Chapter2
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- Self-Direction
- Setting goals and working toward them
- Stable Job
- A job considered to be permanent, may last several years
- Heredity
- The process of transmitting physical or mental characteristic from parent to child
- Personality
- The relationship that exists between all of a persons psychological parts
- Technology
- Application of scientific knowledge to practical uses
- Interest
- Preferences a person has for a specific topic or activities
- Self-Esteem
- The judgement you make about your level of competence and adequacy
- Promontion
- Advancement to a higher-level position
- Ability
- How well you perform specific work tasks
- Social Self
- Yuor involvement with other people and your view of what they think about you
- Personality Trait
- A personality characteristic that can be measured
- Worker Trait Groups
- Job categories that include physical demands,aptitudes,temperament,environment conditions,training time,and vocational preparation
- Interest Surveys
- Test used to measure interest
- Working with Data
- A category of job tasks that involves the use of words and numbers
- Culture
- The way of life in the society in which you live
- Working with people
- A category of job tasks that includes everything related to human relation
- Avocation
- A constructive leisure-time activity that provide personal satisfaction
- ASVAB
- Armed Service Vocational Aptitude Battery
- Environment
- Your surroundings
- Temperament
- The way a person usually acts,feels and thinks in a certain situation
- Aptitude
- A persons potential for success in performing a certain activity
- Reference Groups
- Groups that set behavior standards
- Leisure Time
- Time that is free from normal occupational responsibilities
- Life Experience
- Experiences that cause you to be confident or fearful as you prepare for a career
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- Outdated; no longer in use
- Self
- The part of your experience that you consider to be you
- Trait
- Characteristic
- Working with things
- a category of job tasks that involves the use of machines, tools, and instruments
- Work History
- All of the jobs that one holds during the course of a working lifetime
- Character
- The sense of morality and the ethical code by which a person lives
- Qualify
- Meet the preliminary requirements as for a job or position
- GATB
- General Aptitude Test Battery