Job Market I
Refers to the job openings that are available when you are ready to go to work
What is the job market?
Describes what a job would be like, including tasks performed and skills needed.
What is a job descpription?
Refers to all of the activities related to making and distributing goods and services in a geographic area or country.
What is the economy?
The expense paid by students for the instruction at a school.
What is tuition?
A person you know, such as a relative or friend
What is a contact?
Your unique skills and abilities
What is a skill set?
A principle that reflects the worth you place on an idea or action.
What is a value?
Economy based on the laws of supply and demand.
What is a market economy?
Money given to pay for educational expenses that does not have to be repaid
A summary of your work experience, education, skills, and interests that qualifies you for a job opening
Specific technical abilities; measurable physical and mental abilities
What are hard skills?
A desired outcome based on one's values for which a plan of action is carried out.
What is a goal?
The willingness and ability of consumers to buy goods and services.
What is demand?
Loans received from an outside source to help pay for education.
What is financial aid/student loan?
Spending time observing a worker in a type of job that interests you
Nontechnical skills
What are soft skills?
Learning as you do the work.
What is on-the-job-training?
The quantity of goods and services that producers are willing and able to provide.
What is supply?
A gift of money or other aid awarded to a student to help pay for education; maintain a level of partcipation or grades
What is a scholarship?
Type of employment specialist who seeks out highly qualified people to fill upper-level positions for an employer
What is a headhunter?
Website that helps you find career information on duties, education and training, pay, and outlook for hundreds of occupations.
What is the Occupational Outlook Handbook?
Learning new skills from reading and practicing on your own.
What is self-training?
The alternating periods of growth and decline in the economy.
What is the business cycle?
Certified to meet educational quality standards.
What does it mean to be accredited?
Letter that accompanies a resume, introducing the applicant to a prospective employer