Career Terms

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career

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all the activities leading to the occupations in which one engages,
time extende working out of a purposeful life pattern through work undertaken by the person

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career pattern

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the sequence and duration of occupations in the life span of an indvidual

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career path

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a series of jobs available in some occupational or specialized work area ordinarily connoting possibilites for advancement (moving up the latter)

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career development

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the life-long process of developing work values, crystallizing a vocational identity, learning about opportunities, and trying out plans in part time, recreational, and full time work situations.

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work

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purposeful mental, physical or combined mental physical activity that produces something of economic value or provides an alternative or substitute for economci value

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occupation

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definable work activity that occurs in many different settings

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Job

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a group of similar positions in business, industry, or other places of employment

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position

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a group of activities, tasks or duties performed by one person for one company/organization

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career intervention

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any activity (treatment of effort) designed to enhance a person's career development or to enable that person to make more effective career decisions

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career guidance

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an organized programto help people develop self understanding, learn about the world of work, gain experience that will help in the decision making and finding jobs proccesses

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career counseling

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a service provided to a single client or group of clients who come seeking assistance with career choice

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career education

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a systematic attemp to influence the career development of students and adults through various types of educational strategies

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career coaching

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the term used in business and industry to signify managers’ efforts to facilitate the career development of other employees

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Career information

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also referred to as Labor Market Information (LMI); the data used to make decisions throughout the career development process

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Career management

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a personal state of actively and consciously participating in shaping one’s career and accepting responsibility for the activities and choices made toward those ends

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Career awareness

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the inventory of knowledge, values, preferences and self-concepts that an individual draws on in the course of making career-related decisions/choices

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Career maturity

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repertoire of behaviors that are pertinent to identifying, choosing, planning, and executing career goals available to a specific individual as compared with those possessed by an appropriate peer group

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Decision-making

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the systematic process in which various data are utilized and analyzed according to explicit procedures and outcomes are evaluated in terms of desirability

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Readiness

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for career information suggests that clients have realistic expectations, are free of faulty beliefs that interfere with rational decision making, have learned how to effectively process career information, and have a fairly accurate perception of self

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Leisure

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periods of time in which the individual engages in activities or pursuits chosen freely without constraints of any kind