C Davis Chapter 5
Terms
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- Body Language
- Unspoken communication through physical movements, expressions, and gestures.
- Journey Worker
- A certified, experienced, skilled craftsperson who has successfully completed an apprenticeship.
- GED
- Generally equivallency diploma.
- Technical
- A school that focuses on training students in fields related to engineering and the physical sciences.
- Follow-up Letter
- A thank-you letter sent to an interviewer following a job interview.
- Correspondence Courses
- Educational courses that are completed at home at the students own place.
- Confirm
- To verify or make firm, such as callijng to check on an appointment.
- Accredited
- A qualification for a school stating that it has met certain minimum standards for its program of study, staff, and facilities.
- Appraise
- To evaluate someone or something, such as a potential employer.
- Adapt
- Workers wil require life long education and training if they are to adapt.
- Job Interview
- A face-to-face meeting between a job seeker and a potential employer.
- Guilds
- Worker unions of craftsmen.
- Conditions of Employment
- The specific details of a job offer, such as working hours, salary wages, and fringe benefits.
- Competencies
- Qualifications for a job or career.
- Compatible
- Pleasant or agreeable.
- Proprietary School
- A schol that is privately owned and is operated for profit.
- OJT(on-the-job training)
- A wide range of education and training provided by employers for their employees.
- Apprenticeship
- A relationship between an employer and an employee during which the beginning worker, or apprentice, learns a trade.
- Postsecondary
- Occuring after highschool, especiaaly refering to education.
- Employment Structure
- The types of jobs available in the job market.
- University
- The largest type of institution of higher learning, composed of several undergraduate colleges and graduate schools for advanced study.
- Tech Prep
- A type of occupational training for technical career fields that begins in high school and ends in apprenticeship certificate or graduation from a community college programs.
- Open-admissions Policy
- A policy of granting admission to all applicants without regard to grade point average, test scores, or class rank.
- Job Corps
- Federally administered employment and training programs serving severly disadvantaged young people, ages 16 to 21.
- Baccalaureate Degree
- A four-year degree that is sometimes called a bachelor's degree or undergraduate degree.
- Hypothetical
- Imagined or pretended.
- Professional Programs
- A couse of study that satisfies the admissions requirements for a specific degree professional school as part of the baccalaureate degree.