Chapter 3 Flashcards
Internal Career Design
it matches your interests, abilities, personalities, and values to your ideal career field
Self-Assessments
based on what you think of yourself; they are taken in a less formal setting with no time limitations
Formal-Assessments
written by psychologists who research careers and career skills and then create a test based on their research
Interest inventories
Designed to help you relate your interests to career clusters
Ability assessments
Measures how well you perform specific tasks now and whether you can master them in the future
Personality assessments
Reveals the personal qualities that make you unique
Work Values
the aspects about a career and the workplace that are important to you
Informal Assessment Experiences
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
Career Fair
an opportunity to talk to many businesses about many careers at one time
Career Day
A day organized so you can listen, interact and ask questions of people in careers that interest you
Informational Interview
Talking to people about their careers.
Job Shadowing
an Informal assessment activity where you spend several hours following a worker at a job location
Internship
provides practical experience working in a specific career
Service Learning
you volunteer your time to help the community
List three items that are important in helping you understand and appreciate yourself.
interests, skills, beliefs, and values
What do assessments provide?
They help you know about yourself
What are two things that career assessments do?
They assist you in investigating, identifying, and recognizing your interests, personality traits, abilities, values, attitudes, and individual preferences
What is one of the first steps toward helping you find your ideal career?
learning about yourself
It’s an assessment with no time limit, a list of questions, or a checklist—WHICH IS WHAT?
self-assessments
What are the four categories for formal assessments?
Interests, talents, personality, and values
What are two examples of who would use formal assessments?
Psychologists, career counselors, colleges and universities
Companies may charge a fee to score these assessments—WHICH IS WHAT?
ability assessments
This assessment describes how you perform in various social and private situations.
personality assessment
What is the most important thing with assessment results?
what you do with them
Assessments are _______ that help you identify your talents and interests.
tools
_______ ________ ________ 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.
informal assessment experiences
What four things can informal assessment activities help you with?
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
What is an advantage of a career fair?
You can learn about many careers at one time and make contacts for job shadowing or a part time job
What is a disadvantage of a career fair?
some students pick up materials but do not interact with the people in the booths
What are the two types of career days?
One is organized by a school and one is organized by a professional
_______ _________ also can serve as a type of internship if you focus on a specific area.
service learning
Following a worker at the job location is an informal assessment activity called?
job shadowing
Which is the better way to choose a career path according to the book; job shadowing or internship and WHY?
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.
Talking to people about their careers to get honest information about work is called?
informational interview
Instruments designed to help you relate your interests to career clusters are called?
interest inventories
Provides practical experience working in a specific career?
internship
