Careers
Career/Job Vocabulary Words
Terms
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- resume
- brief summary of your personal information, activities, and interests
- job title
- name of a job position
- duties
- tasks, or jobs, that a worker must do
- team
- organized group that sets goals, makes decisions, and implements actions
- work environment
- physical and social surroundings
- volunteer
- person who willingly does something for free
- cover letter
- one-page letter telling the employer who you are and why you're sending your resume
- employment
- the occupation for which you are paid
- character
- the inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions
- employability skills
- general work habits and attitudes required in all jobs
- job
- work that people do for pay
- job application
- form asking questions about skills, work experience, education, and interest
- communication skills
- the ability to speak, write and listen well
- personal qualifications
- behavior, cooperative, ethical, confidential, assertive, adaptable
- interview
- formal meeting between and employer and a job applicant
- career
- series of related jobs built on a foundation of interest, knowledge, training, and experience
- decision-making process
- logical series of steps to identify and evaluate possibilities and to arrive at a good choice
- salary
- the money paid for employee services
- problem solving
- the thought processes involved in solving a problem
- leadership
- the activity of leading
- reference
- a formal recommendation by a former employer to a potential future employer describing the person's qualifications and dependability
- career goals
- desired achievements related to work such as jobs, education, training, experience. or professional
- work ethic
- a commitment to the value of work and purposeful activity
- character
- the inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions
- employer's basic expectations
- relationship, work day, work environment, productivity, performance, attitude, appearance
- networking
- A way of making and using contacts to get job information and advice
- personal goals
- objectives you want to achieve; short- or long-term
- communication skills
- the ability to speak, write and listen well
- critical work skills
- necessary to not only do their job but also to excel at it
- conflict management
- consists of diagnostic processes, interpersonal styles, and negotiation strategies that are designed to aviod unnecessary conflict and reduce or resolve excessive conflict.
- aptitudes
- The natural abilities that people possess
- interpersonal skills
- the ability to handle new and different situations among people
- work permit
- shows that you have been advised of laws restricting the hours young people can work and kinds of jobs that can hold
- academic skills
- skills you have been taught in school
- values
- principles that you want to live by and beliefs that really matter to you