Careers&Resumes
Skills such as dedicated, team player and good communicator.
Soft Skills
Money that is taken out of your paycheck, like health insurance and taxes are under this category.
Deductions
Your job title/profession in the Shady Sam game.
Loan Shark
Solve this math problem:
x - 10 = 20
30
The three letter initials of the career program website we used.
CIS
Skills such as Excel, speaking a language, using a copy machine.
Hard Skills
Costs that do not change based on your use of product or service. We used this category to sort some of our budget expenses.
Fixed
A job may not require a resume and instead require this document, or require this document and a resume.
Application
One, one dollar bill + five, five dollar bills =
$26
The name of the interactive game you played where you made decisions as you lived "paycheck to paycheck".
Spent
A typical resume should have this many pages.
One
Costs that change based on your use of product or service. We used this category to sort some of our budget expenses.
Variable
This piece of plastic can be used to pay for something at a store. It is money you are borrowing until you make a payment on your monthly bill.
Credit Card
Your budget allows for $20/weekly to go out to eat. This week you only spent $12.50. How much under budget are you for the week?
$7.50
Name at least two topics on the Australian episodes of Dirty Jobs that we watched. The main topics, not the 2nd part of the episode!
Aboriginal Lands, Croc Hunting, Snake Wrangling and Treasure Hunting (Opal Mining)
The term for the reverse order of time when you list your job experience.
Chronological
This is your pay (on your paycheck) AFTER taxes.
Net Pay
This piece of plastic can be used to pay for something at a store. It is money that is coming directly out of your checking account.
Debit Card
You use this document (from your employer) to file your annual taxes.
W-2
The Heads Up game we played is based on a game this talk show host created.
Ellen Degeneres
These people will answer questions your potential employer may have about you when they call them.
References
This is your pay (on your paycheck) BEFORE taxes.
Gross Pay
The proper term for online currency (it was in one of our Heads Up games).
Crypto-Currency
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
If you are correct you get the points (money) and instantly win a piece of candy! This question cannot be stolen.
What was the top way survey respondents would cover a $400 emergency: credit card, borrow from family/friend or would NOT be able to cover.
Credit Card
Use the living paycheck to paycheck game we played on the computers to answer both questions.
Fill in the blanks:
3 jobs were: Admin, Restaurant and ___________.
3 ways to get cash were: Smash your kid's piggy bank, donate plasma and __________________.
Warehouse and Payday Loan