Chapter 2 Careers 2
Terms
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- GATB
- General Aptitude Test Battery.
- Life Experiences
- Experiences that cause you to be confident or fearful as you prepare for a career
- Self
- The part of your experience that you consider you.
- Social Self
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Your invovlement wiht other people and your view of what they think about you.
- Interest Surveys
- Tests used to measure interests.
- Environment
- Your surroundings.
- Interests
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Preferences a person has for specific topics or activities.
- Self-esteem
- The judgement you make about your level of competence and adequacy.
- Avocation
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a constructive leisure-time activity that provides personal satisfaction.
- Worker Traits Groups
- Job categories that include physical demands, aptitudes, tmeperments, environmental conditions, training time, and vocational preparation.
- Personality
- The relationship that exists between all of aa person's psycological parts.
- Working With Data
- A category of job tasks that involves that use of words and numbers.
- Qualify
- Meet the preliminary requirments; as for a job or position.
- Aptitude
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A person's potential for success in performing a certain ability.
- Culture
- The way of life in the society in which you live.
- ASVAB
- Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Batery.
- Working With Things
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A category of job tasks that involves the use of machines, tools, and instruments.
- Stable Job
- A job considered to be permanent; may last several years.
- Work History
- All of the jobs that one holds during the course of a working lifetime.
- Personality Trait
- A personality characteristic that can be measured.
- Reference Groups
- Groups that set behavior standards.
- Leisure Time
- Time that is free from normal occupational responsibilities.
- Character
- The sense of moraltiy and the ethical code by which a person lives by.
- Working With People
- A category of job taks thatinculdes everyhting related to human relations
- Ability
- How well you perform specific tasks.
- Traits
- Characteristics
- Heredity
- The process of transmitting physical or mental characteristics from parent to child.
- Temperment
- The way a person usually acts, feels, and thinks in a certian way.