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18 Cards in this Set
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A paid position of regular employment |
Job |
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A job or profession |
Occupation |
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an occupation undertaken for a significant period of a person's life and with opportunities for progress
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Career |
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a person who organizes and operates a business or businesses, taking on greater than normal financial risks in order to do so |
Entrepreneur |
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All activities undertaken throughout life, with the aim of improving knowledge, skills and competences within a personal, civic, social and/or employment-related perspective”.
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Lifelong Learning |
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The ability to do something well |
Skill |
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a natural ability to do something
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Aptitude |
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provide students with a context for studying traditional academics and learning the skills specific to a career, and provide U.S. schools with a structure for organizing or restructuring curriculum offerings and focusing class make-up by a common theme such as interest.
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Career Cluster |
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An informational or exploratory interview is often the first step toward landing your dream job.
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Exploratory interview |
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an extra benefit supplementing an employee's salary, for example, a company car, subsidized meals, health insurance
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Fringe benefit |
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an experienced and trusted adviser
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Mentor |
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a work experience option where students learn about a job by walking through the work day as a shadow to a competent worker. The job shadowing work experience is a temporary, unpaid exposure to the workplace in an occupational area of interest to the student.
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Job shadowing |
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a temporary position with an emphasis on on-the-job training rather than merely employment, and it can be paid or unpaid. If you want to go into publishing, you might have to take an internship before you are qualified for an actual job
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Internship |
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a structured method of combining classroom-based education with practical work experience. A cooperative education experience, commonly known as a "co-op", provides academic credit for structured job experience.
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Cooperative program |
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the desire to promote the welfare of others, expressed especially by the generous donation of money to good causes
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Philanthropy |
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longing to the present time; happening or being used or done now
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Current |
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a way or course taken in getting from a starting point to a destination
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Route |
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competent or skilled in doing or using something
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Proficient |
