Awarded after completing planned coursework
that usually involves two years of full-time study
What is an Associate's Degree?
100
Writing sample that reflects a student’s ability to think and
write; also provides the student with an opportunity to express something
about himself as an individual
What is an essay?
100
Including your name, phone number, email, and URL to your LinkedIn profile right at the top of the page.
What is contact information?
100
The total number of career clusters.
What is 16.
100
To be late for work.
What is Tardy?
200
Awarded upon completion of planned coursework
that usually involves four years of full-time study
What is a Bachelor's Degree?
200
Testing taken junior and/or senior year.
What is the SAT / ACT?
200
A list of jobs and experiences you have had in the work place?
What is work experience?
200
Dallas High School has four which groups each of the 16 career clusters.
What is a Career Academy?
200
The department within an organization that handles employee services such as salary and benefits.
What is Human Resources?
300
Degree earned after the completion of a bachelor’s degree;
involves a prescribed course of study in a specific field.
What is a Master's Degree?
300
What school counselors, teachers, or other important adults think about a student’s potential to handle college-level learning.
What are letters of recommendation?
300
The location you include where you went to high school or post secondary education.
What is the education section?
300
Provides students with a context for studying traditional academics and learning the skills specific to a career by grouping careers.
What are career clusters?
300
What you do when you try to reach an agreement about salary and benefits.
What is negotiate?
400
A two- or four-year college that prepares students for technical or hands-on careers through a traditional college schedule; often requires courses (such as English or social studies) outside a student’s field of study
What is a Technical college?
400
A chance for college staff and a prospective student to
ask questions of each other; can be conducted in person or on the telephone with a college admissions officer or a graduate of the college.
What is an interview?
400
A list of places you have gotten experience working without pay.
What is Volunteer Experience?
400
This academy groups careers like doctors, farming, dentists and science.
What is the Health, Science and Human Services Academy?
400
An activity through which an individual can earn money. It is a regular activity in exchange of payment.
What is a job?
500
When a student starts at a two year college will lower tuition bills for the first two years of classes while they explore career fields or academic areas of interest then finishes the last two years at a university achieving a four year degree.
What is a two-plus-two degree program?
500
Shows what a student has accomplished outside the classroom?
What are co-curricular activities?
500
When you show the number of customers you worked with or how much money you saved the company.
What are metrics?
500
Small groups of occupations within a career cluster; occupations within a pathway share common skills, knowledge, and interests.
What are career pathways?
500
The pursuit of a lifelong ambition or the general course of progression towards lifelong goals.