Career Vocabulary
This is series of related jobs that share similar interest, experience, training, and knowledge
What is a career?
Familiarity with a certain subject
What is knowledge?
A two-year degree that prepares students for either a particular career or for additional schooling
What is an associate's degree?
This is Ms. Jasmine's favorite color.
What is hot pink?
A hourly payment to a worker for completing job tasks
What is a wage?
Ability or talent that is not learned by practice, but acquired
What is aptitude?
A four-year college degree
What is a bachelor's degree?
This is Ms. Jasmine's favorite pizza topping.
What is pineapple?
A grouping of similar occupations.
What is a career cluster?
The skill that allows workers to go with the flow even as things rapidly change?
What is flexibility?
This is a room in a building where you take classes that are large (sometimes 100-200 students)
What is a lecture hall?
This is Ms. Jasmine's favorite animal.
What is a sloth?
An opportunity where you follow a worker for a set period of time while viewing and learning as they do their work
What is job shadowing?
What is organizational skills?
This is an advanced degree awarded after many years of schooling beyond a bachelor's degree; its abbreviation means doctor of philosophy
What is a PhD?
This is where Ms. Jasmine was born.
A usually short term job or work experience or project that requires a commitment; this opportunity may be paid or unpaid.
What is an internship?
This skill is needed to accomplish tasks that seem difficult or impossible at first
What is creative problem solving?
This is an application that you fill out to qualify for government financial aid
What is the FAFSA?
This is Ms. Jasmine's job.