Where in the World?
Say What?
College to Careers
Name That Career
Abbreviations
100
What is a job board/job search website?
100
Psychology, Accounting, Nursing, Education, Sociology are all examples of this.
What is majors?
100
This person on a college campus guides you much like a high school guidance counselor by planning classes with you to take each semester.
What is an academic adviser?
100
This career involves treating ill animals and requires graduate education.
What is veterinary medicine?
100
G.P.A.
What is Grade Point Average?
200
The department on campus that provides job search assistance and resume-writing help.
What is the Career Development or Career Services Office
200
A career exploration activity that offers you the opportunity to spend time with a professional in your area of interest in his/her workplace.
What is job shadowing?
200
This term refers to classes you must take before being allowed to register for higher level courses.
What is pre-requisites?
200
This professional uses mathematical theory, computational techniques and the latest technology to solve economic, scientific, engineering and business problems.
What is a Mathematician?
200
T.A.
What is Teaching Assistant?
300
Considered a form of social media, this website is used by job seekers for professional networking.
What is LinkedIn?
300
Classes that may or may not be within your major that you get to choose from to study areas of interest or just for fun. Often students use these as an opportunity to achieve a minor.
What is electives?
300
Conducted in the hiring process, this verbal interaction allows you to market yourself to an opportunity.
What is an interview?
300
This person finds and fixes pollution and other environmental problems by figuring out what is in the air, water and soil.
What is an Environmental Scientist?
300
R.A.
What is Resident Assistant/Adviser?
400
The place where our education, work history, volunteerism and awards are written.
What is a resume?
400
The length a pre-professional resume should be limited to.
What is one page?
400
A job-training & learning experience that may or may not be paid or worth college credit.
What is an internship?
400
Someone who uses the practical application of physics or chemistry to create things, such food products, pharmaceuticals, engines, bridges, buildings, and roads.
What is an Engineer?
400
B.A.
What is Bachelor of Arts?
500
The chain of seafood restaurants where Chris Rock had his first job.
What is Red Lobster?
500
For many careers a bachelor's degree is not enough--a student must continue on in this.
What is grad school?
500
Often confused with a major, this is a plan of courses students majoring in biology and anatomy or other health sciences might participate in.
What is pre-med/a pre-professional program?
500
Someone in this profession preserves important artifacts such as art, photographs and historic objects.
What is a Curator?
500
F.A.F.S.A.
What is Free Application for Federal Student Aid?