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Work - ✔✔Work is any useful activity
Interests - ✔✔Interests are subjects or activities you like
Skills - ✔✔Skills are what you can do. Specific to certain tasks.
Transferable skills - ✔✔Transferable skills are skills you can use in many
different situations and activities
Job - ✔✔A job is work that you do for pay. The work consists of certain
tasks. Jobs usually have specific job titles that describe a worker's role in
an organization.
Example: Antonio is a nurse. His tasks include recording patients'
symptoms, taking blood pressure, and treating wounds.
Occupation - ✔✔Occupation is the type of work you do. People can change
jobs but still have the same occupation.
,Example: Antonio's job title is now a staff nurse, but he might change jobs
and become a chief nurse. His occupation would still be a nurse.
Career - ✔✔A career is a series of related jobs or occupations built on a
foundation of interest, knowledge, training, and experience.
Lifestyle - ✔✔Lifestyle is the way you use your time, energy, and money.
What are reasons people work? - ✔✔The reasons people work are:
1. To earn money
2. To be around others with similar interests
3. To make a contribution
4. To be fulfilled
Economy - ✔✔The economy is all the ways in which a group (such as a
nation) produces, distributes, and consumes goods and services.
Global economy - ✔✔The global economy refers to the ways in which the
economies of nations are linked.
Job market - ✔✔The job market is the demand for particular jobs
Technology literacy - ✔✔Technology literacy are the skills to use, evaluate,
and choose different types of technology.
Information and media skills - ✔✔Information and media skills are abilities
to organize and evaluate what you watch, hear, and read.
, Team - ✔✔A team is an organized group that works toward a common
goal.
Job outlook - ✔✔A job outlook is a prediction about the number of jobs that
will exist in a certain occupation or industry.
A full time job usually is about how many hours a year? - ✔✔A full time job
usually is about 2,000 hours a year?
Barter economy - ✔✔A barter economy is an economy that lacks a
commonly accepted currency, so all exchanges must be made with goods
and services because money does not exist in these economies.
Do personal skills include creative thinking and critical thinking? -
✔✔Personal skills do not include creative thinking and critical thinking.
In the twenty-first century, job growth will be greater in what industry? -
✔✔In the twenty-first century, job growth will be greater in the service
industry.
What are factors that affect decision making? - ✔✔The factors that affect
decision making are:
- Attitude
- Emotions
- Values and ethics