Career Development
The act of evaluating your own strengths and weaknesses
What is self assessment?
A year spent taking time off in between highschool and post-highschool.
What is a gap year?
A form that you fill out in order to apply for a job.
What is a job application?
Specific laws regulating when and how much people under the age of 18 are allowed to work.
What are child labor laws?
Skills that can be applied to a variety of jobs.
What are transferable skills?
Groups of occupations that are in similar fields
Jobs that often involve working with your hands, like mechanic, plumber, electrician, etc.
What are the trades?
Meeting with an employer so that the employer can learn more about you beyond your resume.
What is a job interview?
Unwelcome attention of a sexual nature.
What is sexual harassment?
Skills more concerned with people, communication, or any non-education based skill.
What are soft skills?
A destination or some other concept or item that you want or need
What is a goal?
Local colleges that mostly have 2 year programs and generally are cheaper than universities.
A letter written to explain more of your accomplishments to an employer beyond your resume.
What is a cover letter?
Organizations for the purpose of protecting worker's rights and negotiating with employers.
What are labor unions?
The act of speaking up for yourself.
What is self-advocacy?
Goals that are specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, and time bound.
What are SMART Goals?
Testing that everyone takes, and all tests are the same difficulty.
What is standardized testing?
Ways to find out about potential jobs? (Ex: Job websites, networking, job fairs)
What are job opportunities?
Organization designed to protect worker's rights and to enforce workplace safety, usually on construction sites.
What is OSHA?
The way you communicate with your body. (Ex: crossed arms)
What is body language?
Data about the types of jobs that are available, growing, etc.
What is labor market data?
Places of education that consist of many colleges under one name, generally with Bachelors, Masters, and Doctorate programs.
What are universities?
Clothes like a suit, tie, button down, blouse, etc.
A method of negotiating in which a representative discusses worker's rights with an employer.
What is ollective bargaining?
When both parties fully comprehend what is being communicated between them.
What is mutual understanding?