Hiring
A form that asks question about a job's applicant's skills, work experience, education, and interests.
What is a job application?
A brief summary of your personal information, education, skills, work experience, activities, and interests.
What is a resume?
A degree granted after a two-year course of study, especially by a community or junior college
What is an associates degree?
Routes that lead to a particular career.
What is a career pathway?
A fixed or regular payment, typically paid on a monthly or biweekly basis often expressed as an annual sum
What is a salary?
Employment that is usually somewhere between 30-40 hours a week.
What is full-time employment?
The ability to do something well.
What is a skill?
Is an undergraduate academic degree awarded by colleges and universities upon completion of a course of study lasting three to seven years
What is a bachelor's degree?
A division of a university offering advanced programs beyond the bachelor's degree
What is a grad school?
The difference in amount paid (ex: to men vs. women), often for doing the same work
What is a wage gap?
Communicating with people you know or can get to know to share information and advice about jobs.
What is networking?
A ONE-PAGE letter telling the employer who you are and why you are sending your resume. This is the page directly before the resume.
What is a cover letter?
On- or off-campus job offered as part of a student's financial aid package. Student is employed by the school but the majority of the funding for the position comes from the federal or state government.
What is work-study?
A privately run institution that trains students for a particular profession.
What is trade school?
A person who starts a business and is willing to risk a loss or a person who organizes, manages, and assumes the risk of a business or enterprise.
What is an entrepreneur?
A recommendation from a contact who is part of your network.
What is a referral?
Technical abilities required to do a job; acquired through education & employment
What are Hard Skills?
A degree awarded by a graduate school or department, usually to a person who has completed at least one year of graduate study after completing a bachelor’s degree.
What is a master's degree?
A short term job or work project that usually requires a formal commitment.
What is an internship?
The level of comfort in everyday life that is enjoyed by a community, class or individual.
Standard of Living
The process by which a new employee settles into their new job. This includes learning the job and how to do it along with learning the company culture.
What is onboarding?
The market in which employers search for employees and employees search for jobs; not a physical place, but a concept demonstrating the competition and interplay between different labor forces.
What is the job market?
The highest level of academic degree
What is a doctorate degree?
Following a worker for a period of time while observing the worker's duties.
What is job shadowing?
The financial rewards and other compensation employees receive in addition to their regular paycheck. May include medical, dental, vision and prescription coverage; paid vacation, holidays and sick days; tuition assistance; or a retirement plan to save for your future.
What are benefits?