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Career Exploration Terms
100

Undecided

What is General Studies?

100

Take orders and serve food and beverages to patrons at tables in dining establishment.

Who are waiters/waitresses?

Also known as:

Banquet Server, Waitress, Buffet Server, Waiter, Server, Waitstaff, Restaurant Server, Food Server, Food Runner, Cocktail Server

100

The Patriot

What is George Mason?

100

Innovating or intuitional abilities and like to work in unstructured situations using their imagination and creativity.

What is Artistic?

100

A course of events including all work, paid and unpaid, which are completed during a lifetime.

What is Career?

200

AAS

What is Applies Associates of Science?

200

Plan, coordinate, or edit content of material for publication. May review proposals and drafts for possible publication.

What are Editors?

Also known as:

Features Editor, Acquisitions Editor, News Editor, Editor, Legal Editor, Web Editor, Business Editor, Sports Editor, Science Editor, Newspaper Copy Editor

200

HokieBird

What is VaTech?

200

People who like to work with people to enlighten, inform, help, train, or cure them, or are skilled with words.

What s Social?

200

What one is able to do, the power to perform a specific task.

What is ability?

300

Number of Associate of Arts programs

What is 6?

300

Counsel with emphasis on prevention. Work with individuals and groups to promote optimum mental and emotional health. May help individuals deal with issues associated with addictions and substance abuse; family, parenting, and marital problems; stress management; self-esteem; and aging.

What are Mental Health Counselors?

Also known as:

Correctional Counselor, Behavior Support Specialist (BSS), Counselor, Case Manager, Mental Health Counselor, Clinician, Behavior Analyst, Therapist, Mental Health Therapist, Mental Health Specialist

300

Rodney the Ram

What is VCU?

300

People who have athletic or mechanical ability, prefer to work with objects, machines, tools, plants or animals, or to be outdoors.

What is Realistic?

300

One who organizes and manages a business or enterprise.

Who is an Entrepreneur?

400

A.A., A.S. and A.F.A. degrees require ENG 111 College Composition I and ENG 112 College Composition II.

What is True?

400

Research, evaluate, and establish public policy concerning the origins of humans; their physical, social, linguistic, and cultural development; and their behavior, as well as the cultures, organizations, and institutions they have created.

What are Anthropologists?

Also known as:

Research Director, American Indian Policy Specialist, Research Anthropologist, Applied Anthropologist, Research Associate, Project Evaluator, Medical Anthropology Director, Forensic Anthropologist, Evaluation Specialist, Applied Cultural Anthropologist

400

Big Blue, the friendly lion

What is ODU?

400

People who like to observe, learn, investigate, analyze, evaluate or solve problems.

What is Investigative?

400

A meeting in which a potential job seeker seeks advice on their career, the industry, and the corporate culture of a potential future workplace

What is an Informational Interview? 

500

Only offered at the MEC (Medical Education Campus) campus

What are: Health Sciences & Nursing

  • Dental Assisting
  • Dental Hygiene
  • Diagnostic Medical Sonography
  • Emergency Medical Services
  • Fire Science Technology
  • Health
  • Health Information Management
  • Medical Laboratory
  • Nursing
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Physical Therapist Assistant
  • Radiation Oncology
  • Radiography
  • Respiratory Therapy
500

Design, develop, test, and evaluate integrated systems for managing industrial production processes, including human work factors, quality control, inventory control, logistics and material flow, cost analysis, and production coordination.

Who are Industrial Engineers?

Also known as:

Process Engineer, Production Engineer, Manufacturing Specialist, Supply Chain Engineer, Operations Engineer, Engineer, Tool Engineer, Plant Engineer, Industrial Engineer, Engineering Manager

500

Saints

What is Marymount University?

500

People who like to work with people, influencing, persuading, performing, leading or managing for organizational goals or economic gain. 

People who like to work with data, have clerical or numerical ability, carry out tasks in detail or follow through on others’ instructions.

What is Enterprising?

What is Conventional?


500

A method of identifying personality traits which can be used in understanding the type of work within an occupation.

What is Holland Types?

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