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Chapter 3 Flashcards

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Internal Career Design

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it matches your interests, abilities, personalities, and values to your ideal career field

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Self-Assessments

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based on what you think of yourself; they are taken in a less formal setting with no time limitations

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Formal-Assessments

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written by psychologists who research careers and career skills and then create a test based on their research

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Interest inventories

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Designed to help you relate your interests to career clusters

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Ability assessments

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Measures how well you perform specific tasks now and whether you can master them in the future

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Personality assessments

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Reveals the personal qualities that make you unique

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Work Values

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the aspects about a career and the workplace that are important to you

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Informal Assessment Experiences

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activities in which you talk to someone working in a career, observe someone at a work in a career or work in a specific career yourself

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Career Fair

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an opportunity to talk to many businesses about many careers at one time

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Career Day

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A day organized so you can listen, interact and ask questions of people in careers that interest you

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Informational Interview

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Talking to people about their careers.

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Job Shadowing

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an Informal assessment activity where you spend several hours following a worker at a job location

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Internship

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provides practical experience working in a specific career

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Service Learning

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you volunteer your time to help the community

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List three items that are important in helping you understand and appreciate yourself.

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interests, skills, beliefs, and values

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What do assessments provide?

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They help you know about yourself

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What are two things that career assessments do?

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They assist you in investigating, identifying, and recognizing your interests, personality traits, abilities, values, attitudes, and individual preferences

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What is one of the first steps toward helping you find your ideal career?

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learning about yourself

19
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It’s an assessment with no time limit, a list of questions, or a checklist—WHICH IS WHAT?

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self-assessments

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What are the four categories for formal assessments?

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Interests, talents, personality, and values

21
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What are two examples of who would use formal assessments?

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Psychologists, career counselors, colleges and universities

22
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Companies may charge a fee to score these assessments—WHICH IS WHAT?

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ability assessments

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This assessment describes how you perform in various social and private situations.

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personality assessment

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What is the most important thing with assessment results?

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what you do with them

25
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Assessments are _______ that help you identify your talents and interests.

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tools

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_______ ________ ________ are activities in which you talk to someone working in a career, observe someone at work in a career, or work in a specific career yourself.

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informal assessment experiences

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What four things can informal assessment activities help you with?

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Learn firsthand about types of jobs in a career field and the job requirements eliminate possible careers understand the world of work and its positive and negative aspects create your internal career design

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What is an advantage of a career fair?

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You can learn about many careers at one time and make contacts for job shadowing or a part time job

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What is a disadvantage of a career fair?

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some students pick up materials but do not interact with the people in the booths

30
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What are the two types of career days?

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One is organized by a school and one is organized by a professional

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_______ _________ also can serve as a type of internship if you focus on a specific area.

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service learning

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Following a worker at the job location is an informal assessment activity called?

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job shadowing

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Which is the better way to choose a career path according to the book; job shadowing or internship and WHY?

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An internship is a better choice because you have hands-on experience with the job you are looking at while job shadowing is only perspective.

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Talking to people about their careers to get honest information about work is called?

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informational interview

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Instruments designed to help you relate your interests to career clusters are called?

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interest inventories

36
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Provides practical experience working in a specific career?

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internship

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