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You and the World of Work
Getting to Know Yourself
Researching Careers
Finding and Applying for a Job
Interviewing
100
Skills that you can use in many different situations
What are Transferable Skills?
100
A series of steps that can help you identify and evaluate possibilities and make a good choice.
What is the Decision-Making Process?
100
A short informal talk with someone who works in a career that appeals to you.
What is an Exploratory Interview?
100
Information about a job that is available. A tip from someone you know, an ad in the newspaper, or on the internet.
What is a Job Lead?
100
A meeting between an emplyer and a job applicant to discuss possible employment.
What is an Interview?
200
The things you like to do
What are Interests?
200
The ways you want to spend your time.
What is your Lifestyle Goals?
200
Following a worker on the job for a few days.
What is Job Shadowing?
200
A list of people you know who might be helpful in your job search.
What is a Contact List?
200
The gestures, posture, and eye contact you use to send messages.
What is Body Language?
300
The work you do for pay
What is a job?
300
Your beliefs and principles.
What are is Values?
300
Short-term employment.
What is Temp Work?
300
A temporary job that becomes a permanent job after a period of evaluation by the potential emplorer.
What is a Temp-To-Hire Job?
300
A situation in which you are asked to play a role in an invented situation and are evaluated on the skills you display.
What is Role-Playing?
400
Ways in which a group produces, distributes, and consumes its goods and services.
What is the Economy?
400
Your potential for learning a certain skill.
What is Aptitude?
400
Unpaid short-term job or work that requires formal commitment (on the job training).
What is Internship?
400
A form that asks questions about a job applicant's skills, work experience, education, and interests.
What is a Job Application?
400
Using thinking skills to suggest a solution to a question.
What is Problem Solving?
500
When businesses hire other companies or individuals to produce their services or goods.
What is Outsourcing?
500
The skill you have already developed.
What is Ability?
500
Employment "extras" such as health insurance, paid vacation or holiday time.
What are Benefits?
500
People who will recommend you to an employer.
What are References?
500
Mental or physical tension that is the body's natural response to conflict.
What is Stress?