Disciple gets a job with the French (7)
I believe the answer is:
apostle
'disciple' is the definition.
(the apostles were disciples of Jesus)
'a job with the french' is the wordplay.
'job' becomes 'post' (post is a kind of job).
'with' says to put letters next to each other.
'the french' becomes 'le' ('the' in French).
'a'+'post'+'le'='APOSTLE'
'gets' acts as a link.
(Other definitions for apostle that I've seen before include "St James, for example" , "Champion - one of twelve" , "Thaddeus, perhaps" , "Maybe Peter" , "Peter, perhaps" .)