Vocab 1
The Fair Labor Standards Act limits the hours that youth under 16 years of age can work and lists hazardous occupations too dangerous for young workers to perform.
What is Child Labor Laws?
A work site experience during which a person spends time, typically three to six hours, one-on-one with an employee observing daily activities and asking questions about the job and industry.
What is job shadowing?
An option for earning course credit at off-campus locations via cable television, the Internet, satellite classes, videotapes, correspondence courses, or other means.
What is distance learning?
The proportion of a loan that is charged as interest to the borrower, typically expressed as an annual percentage of the loan outstanding.
What is interest rate?
To compare price and quality of products/services.
What is comparative shopping?
The beliefs, attitudes, and behavior associated with a person or group; a way of life.
What is lifestyle?
A grant to help pay for college is a sum of money given by an organization, especially a government, to help cover college expenses with no expectation of repayment. Unlike a loan that must be paid back, usually with interest added.
What is grants?
A document in which the writer assesses the qualities, characteristics, and capabilities of the person being recommended in terms of that individual's ability to perform.
What is letter of recommendation?
A non-binding plan in which an applicant is admitted to college early, but does not have to commit until the normal reply date.
What is an early action?
Formal meeting about a possible job between job seeker and employer.
What is job interview?
The desire of purchasers, consumers, clients, employers, etc., for a particular commodity, service, or other item.
What is demand?
The cost required for something; the money spent on something.
What is expenses?
Belief in oneself and one's powers or abilities; self-confidence; self-reliance; assurance.
What is confidence?
All the members of a particular organization or population who are able to work, viewed collective
What is labor force?
A document awarded to an individual indicating he/she had met recognized standards on an assessment of knowledge and skills. Examples of credentials are diplomas, certificates, degrees, occupational licenses, and other skill certificates for specific skill sets or competencies.
What is credential?
Money provided to students and families of students to help pay for education expenses. Major forms of financial aid include gift aid (grants and scholarships) and self-help aid (loans and work study).
What is financial aid and assistance?
Concurrent enrollment in both secondary and postsecondary education for the purpose of receiving credit from both institutions.
What is dual enrollment?
: An activity pursued in addition to your normal course of study.
What is extracurricular?
Equal distribution of encouragement, opportunity, privileges, and rights to everyone; freedom from bias or favoritism.
What is equity?
Department of a business that deals with the hiring, administration and training of employees.
What is Human Resources?
A written commitment that is agreed upon at the state and/or local level designed to provide students with a non-duplicated sequence of progressive achievement leading to technical skill proficiency, a credential, a certificate, or a degree.
What it Articulation?
The ability to acquire, understand, and use knowledge and skill.
What is intelligence?
The quality of being trusted and believed in.
What is credibility?
: A paid position with specific duties, tasks, and responsibilities in a particular place of work (e.g., photographer at Best Pictures).
What is a job?
The largest possible profit that a corporation can make.
What is earning potential?