Preparing For Higher Education
Why is it good to prepare for higher education?
So you can make more money in the future, and have more job opportunities.
What is a job?
Job: An activity through which an individual can earn money.
What is a career?
A career is a lifetime journey of building and applying knowledge, skills, and experiences in paid employed positions.
What is human capital?
Human capital is the skills, knowledge, and experience that someone has that they can bring to a company.
What are types of transferable skills?
Teamwork, patience, discipline, communication, presenting...
When preparing for higher education, what are some types of places that you may receive a higher education if you want one?
Community Colleges, Universities, Technical Schools, academies (such as AoE), private institutions, and of course colleges.
How do you invest in yourself when getting a job?
Continue education, formal/informal training, networking, reading, post-secondary education and, workshops.
What website did we use to help find your career path, and what career focus you might be in?
ACT profile.
Is having more human capital more useful in the workplace? Why?
Yes, because if you have more human capital than some of the other people that you work with, then you have a higher chance of being promoted.
What are the categories of transferable skills?
Interpersonal, analytical, technical, and organizational.
What should you do to find out what a good college for you is?
You should ask people about colleges, research certain colleges/universities you've heard of, and look for minimum GPA requirements, price, location, and the majors/minors that the college/university has.
When you invest your human capital and transferable skills, what can happen.
You can develop a career for yourself.
What is a career cluster?
A career cluster is a grouping of occupations and industries based on the knowledge and skills required to be in that career cluster.
Four things that you should do well with in high school to make sure that places of higher education will accept you.
GPA, Letter Grades, SAT scores, ACT scores.
(This system is terrible though)
How do you become more qualified for jobs?
Human Capital, and Transferable Skills.
What is the difference between an occupation or an industry?
Occupation: Groups of jobs that perform similar tasks
Industry: Groups of establishments that produce similar products or similar services
What document(s) can your transferable skills go on?
Resume, and cover letter
What is the document that you have to fill out in order to get scholarships for things such as college.
FAFSA.
What does job education and training result in?
Increased job security, increased chance of getting employed, increase in earnings, enhancing skills, and making better connections with people.
What are the three steps of career exploration?
2.Research identified occupations
3. Evaluate the research found