General term for a job, task, or piece of work, often used in business or casual contexts.
今日は新しいジョブが入った。
A new job came in today.
このジョブは明日までに終わらせてください。
Please finish this job by tomorrow.
In computing, a unit of work or a process, such as a batch job or print job.
プリントジョブがキューにたまっている。
Print jobs are queued up.
The server executes the batch job overnight.
すべてのジョブが正常に終了した。
All the jobs finished successfully.
The engineer submitted a job to the queue.
タスク usually refers to a smaller, specific assignment, whereas ジョブ can denote a larger unit of work or, in computing, a whole batch process.
職業 is the formal word for one's profession or occupation, while ジョブ is a casual loanword for a job or task.
ジョブ (job) and ジム (gym) sound similar to beginners but are unrelated loanwords with completely different meanings.
job control
job number
side job; side gig
job café; youth employment support center
job queue
Borrowed from English 'job'.
job-hopper