedures"
A collection of tasks viewed by the computer as a unit. The symbol signifying the quantity 210, which is equal to 1024. K is sometimes confused with the symbol , (kilo) which is equal to 1000.
Duties and responsibilities of a future or existing employee. Title, Position Control Number, date of creation, grade position description, job series, type, role, status Computer Specialist, Management Analyst
Refers to one or more positions whose work (duties and responsibilities) is of the same nature and which is performed at the same skill and responsibility level.
Set of specific duties for a specific employer. Jobs may be paid or unpaid, part time or full time and of short or long duration.
an object worked on; a result produced by working; "he held the job in his left hand and worked on it with his right"
arranged for contracted work to be done by others
work occasionally; "As a student I jobbed during the semester breaks"
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A job is a unit of work that is processed at a workstation. The job definition consists of a unique job name in the scheduler database along with other information necessary to run the job. When you add a job to a job stream, you can define its dependencies and its time restrictions such as the estimated start time and deadline.
The set of tasks that is allocated to an employee and that they are expected to carry out during their work day. See also Occupation.
A job refers to a collection of instructions and files that is used by Adlib software to execute specific tasks. Examples include conversion of a document to PDF, merging files together, applying watermarks etc. See also Job Ticket, XML Job Ticket and DPI Job Ticket.
A series or combination of tasks to reach a goal or produce an end product. Workers may be assigned to the same organization and have the same title, but might not do the same job if their combinations of tasks differ.
An Expresso Job is a task that is performed asynchronously. Instead of the web browser seeing the results, the results are emailed to the person that queued the job.
The set of tasks that is allocated to an employee and that they are expected to carry out during their work day. The term is often extended to include the immediate physical or social work environment in which the tasks are performed.
The total collection of tasks, duties, and responsibilities assigned to one or more positions which require work of the same nature and level.
(n.) A user-defined task to be completed by a computer system.
A particular piece of work. See botched-up job, lube job, piston ring job, ring job, and valve job
What a person does at work to satisfy an employer's needs and expectations in exchange for pay. A job consists of responsibilities, duties, and tasks that are defined and can be accomplished, measured, and rated. It is used as an employment tool for classifying work and for selecting employees.
a group of two or more identical or substantially similar positions, that have common tasks, responsibilities and required skills.
1. n. A unit of work defined by a user that is to be accomplished by a computer. Loosely, the term job is sometimes used to refer to a representation of a job. This representation may include a set of computer programs, files, and control statements to the operating system. 2. n. A Printing Systems Manager (PSM) object that represents a request to print one or more documents in a single printing session.
A regular activity performed in exchange for payment, especially as one's trade, occupation or profession. Find the work you love
the type of work a person does
A defect, enhancement or other unit of intended work.
work order, change request, ECO A work request, such as a bug report or enhancement request. Using Perforce, you can associate a job with the changelists that record the work the job required.
one or more duties or programs that are treated as a unit of work by the computer
group of contiguous operation s related by similarity of function s that can be complete d by one or more workers without interference or delay. [D03636] DSMC A homogeneous cluster of work task s, the completion of which serves an enduring purpose for the organization. [D03519] GAT
(1) A unit of work defined by a user to be done by a system. The term "job" sometimes refers to a representation of the job, such as a set of programs, files and control statements to the operating system. (2) One or more related procedures or programs grouped into a procedure, identified by appropriate job control statements. See also process.
a name given to dictation as referred to by a transcriptionist as work which is to be transcribed or having been transcribed.
That work which is undertaken to meet a customer or production order and, for production control purposes, has a unique identification.
A collection of positions that have similar major duties and responsibilities.
A command or series of to perform maintenance tasks on one or more Players. Jobs typically involve uploading and downloading scripts, log files, and media files.
A set of duties and responsibilities carried out by an employee.
a paid position requiring a group of specific attributes enabling a person to perform a configuration of tasks in an organization.
(1) A set of data that completely defines a unit of work for a computer. A job usually includes all necessary computer programs, linkages, files, and instructions to the operating system.(2) In Tivoli Workload Scheduler for z/OS, an operation performed at a computer workstation.
A specified group of tasks prescribed as a unit of work for a computer. By extension, a job usually includes all necessary computer programs, linkages, files, and instructions to the operating system.
A resource consisting of a task and its preconfigured execution parameters. Among other things, the parameters specify the set of hosts on which the job is to execute.
Defined duties that a person performs for pay.
A Perforce database object that can be used to track defects, enhancements, or other intended work.
A particular piece of work. Any undertaking.
A unit of work separately run by a computer. Also called a process. A unit of work on the AS/400 system. Jobs run in subsystems and use system resources, such as memory, disk, and processor cycles, to perform their tasks. Jobs can be allocated priorities and can run either interactively or in batch. In the Integrated Language Environment (ILE) model, a collection of resources and data that consists of one or more activation groups. See also activation group. In the OfficeVision calendar function, an item that schedules a control language (CL) command to run at any date and time.
An immediate task, paid or unpaid.
The objects sent back and forth between the agent and controller are jobs. A job is an individual task that the agent performs. Jobs can be pooled, and in that pool there can be a certain order per hardware. Thus, jobs can have predecessors, and if a predecessor fails, the next job won't run.
A specific set of tasks and duties which constitute a position within an organisation.
A task that runs on a managed host or on the Change Manager server. Some Change Manager jobs are initial installation, update, audit, import, and export.
1) The combination of tasks, duties, and responsibilities assigned to an individual employee and usually considered his or her work assignment. 2) The contents of a work order.
A grouping of similar positions having common tasks, duties, and responsibilities.
In computing a job (or process) is a term used to refer to a single instance of a program. The term is mostly used on multitasking systems. These are operating systems that are able to process many tasks 'concurrently'; however, this is normally achieved through the illusion of doing a little bit of job A, then a bit of job B, then a bit of job C, but done so quickly that the user sees them as happening at the same time.