Careers ch.5
Terms
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Schools that prepare students for specific professions such as lawyer, dentist, veterinarian, and physician through their four year degrees.
- preprofessional programs
- A face-to-face meeting between a job seeker and a potential employer
- Job interview
- A wide range of education and training provided by employers for their employees usually involving supervised work experience.
- on-the-job training
- Admissions of students withoutregard to grade point average, test scores, or class rank.
- open-admissions policy
- A type of occupational training for technical career fields that starts in high school and usually ends with an apprenticeship certificate or graduation from a community college program.
- Tech Prep programs
- Pleasant or agreeable.
- compatible
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The largest type of institution for higher learning composed of several undergraduate colleges and graduate schools for advanced study.
- university
- A school that is privately owned and is operated for profit
- propriety school
- Qualifications for a job or career.
- competencies
- To verify or make firm, such as calling to check an appoinment.
- confirm
- Educational courses that are completed at home at the student's own pace.
- correspondance courses
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The specific details of a job offer, such as working hours, salary or wages, and fringe benefits.
- conditions of employment
- A school that focuses on training students in the fields related to engineering and physical sciences.
- technical school
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A relationship between an employer and an employee during which a beginning worker or apprentice learns a trade.
- apprenticeship
- Federally administered employment and training program serving severely disadvantaged young people ages 16 to 21.
- Job Corps
- Unspoken communication through physical movements, expressions, and gestures.
- body language
- A general equivalence diploma that states that a person has passed a five part test in the areas of:writing, social studies, science, reading, and math;equal to a high school diploma.
- GED
- Imagined or pretended.
- hypothetical
- A qualification of school stating that it has met certain minimum standards for its program of study, staff, and facilities.
- accredited
- Worker unions of craftsman.
- guilds
- Fit into.
- adapt
- A thank-you letter sent to an interviewer following a job interview
- follow-up letter
- After highschool.
- postsecondary
- A four-year degree in a certain subject; also called a bachelors degree.
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baccalaureate degree
- Types of jobs available.
- employment structure
- A certified, experienced, skilled craftsperson who has successully completed an apprenticeship.
- journey worker
- To evaluate someone or something, such as a potential employer.
- appraise