Career Exploration Wednesday Clock-in

6. Person who works for a company and uses skills, knowledge, and company resources to create new products, make improvements, or develop ideas that benefit the company.
7. Critical skills necessary to perform the required work-related tasks of a position. Also called job-specific skills.
11. Process of choosing a course of action after evaluating available information and weighing the costs, benefits, and consequences of alternative actions.
12. Groups of occupational and career specialties.
13. Tool that helps a person understand personal preferences and identify strengths and weaknesses.
14. Work arrangements that are typically full-time, permanent jobs with a single employer.
17. Skills used to communicate and work well with others.

1. Taking on both the risks and the responsibilities of starting a new business.
2. Work arrangements that include temporary, contract work, or freelance/gig work.
3. Someone who influences others in a positive way and makes things different or makes things better.
4. Goal that is specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, and timely.
5. List of steps on a timeline to reach each established career goal. Also known as a postsecondary plan.
8. Natural ability to do or learn something. Also called a talent.
9. Principles and beliefs that an individual considers important.
10. Person who starts a new business.
15. Ability that a person learned over time and can do well.
16. Something a person wants to achieve in a specified time period.