Key Terms 1
An activity done to produce or accomplish something.
What is work?
The basics a person must have in order to live.
What are needs?
The way goods and services are produced, distributed, and consumed in a society.
What is economy?
The positive result of people of different racial, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds working together.
What is diversity?
The duties of common jobs are often described by the ____ that must be accomplished.
What are tasks?
A move up to a higher position that has increased job responsibilities and requires increased skills and knowledge.
What is a promotion?
The group of traits that makes each person unique.
What is a personality?
The amount of money a person receives for doing a job.
What is income.
The items a person would like to have, but are not needed to survive.
What are wants?
The sixteen broad groups of occupational and career specialties.
What are career clusters?
The money left in a business after all expenses are paid.
What is profit?
Job duties are also described by the ____ needed in workers in order to do the job well.
What are traits?
The amount of money needed for rent, food, travel, and other everyday expenses.
What is the cost of living?
Ideas, subjects, or activities that a person enjoys.
What are interests?
Employment that requires related skills and experiences.
What is occupation?
Skills used in one career that can be used in another.
What are transferable skills?
The practice of one company contracting with another to handle work more efficiently and keep costs in line.
What is outsourcing?
Electronic commerce.
What is e-commerce?
An occupational training program during which a person works at a job, learning from a more experienced person. It can be paid or unpaid, lasting for several weeks, months, or a year.
What is an internship?
This can be used to explore careers and assess interests and abilities online.
What is the O*NET?
The natural talents a person has or the potential to learn certain skills easily and quickly.
What are aptitudes?
A series of occupations, usually in the same or related fields, that help you advance in a chosen field of work.
What is career?
The sum of traits that distinguishes a person as an individual.
What is identity?
The global computer linkup of individuals, groups, and organizations in government, business, and education.
What is the internet?
Work programs offered to employees by employers to help workers better manage family and work demands.
What are family-friendly programs?
The abilities you develop as a result of education and training.
What are skills?
Accompanying a person to his or her job to learn about that person's job.
What is job shadowing?
The skills a person has developed.
What are abilities?
An illustration that shows a sequence of work in a career field, from entry to advanced levels.
What is a career ladder?
A person's typical way of life.
What is lifestyle?
The characteristics or makeup of a population.
What is demographics?
Goods and services created by companies in one country are sold to customers in other countries.
What is the global economy?
Jobs that require no previous training and pay low wages.
What is entry-level?
A program between schools and places of employment that allows students to receive on-the-job training through part-time work.
What is cooperative education?
All beliefs, ideas, and objects that are important to an individual.
What are values?
The work a person does, usually to earn money.
What is a job?
A person's confidence in himself or herself.
What is self-esteem?
Nonmaterial assistance for which people are willing to pay.
What are services?
The application of scientific principles.
What is technology?
Extra rewards given to workers in addition to salary or wages, such as paid sick leave, vacations, and insurance.
What are Fringe benefits?
Anything a person can use to help reach his or her goals.
What are resources?
Recognition of both your strengths and weaknesses. Accepting and feeling good about yourself.
What is self-concept?
How you react to a situation.
What is your attitude?