CAREER CONNECTIONS Chapter 1

A. Chapter 1 Key Terms 1.The amount of goods and services you can buy with your income is you’re absolute earnings. 2.Aggressive is a manner that is unfriendly, insulting, domineering, relentless, and quarrelsome. 3.Persistent, understanding, and cooperative are good words to describe these people who are assertive. 4.Your career is the paid and unpaid work you do during your lifetime.

5.Cultural diversity is a society with ethnic, religious, racial, and political differences. 6.To delay gratification is to postpone the acquisition of certain things or the participation in certain activities 7.Dull and tedious labor is drudgery. 8.To be paid as much as a co-worker in the same occupation is to receive equal pay. 9.The personal connections people develop with others through their thoughts and behaviors are human relationships.

8.The amount of goods and services you can buy with your income compared to what your neighbors can buy with theirs is your relative earnings. 11. Self-concept is how people view their own skills, interests, and competence level 12. Apologetic, indifferent, passive, and yielding behavior is submissive.

13. To be overqualified for the job performed is to be underemployed. 14. Periodic change in the task, pace, or location of the work is variety.

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. — Confucius Choosing Your Career

B. Who Will You Be? The identity stage is a time in a person’s life in which the question “Who am I?” arises more and more frequently. For example: 1.What career role will I have? 2.Will I have a role as a wife or husband? 3.Will I be a parent? If so, what kind of parent will I be?

4. Developing a Career Plan INCLUDE THESE STEPS IN YOUR CAREER PLAN: a) List interests, abilities, job skills, achievements, and values b) Establish short- and long- term goals c) Locate occupational information d) Identify broad career areas related to your interests, talents, and values Building a bridge to your future.

Developing a Career Plan (cont.) e)List occupations within your chosen career area f)Narrow your occupational choices g)Plan for needed education and training h)Learn the necessary job skills i)Decide sacrifices you are willing to make to fulfill your career plan

5. Are You Submissive? Do you go where others decide and do what they wish, even if you disagree? People who behave in a submissive manner tend to be: a)Apologetic b)Indifferent c)Passive d)Yielding

6. Are You Aggressive? Do you refuse to listen to other points of view and argue until you get your way? People who behave in an aggressive manner tend to be: a)Unfriendly b)Insulting c)Domineering d)Relentless e)Quarrelsome

7. Are You Assertive? Do you think for yourself without becoming angry or aggressive, and express your feelings and values openly and honestly? People who behave in an assertive manner tend to be: a)Persistent b)Understanding c)Cooperative

8. Reasons for Working Reasons to work include the following: a)A paycheck b)Job security c)Human relationships d)The work task e)Career decisions

9. Human Relationships To establish and maintain effective communication, all workers need the following: a)A feeling of being important and appreciated b)Independence to accomplish their job tasks

c)Recognition from other workers that they are understood and accepted d)Knowledge that evaluations are fair e)Knowledge that loyalty will be rewarded

10. High Level of Job Satisfaction a)Paycheck satisfies realistic lifestyle desires b)High skill level provides security and job choices c)Job provides prestige d)Coworkers are cooperative and supportive

e)Management has a high regard for the worker’s performance f)Work is interesting g)The worker values the work tasks

11. Average Level of Job Satisfaction a)Paycheck covers more than basic necessities b)Seniority and job skills provide some security c)Job provides respect at work and at home

d)Coworkers are usually pleasant e)Supervisor usually approves of worker’s performance f)Work is usually interesting g)Tasks often require full use of worker’s skills

12. Low Level of Job Satisfaction a)Paycheck covers basic necessities b)Security depends on the economy and approval of supervisor c)Job is considered menial by others

d)Most coworkers are unpleasant or unconcerned e)Supervisor is demanding and lacks understanding f)Work is boring and repetitious

13. Job Effectiveness Your effectiveness on the job will depend to a great degree on the match between: a)Yourself b)The job task c)The workplace

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