Career Management – 3.03 Vocabulary

  1. Accurate
/ Correct in all details; exact.
  1. America’s Learning Exchange
/ Part of careeronestop.org
  1. American Career InfoNet
/ Part of careeronestop.org
  1. Autonomy
/ Freedom from external control or influence; independence.
  1. Career Outlook
/ The number of jobs that will be available in a certain field in the future.
  1. Classify
/ Arrange (a group of people or things) in classes or categories according to shared qualities or characteristics.
  1. Clerical
/ (of a job or person) concerned with or relating to work in an office, especially routine documentation and administrative tasks.
  1. Compatibility
/ A state in which two things are able to exist or occur together without problems or conflict.
  1. Current
/ Belonging to the present time; happening or being used or done now.
  1. Dictionary of Occupational Titles
/ Book that describes thousands of jobs in detail.
  1. DOL Employment and Training Administration
/ Mission of the Employment and Training Administration (ETA) is to contribute to the more efficient functioning of the U.S. labor market by providing high quality job training, employment, labor market information, and income maintenance services primarily through state and local workforce development systems.
  1. Entrepreneur
/ A person who runs a business; a self-employed person.
  1. Entrepreneurship
/ The ownership, organization, and management of a business.
  1. F4K
/ A web portal developed to provide career and educational resources with industry and mentor support. Accessible at
  1. Free Enterprise System
/ Allows private ownership; profit motive; competition, and freedom of choice.
  1. Goal
/ The object of a person's ambition or effort; an aim or desired result.
  1. Goods
/ Merchandise; wares; tangible products that satisfy human wants.
  1. Guide To Occupational Education (GOE)
/ Book that contains twelve main interest areas and careers that suit people with those interests.
  1. Inflation
/ A sharp increase in the costs of goods and services.
  1. Informational Interview
/ A meeting between you and a professional to seek advice & insight on their career, the industry, and the corporate culture of a potential future workplace; . The purpose is to helpdefineyour career options.
  1. Intrinsic
/ Belonging naturally; of or relating to the essential nature of a thing
  1. Job security
/ The probability that an individual will keep his or herjob; ajobwith a high level ofjob securityis such that a person with thejobwould have a small chance of becoming unemployed.
  1. Job-shadowing
/ Workexperience option where students learn about ajobby walking through theworkday as ashadowto a competent worker. Thejob shadowing workexperience is a temporary, unpaid exposure to the workplace in an occupational area of interest to the student.
  1. Myth
/ A widely held but false belief or idea.
  1. NCCareers.org
/ Website which contains career information specific to North Carolina. Helps match interests with possible occupations. Accessible at
  1. Non-traditional career
/ A non-traditionaloccupation isdefinedas any occupation in which women or men comprise less than 25% of the workforce. Today, many women and men are breaking down barriers to pursuecareers.
  1. North Carolina Department of Public Instruction
/ Implement the state's public school laws and the State Board of Education's policies and procedures governing pre-kindergarten through 12th grade public education. The guiding mission of the North Carolina State Board of Education is that every public school student will graduate from high school, globally competitive for work and postsecondary education and prepared for life in the 21st Century.
  1. Occupational Info Network (O*NET)
/ The Occupational Information Network (O*Net) is a comprehensive, interactive database developed by the US Department of Labor to identify and describe important information about occupations, worker characteristics, work skills and training requirements. The on-line system is available at
  1. Occupational Outlook Handbook (OOH)
/ Occupational Outlook Handbook; leading guide for national occupational and career information from the US Department of Labor. It describes the nature of work, earning, outlook, education, and job requirements, and related occupations for approximately 200 occupations. Predicts future needs for employment. This resource is available in book format or at
  1. Periodical
/ A magazine or newspaper published at regular intervals.
  1. Promotion
/ Advance an employee earns by being productive, cooperation, dependable, and highly skilled.
  1. Recession
/ A period of declining economic growth.
  1. Service Learning
/ A teaching andlearningstrategy that integrates meaningful communityservicewith instruction and reflection to enrich thelearningexperience, teach civic responsibility, and strengthen communities
  1. Services
/ Intangibleproductssuch asaccounting,banking, cleaning, consultancy,education,insurance,expertise, medical treatment, ortransportation. We pay someone to do something for us because: we do not want to do it, don’t have the time or don't have the expertise.
  1. Shift work
/ Recurring periods in which different groups of workers do the samejobs in rotation
  1. Standard Industrial Classification (SIC)
/ A system for classifying industriesby a four-digit code, used by government agencies toclassify industryareas.
  1. Standard Occupational Classification (SOC)
/ System is used by Federal statistical agencies to classify workers into occupational categories for the purpose of collecting, calculating, or disseminating data. All workers are classified into one of 840 detailed occupations according to their occupational definition. To facilitate classification, detailed occupations are combined to form 461 broad occupations, 97 minor groups, and 23 major groups.
  1. Strategy
/ A plan of action or policy designed to achieve a major or overall aim.
  1. Trade
/ A skilled job, typically one requiring manual skills and special training.
  1. Traditional Career
/ Earlier, women were confined to traditional roles such as housewives but now they also want to contribute to the family budget. The only hassle is that women in the job market have often been confined to undertake traditional jobs rather than being allowed to undertake challenging jobs that men usually take up.
  1. Transferable skills
/ Aptitude and knowledge acquired through personal experience such as schooling, jobs, classes, hobbies, sports etc. Basically, any talent developed and able to be used in future employment.
  1. Trade and Professional Journals
/ Publications which contain information regarding trends, industrial innovations and training opportunities for specific professions.
  1. Trends
/ A direction of movement.
  1. Unbiased
/ Showing no prejudice for or against something; impartial.
  1. Video/Voice Conferencing
/ Can be used as an option to replace travel.
  1. Volunteer
/ Someone who undertakes community service work of his or her own free will, without receiving a salary or wage in return.
  1. Working Conditions
/ Information about hours, environment, and safety in regards to an occupation.