Career Exploration Vocabulary

1. The money received by an employee from an employer as a salary or wages.
4. An arrangement in which someone learns an art, trade, or job under another.
6. The position of a student or trainee who works in an organization, sometimes without pay, in order to gain work experience or satisfy requirements for a qualification.
7. Technical skills, are learned through education or hands-on experience.
8. CAREER- The process of researching, evaluating, and learning about modern work opportunities and how students can pursue the careers of their choice.
9. Training where one employee follows another and observes how they work in their role.
16. Bureau of Labor Statistics
17. A formal account of an employee's responsibilities.
18. A fixed regular payment, typically paid on a monthly or biweekly basis.
20. A practice job interview held with a professional career counselor.
22. A self-report inventory designed to identify a person's personality type, strengths, and preferences.
24. Awarded after completing a shorter program that concentrates on a specific field of expertise rather than an entire course of study.
26. A group of occupations with similar features.
27. A skilled job, typically one requiring manual skills and special training.

1. A series of structured and connected education programs and support services that enable students
2. The action or process of interacting with others to exchange information and develop professional or social contacts.
3. Occupational Outlook Handbook..
5. The combination of characteristics or qualities that form an individual's distinctive character.
9. A common metric used to express how many people are employed in a certain position or occupation for a period of time.
10. Evaluation of oneself or one's actions and attitudes of one's performance at a job.
11. A free online database that contains hundreds of job definitions to help students, job seekers, businesses and workforce development professionals to understand today's world of work in the United States.
12. A postsecondary educational institution designed to train students for a specific job in a skilled trade.
13. Non-technical skills that describe how you work and interact with others.
14. The ability to do something well.
15. Directed at a particular occupation and its skills.
19. Taking control of your career and being accountable for your own success.
21. The use of a source of information in order to ascertain something.
22. Myers Briggs Indicator Type
23. Applied and industrial sciences.
25. An occupation undertaken for a significant period of a person's life and with opportunities for progress.