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- 5. The transferable skills needed by an individual to make them 'employable'. Along with good technical understanding and subject knowledge, employers often outline a set of skills that they want from an employee.
- 6. A brief account of a person’s education, qualifications, and previous experience, typically sent with a job application.
- 7. The ability to do something successfully or efficiently.
- 9. eligibility verification form, used for verifying the identity and employment authorization of individuals hired for employment in the United States.
- 10. Information about an open position telling you that a company is hiring - what person or company, what position they're trying to fill, what job skills and/or education are required, etc.
- 12. Also known as a cover letter, is a document sent with your resume to provide additional information on your skills and experience; provides detailed information on why are you are qualified for the job you are applying for.
- 13. The objective analysis and evaluation of an issue in order to form a judgment.
- 17. Having or showing very great skill or proficiency.
- 18. A fixed regular payment, typically paid on a monthly or biweekly basis but often expressed as an annual sum, made by an employer to an employee, especially a professional or white-collar worker.
- 19. A stock or supply of money, materials, staff, and other assets that can be drawn on by a person in order to function effectively.
- 21. A person who organizes and operates a business or businesses, taking on greater than normal financial risks in order to do so.
- 24. The process of finding solutions to difficult or complex issues.
- 26. For more than 50 years, your ESC has played a key role in North Carolina’s economic vitality, helping employers find the staff they need to carry out their business; serving as a career resource center for workers at all skill levels and age groups; supplying labor market data to government officials, researchers and others; and providing unemployment insurance to people who lose their jobs through no fault of their own.
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- 1. A letter sent as a follow-up to an initial letter or to a telephone call, meeting, etc.
- 2. The field concerned with the supervision of personnel across the technical spectrum and a wide variety of complex technological systems.
- 3. An agency that finds employers or employees for those seeking them.
- 4. A situation in which an individual works for himself or herself instead of working for an employer that pays a salary or a wage. A self-employed individual earns their income through conducting profitable operations from a trade or business that they operate directly.
- 8. Used by your employer to determine the amount of taxes to withhold from your paycheck, the W-4 Form can help you out at tax time. Here are the details. The W-4 is an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) form you complete to let your employer know how much money to withhold from your paycheck for federal taxes.
- 11. A verb that shows that something is being done, a word that shows action.
- 14. An amount of money paid each hour to compensate an employee for the amount of time he/she spends working.
- 15. Mobility The measure of how populations move over time. Geographic mobility, population mobility, or more simply mobility is also a statistic that measures migration within a population.
- 16. A letter sent with, and explaining the contents of, another document (resume).
- 18. Verbs Use these verbs to describe your skills and accomplishments when writing your resume and cover letters -- to increase the strength of your writing and make potential employers take notice!
- 20. Tests Tests that organizations give to job applicants to help them hire employees who are productive, dependable, and low-turnover.
- 22. Interact with other people to exchange information and develop contacts, especially to further one's career.
- 23. (Of a record of events) starting with the earliest and following the order in which they occurred.
- 25. Easily changed, able to change or to do different things.