Chapter 2 Careers
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- Worker Traits Group
- Job categories that include physical demands, aptitudes, temperaments, environmental conditions, training time, & vocational preparation.
- Ability
- How well you perform specific work tasks.
- Work History
- All of the jobs that one holds during the course of a working lifetime.
- Promotion
- Advancement to a higher-level position.
- Working with People
- A category of job tasks that includes everything related to human relations.
- GATB
- General Aptitude Test Battery.
- Aptitude
- A person's potential for sucess in preforming a certain activity.
- Self Esteem
- The judgement you make about your level of competence & adequacy.
- Social Self
- Your involvement with other people & your view of what they think of you.
- Environment
- Your surroundings.
- Life Experiences
- Experiences that cause you to be confident or fearful as you prepare for a career.
- Interests
- Preferences a person has for specific topics or activities.
- Working with Data
- A category of job tasks that involves the use of words & numbers.
- Qualify
- Meet the preliminary requirements; as for a job or position.
- Working with Things
- A category of job tasks that involves the use of machines, tools, & instruments.
- Interest Surveys
- Tests used to measure intersets.
- Personality Trait
- A personality characteristic that can be measured.
- Technology
- Application of scientific knowledge to practical use.
- Heredity
- The processing of transmitting physical or mental characterists from parent to child.
- Self
- The part of your experience that you consider to be you.
- Stable Job
- A job considered to be permanant; may last several years.
- Reference Groups
- Groups that set behavior standards.
- Personality
- The relationship hat exists between all of a person's psychological parts.
- ASVAB
- Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery.
- Culture
- The way of life in the society in which you live.
- Leisure Time
- Time that is free from normal occupational responsibilities.
- Avocation
- A constructive leisure-time activity that provides personal satisfaction.
- Temperament
- The way a person usually acts, feels, & thinks in certain situations.
- Self Direction
- Setting goals & working toward them.
- Character
- The sense of morality & the ethical code by which a person lives.
- Obsolete
- outdated; no longer in use.
- Traits
- Characteristics.