PROFESSIONAL NETWORKING TERMS

MASTER HANDSHAKER

100

Accomplishment

• The successful achievement of a task or completion of a goal.

200

Industry

A group of companies that are related based on their primary business activities. In modern economies, there are dozens of industry classifications. Industry classifications are typically grouped into larger categories called sectors.

300

Network

all the people you know. A synonym for this is your community of people you know from all areas of your life – work, play, volunteering, parenting, etc.

400

Skills

• Abilities and aptitudes; what a person is good at. They can be learned or developed. Some examples of skills include typing, planning, organizing, communicating, etc.

500

Standard Employment

an employment relationship between one employer and one employee that is both full-time and permanent

PEOPLE PARTNER

100

Belief

An attitude that something is the case, or some proposition about the world is true

200

Information Interview

• a tool to get up to date accurate facts about an industry, occupation, organization, or education program by having informal conversations. It is an effective research tool and network builder and is best done after preliminary online research. It is not a job interview, and the objective is not to find job openings.

300

Occupation Outlooks

• also called “labour market outlooks,” “occupational demand and supply outlooks” and “job outlooks” — assess future labour market conditions by occupation. Looking at prospective changes in both the demand and supply sides of the labour market help identify the occupations where labour market imbalances could develop.

400

Networking

• the exchange of information and ides among people. The act of building relationships with other professions in your field and in other fields.

500

Strategic Volunteering

strategically choosing a volunteer opportunity that incorporates your personal and professional goals

HAPPINESS HERO

100

Career

• Career is a lifestyle concept that involves the sequence of occupations (paid and unpaid) in which one engages throughout a lifetime, including work, learning and leisure activities

200

Job

• a set of tasks and duties performed by a single worker

300

Non-Standard Employment

an employer–employee relationship that deviates from standard employment and can include fixed term contracts, project or task-based contracts, seasonal work, self employment.

400

Sector

• an area of the economy in which businesses share the same or related business activity, product, or service. Sectors represent a large grouping of companies with similar business activities, such as the extraction of natural resources and agriculture.

500

Technical Skills

Specific, teachable abilities gained through experience and education that can be defined, quantified, and measured. E.g.: speaking a foreign language, typing speed, a degree, HTML, and accounting.

COLLECTOR OF BUSINESS CARDS

100

Elevator Pitch

• a quick synopsis of your background and experience. The reason it's called an elevator pitch is that it should be short enough to present during a brief elevator ride.

200

Labour Market Information

• Information covers the principal elements of the labour market and its operations. It can include data on employment, wages, standards & qualifications, job openings, working conditions. Information may be historical, current, or projected; formally or informally collected; and based in skills, occupations, or industries.

300

Professional Network

a group of people who have connected with one another for career or business-related reasons

400

Professional Skills

• skills that are largely intangible, hard to quantify and can represent personality traits and interpersonal skills. E.g.: organizational skills, reliability, etiquette, getting along with others, communication skills. Also referred to as SOFT SKILLS.

500

Networking Outreach Script

• a prepared script, typically used for email or LinkedIn connection requests, that you write and tailor to reach out to people to ask for something, typically an information interview

MARKETING ROCKSTAR

100

Employer

a person, company or organization that employs people and pays them to do work. The company you do work for is an example of an employer.

200

National Occupational Classification (NOC)

• Canada’s national system for describing occupations. NOC can be used to learn about an occupation’s main duties, educational requirements, and other useful information.

300

Occupation

• a collection of jobs sufficiently similar in the work performed to be grouped under a common label. The types of professional activities one engages in. Often used interchangeably with the word job.

400

Transferable Skills

• the talents a person gathers throughout their career and through other real-life experiences which can be transferred to a new job or new career.

500

Research

• The collection, organization, and analysis of information to increase understanding of a topic or issue.