CAREER PLANNING
SELF-EXPLORATION
CULTURAL CONTEXT
OCCUPATIONAL EXPLORATION
ACCELERATING OPPORTUNITY
100
This model describes each step in the career planning process.
What is the career-planning model?
100
__________ ________ are skills which may be developed in any area of life and applied to a variety of jobs.
What are transferrable skills?
100
This is NOT a step in the career planning process but rather an element that surrounds it.
What is cultural context?
100
This is the process of researching the types of jobs and careers available in a particular region.
What is occupational exploration?
100
This grant to 9 NC Community Colleges is designed to increase the number of adults who earn the credentials and skills needed to obtain employment and succeed in family-sustaining jobs.
What is Accelerating Opportunity?
200
This is the process of pulling together all of the information gathered to make a career plan
What is career planning?
200
This is the process of exploring one's own skills, interests, values, and work preferences.
What is self-exploration?
200
These individuals influence your career decisions.
Who are friends and family?
200
A fact-finding interview with friends, family, neighbors, or someone who has worked in the career or industry you are targeting.
What is an informational interview?
200
This type of career provides an income level to support yourself and others in your household.
What is a family-sustaining career?
300
These jobs require more than a high school credential but less than a college degree.
What are middle skill jobs?
300
This ICA lesson helps students focus on past experiences and accomplishments that may be useful in picking a career.
What is Things I Have Done
300
This is method by which most people learn about un-advertised job openings.
What is word-of-mouth?
300
The North Carolina Career Resource Center, The US Bureau of Labor Statistics, The North Carolina Department of Commerce, The North Carolina Job Connector.
What are examples of NC Career Information Resources?
300
These are 2 of the major funders of the Accelerating Opportunity grant.
What are Jobs for the Future, The Gates Foundation, The Joyce Foundation, The W.K. Kellogg Foundation (any 2 will be accepted)?
400
This is how many job-skill verbs are listed on your "Skills as Verbs" handout.
What is 246?
400
Classification used by students to identify their own skills (i.e. communication skills, number skills, technical skills, etc.).
What are skill categories?
400
Education and training, previous work experience, talking to others in similar jobs, having complete and accurate job applications and resumes, Showing up on time for interviews, Sending thank-you letters.
What are factors you control in your job search?
400
An area of economic exchange in which workers seek jobs and employers seek workers.
What is the labor market?
400
To focus on jobs, the economy, and improving opportunities for adults.
What is the goal of Accelerating Opportunity?
500
Each ICA lesson is _______________ to the NC Curriculum standards.
What is correlated?
500
Factors such as good pay, advancement opportunities, location of the workplace, and good benefits.
What are job values?
500
Age, Weight, Race/Ethnicity, and Gender.
What are factors you cannot control in your job search?
500
Financial resources designed to assist those who are unable to meet the cost of postsecondary education.
What is financial aid?
500
An integrated collection of programs and services intended to develop students’ core academic, technical, and employability skills, and place them in high-demand, high-opportunity jobs.
What are "Career Pathways"?
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