Career Vocabulary
After high school.
What is post-secondary?
Skills a person has that makes them employable.
What are employability skills?
A brief account of a person's education, qualificaations, and previous experience.
What is a résumé?
The day you can start to work if you are hired.
What is the available start date?
A formal meeting between an employer and a potential employee.
What is a job interview?
The expected change in employment for specific occupations over a 10 year period.
What is Job Outlook?
Learned abilities you get through practice, repetition, and education
What are Hard Skills?
The section of the résumé that lists your education.
What is Education?
Working 40 hours or more a week.
What is full-time?
10-20 minutes.
A country's military.
What are armed forces?
Skills that can easily be transferred from one ob to another.
What are Transferrable Skills?
The section of the résumé that list the skills you have that you want to show the employer.
What are Skills and Abilities?
A formal request for employment.
What is Job Application?
It is appropriate to say you do not have any questions when the interviewer asks if you have any questions.
What is NO?
Occupations that require a special skill knowledge, or ability and can be obtained through a college or technical school.
What are skilled trades?
Giving your best effort in the jobs you do.
What is work ethic?
The number of pages a résumé should be.
What is One?
A person's name written by them in cursive.
What is signature?
The very first thing you should do when preparing for a job interview.
What is research the company you are applying to?
Part of an employee's salary that is not money.
What are benefits?
Skills that are not job specific but are needed to be successful in the workplace.
What are soft skills?
Typically the résumé is sent in with this.
What is an application?
What you put on an application when the question does not apply to you.
What is N/A?
When answering the question "what is one of your weaknesses" it is ok to say you do not have any.
What is NO?