Careers Unit 1 Test Review

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Balanced Decision Making

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A decision making model that encourages a balance of logical thinking and intuition

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Career

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The sum of one's life experiences. Every person has a career which uncludes all of the individual's work, learning, recreational, community, and family roles.

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Credentials

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Documents, references, or experience that recommends and qualifies a person for a job.

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Opportunities

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Possibilities or chances for advancing towards one's goals

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Portfolio

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A collection of relevant and related information

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Self Knowledge

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What one knows about one's self

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Goal - Definition

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Something you want, a target or destination

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Goal - Connection

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Knowing what you want makes deciding easier

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Knowledge - Definition

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Information and skills

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Knowledge - Connection

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Decision making requires knowledge about yourseld, your options, and possible consequences

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Analysis - Definition

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Looking at something carefully in order to understand it

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Analysis - Connection

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Through analysis we learn about options and their advantages and disadvantages

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Plan - Definition

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How to get what you want

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Plan - Connection

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Putting our decisions into action takes planning

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Reflection - Definition

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After decisions are made, we should review and evaluate the decision to see if changes are needed

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Be Focused - Meaning

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Concentrate: Look claerly and carefully

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Be Focused - Relation to Decsion Making

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We have to keep our goals in mind at all times

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Be Aware - Meaning

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Know what is going on

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Be Aware - Relation to Decision Making

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To make decisions we have to know ourselves and the world around us

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Be Objective - Meaning

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Be an impartial judge know how to seperate fact from feeling

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Be Objective - Relation to Decision Making

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The logical side of decision makingg is based on a "factual" weighting of pros and cons

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Be Practical - Meaning

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Base what you want on reality; know what can and can't be done

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Be Practical - Relation to Decision Making

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Plans for carying out a decision must be realistic

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Be Careful - Meaning

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Take care with what you do

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Be Careful - Relation to Decision Making

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Each step of the decision making process and the plan if action must be carefully reviewed and evaluated

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Be Flexible - Meaning

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Be willing to change and adapt

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Be Flexible - Relation to Decision Making

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Our goals, decisionsm ad resulting plans must be open to change as needed

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Be wary - Meaning

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Be on the lookout for changes or factors that have been overlooked

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Be Wary - Relation to Decision Making

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Decisions must often be made with imperfect knowledge

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Be Optimistic - Meaning

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Expect that things will work out

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Be Optimistic - Relation to Decision Making

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Decisions can be reversed. Look for more than one way to get what tou want.

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Be Magical - Meaning

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Use imagination; think creatively

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Be Magical - Relation to Decision Making

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Making decisions involves making a mental picture of the future.

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Be Open - Meaning

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Be willing to try something new and different

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Be Open - Relation to Decision Making

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Anything can change at any time; be ready for it

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7 Interview Don'ts

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1) Late
2) Cellphone on
3) Mentally unprepared
4) Physically unprepared
5) Wallflower
6) Too Personal
7) Oversell/ Undersell