Careers of the Future
What enables us to earn a living?
Work
What depends on the skills, experience, and education you bring to the job?
Your salary
What is an evaluation of the positive and negative attributes of a given career choice?
Job analysis
With rapidly advancing technologies what is certain?
Change
What are specialized, intensive programs that prepare students for higher-level work responsibilities with more challenges and higher pay?
Advanced degree
What creates better and faster ways of getting things done?
Technology
True or False? Salaries could increase after a month, six months, or a year.
True
What is the amount if monthly or annual pay that is earned for one's labor?
Salary
What are three things you can do about change?
Accept it, reject it, or ignore it.
What offers advice and counseling to help you determine a career direction?
Placement center
What has opened a worldwide market to businesses of all sizes?
The internet
What includes any cost paid by the employee that are not reimbursed by the employer?
Employee expenses
What are company-provided supplements to salaries? (i.e. sick pay and health insurance)
Benefits
What are two examples of online technology news sources?
CNET and Wired magazine
What lists your strong and weak points and gives you an idea of how to prepare for your career?
Self-assessment inventory
What career groups are where knowledge is the key job skill?
Professions
True or False? Employee expenses cannot be tax-deductible.
What is the ability to advance, accept more responsibilities, and eventually work your way up to higher positions?
Promotion
What means advancing to a higher level of skill to increase your usefulness to an employer?
Upgrading
What must continually reinvent themselves to meet changing market needs?
Businesses
What type of jobs are a large and increasing sector of the market?
Service jobs
What might include indoor versus outdoor work, working alone or with people, job pressures, and time between breaks?
Work Characteristics
Who is someone who organizes, manages, and assumes the risks of a business or enterprise?
Entrepreneur
What involves learning new and different skills so that an employee can retrain the same level of employability?
Retraining
What is an effective way to obtain useful information?
Networking