Terms to know
Smaller duties you perform throughout the day.
What are tasks?
This term refers to when both parents work.
What is a dual career family?
This means additional school beyond high school.
What is post secondary?
When two people work the same job, but work at different times of day or week.
What is job sharing?
Whatever you do for a living is known as this term.
What is an occupation?
This term is a desire or drive to achieve and succeed.
What is ambition?
Consists of people who provide aid and assistance for individuals in the family.
What are support systems?
This is a supervised, practical job experiences at the postsecondary level. Can be paid or unpaid.
What is an internship?
This term includes paid vacation and holiday time, sick leave, health and life insurance plans, and retirement benefits.
What are fringe benefits?
this term is defined as the way you and your family live.
What is lifestyle?
A sequence of jobs you have over a period of years.
What is a career?
The two types of support systems for families.
What are:
1.Emotional support
2. Instrumental support
This term is an academic subject chosen as a field of specialization.
What is a major?
An example of this benefit would be an employee coming to work later, because the daycare does not open until after the employee is scheduled to work. Employee then stays later to make up time.
What is flex time?
Skills developed through training or practice.
What are abilities?
Natural talents with which you were born.
What are aptitudes?
Two examples of something happening in an employee's personal life that would affect his or her work performance.
What are:
Sick kids
car troubles
death in family
Programs that provide opportunities for students to learn about jobs through direct work experiences as part of their school courses.
What is work-based learning?
A work program in which an employee works at home by connecting electronically to a central office.
What is telecommuting?
Consists of people who provide aid and assistance for individuals in the family.
What are support systems?
This term is required to accomplish an activity.
What is work?
Three concerns of working parents.
What are:
1. their relationship with their children
2. providing childcare
3. children in self care
Groupings of careers based on common knowledge and skills.
What are career clusters?
A federal law requires companies to allow workers a certain amount of time off to have a baby or adopt a child is one example of this.
What are family friendly policies?
The difference between a certificate and a license.
A certificate is special standing within a profession as a result of meeting certain educational and work requirements.
A license is government agency determines the regulations that must be met. A license must be renewed.