1. Chapter 1 How Your Choices Affect Income

2. What Is the Job Market?
Job market refers to jobs available for workers.
A skill set is the unique skills and abilities you bring to the job market.
Hard skills are technical.
Soft skills are nontechnical.
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3. Job Choices Affect Your Income
Fastest-Growing Occupations, 2008–18
Occupation
Expected Growth
2008–18
Education
Required
Biomedical engineers
72%
Bachelor’s degree
Network, systems, and
communications analysts
53%
Home health aides
50%
Short-term training and on-the-job experience
Financial examiners
46%
Medical scientists
41%
Doctoral degree
Physician assistants
39%
Master’s degree
Skin care specialists
38%
Post-secondary skills
Source: United States Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics,
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4. Learning about Job Requirements
Job title is the name of a job.
Example: Baker
Job description describes what a job would be like.
Includes: education, experience, hours, work site, location
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5. Values and Goals Affect Your Job Choice
Values: Principal that reflects the worth
you place on an idea or action.
Goal: Desired outcome based on one’s
Value for which a plan of action is carried
Out.
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6. How Does Education Affect Your Income?
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7. Building Communications Skills
Listening
Face and look at the person who is talking.
Focus on what the speaker is saying.
Ignore distractions.
Turn off the phone.
Take notes on the main ideas.
In a conversation, give feedback or nod.
Mentally summarize the main points.
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