Career Vocabulary

Career 1

100

What is A form used to apply for a job

Application

200

What is A feeling or opinion about something or someone; a mental position with regard to a state

Attitude

300

Things that employers may offer you in addition to your wages; for example, health insurance, annual or sick leave, holidays, paid vacation, parking space or monthly reimbursement for parking space area, mileage for travel, and tuition reimbursement

Benefits

400

A profession for which one trains; a job or series of job that you do during your working life

Career

500

Advertisements in a newspaper, magazine, or online, regarding job opportunities; the section of a newspaper, magazine or Web site devoted to advertisements about job opportunities

Classified Ads/Classified Section/Classifieds

Career 2

100

What is An amount of money taken from your paycheck every payday (usually for things such as federal and state income taxes, employment taxes, social security taxes, workers compensation coverage, and health insurance payments)

Deductions

200

What is the person that hires you called? 

Employer

300

What is Aim or purpose; the end toward which effort is directed

Goal

400

What is The total amount of your pay or wages before any deductions are taken out of your paycheck

Gross Wages

500

What is The desire to learn about and/or be involved in a particular field or topic; activities that you enjoy doing or subjects that you like to learn about and spend time studying

Interest

Career 3

100

What is A department of the U.S. government that collects taxes

Internal Revenue Service (IRS)

200

Jobdoes to earn money; a specific task or piece of work; a specific task or project that is one's responsibility

Job

300

What is the amount of pay or wages you take home after all your deductions are taken out of your pay check

Net Wages

400

What is Using friends, family, and people in organizations that you know to help you find a job

Network/Networking

500

What is A person's job

Occupation

Career 4

100

What is The chance to do something you want to do, advance, or progress; the chance to get a job

Opportunity

200

What is An ability, characteristic or experience that makes you suitable for a particular job or activity

Qualifications

300

What is A person who knows you and is willing to describe and usually praise you to support you when you are trying to get a job; a statement as to a person's character or ability

Reference

400

What is the person directly in charge of you at work called? 

Your supervisor 

500

What is A short written description of your education, qualifications, and previous employment, which you send to an employer when you are trying to get a job; also sometimes called a curriculum vitae or CV

Resume

Career 5

100

What is The ability to do an activity or job well, especially because you have practiced it

Skill

200

What is An amount of money that is paid to the government, which is based on your income

Tax/Taxes

300

conscious knowledge of one's own character, feelings, motives, and desires

What is self awareness

400

What is speaking up for yourself

Self Advocacy

500

What is the process by which a person controls their own life or making good choices.

Self Determination