W8 Choosing a Career with Essential Skills Flashcards

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[ Identification ]

Activities that you accomplish each day that compromise your job.

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Task

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[ Identification ]

Position that you fulfill each day as steps in your career ladder.

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Job

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[ Identification ]

The progression of jobs fulfilling your goals within your occupation.

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Career

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[ Identification ]

The area of interest or industry within which you work.

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Occupation

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[ Identification ]

  • Add value to any career.
  • Special soft skills required in addition to having academic qualifications.
  • Self-developed skills, qualities, and behaviors that are not specific to an industry.
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Professional Skills

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[ Identification ]

  • Employers deem them valuable because this can help determine if you will fit with their company values and culture.
  • This also show how you will perform once employed.
  • These are intangible and help you interact and work better with others.
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Professional Skills

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[ Identification: R.I.A.C.S.E ]

In this category,

You are: mechanical

You like: working with mechanical or electric equipment, building things, and using tools.

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Realistic

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[ Identification: R.I.A.C.S.E ]

In this category, you can pursue:

  • Engineer
  • Architect
  • Forester
  • Pilot
  • Military Officer
  • Crafts Person
  • Fish and Game Warden
  • Industrial Arts Teacher
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Realistic

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[ Identification: R.I.A.C.S.E ]

In this category,

You are: curious and science-oriented

You like: science, technology, research, investigating, or studying natural science

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Investigative

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[ Identification: R.I.A.C.S.E ]

In this category, you can pursue:

  • Chemist
  • Economist
  • Physician
  • Anthropologist
  • Dentist
  • Engineer
  • Physicist
  • Production Planner
  • Biologist
  • Psychologist
  • Research or System Analyst
  • Surgeon
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Investigative

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[ Identification: R.I.A.C.S.E ]

In this category,

You are: creative and artistic

You like: painting, designing, singing, dancing, writing, reading literature, and listening to music

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Artistic

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[ Identification: R.I.A.C.S.E ]

In this category, you can pursue:

  • Artist
  • English Teacher
  • Musician
  • Singer
  • Actor
  • Interior Decorator
  • Interpreter
  • Orchestra Conductor
  • Advertising Executive
  • Public Relations Specialist
  • Writer
  • Reporter
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Artistic

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[ Identification: R.I.A.C.S.E ]

In this category,

You are: highly organized

You like: maintaining orderly files/records & designing systematic procedures

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Conventional

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[ Identification: R.I.A.C.S.E ]

In this category, you can pursue:

  • CPA
  • Banker
  • Business Teacher
  • Clerk
  • Financial Expert
  • Office Manager
  • Secretary
  • Data Processor
  • Proofreader
  • Credit Manager
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Conventional

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[ Identification: R.I.A.C.S.E ]

In this category,

You are: service-oriented

You like: teaching, helping, and counseling

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Social

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[ Identification: R.I.A.C.S.E ]

In this category, you can pursue:

  • Counselor
  • Social Service Director
  • Interviewer
  • Teacher
  • Nurse
  • Therapist
  • Training Director
  • Recreation Leader
  • Educational Administrator
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Social

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[ Identification: R.I.A.C.S.E ]

In this category,

You are: business-oriented

You like: selling, persuading, directing, influencing, supervising, and managing a business.

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Enterprising

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[ Identification: R.I.A.C.S.E ]

In this category, you can pursue:

  • Manager
  • Salesperson
  • Market Analyst
  • Broker
  • Contractor
  • Personnel Recruiter
  • Insurance Underwriter
  • Salary Administrator
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Enterprising

19
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[ What are these? ]

  1. Communication
  2. Teamwork
  3. Problem Solving
  4. Leadership
  5. Flexibility
  6. Decision-Making
  7. Organizational and Planning
  8. Interpersonal
  9. Self-Management
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9 Essential Skills to Help You Get Hired

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[ Identification: 9 Essential Skills to Help You Get Hired ]

This skill is essential to the ff:

  • Ask for advice or help
  • Brainstorm ideas with colleagues
  • Advocate for your needs, others’ needs, and for your company’s needs.
  • Deal with demanding customers or colleagues
  • Facilitate, listen, and persuade
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Communication

21
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[ Fill in the blanks: 9 Essential Skills to Help You Get Hired ]

In the rapidly globalizing world, strong ________ skills have become increasingly important for staying competitive in the job market today and tomorrow.

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In the rapidly globalizing world, strong communication skills have become increasingly important for staying competitive in the job market today and tomorrow.

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[ Identification: 9 Essential Skills to Help You Get Hired ]

  • It is the ability to work with others professionally to achieve specific goals.
  • You need to be able to work well with others through effective communication, sharing in responsibilities, and working towards a particular purpose.
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Teamwork

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[ Identification: 9 Essential Skills to Help You Get Hired ]

This skill is essential to the ff:

  • Build relationships
  • Help build a team
  • Resolve conflicts
  • Manage a team
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Teamwork

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[ Identification: 9 Essential Skills to Help You Get Hired ]

It is the ability to identify problems, devise smart and effective ways to address them, implement the solutions identified, then test to see if they worked.

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Problem Solving

25
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[ True or False ]

Employers want someone who will not run away from problems.

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True

26
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[ True or False ]

Employers want an employee who creates issues and effectively get the job done.

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False

Employers want an employee who will solve the issue and effectively get the job done.

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[ Identification: 9 Essential Skills to Help You Get Hired ]

It is about assigning and delegating tasks well, setting deadlines, and leading by good example.

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Leadership

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[ Identification: 9 Essential Skills to Help You Get Hired ]

It allows you to be adaptable and effectively copy with changing environments and situations.

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Flexibility

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[ Identification: 9 Essential Skills to Help You Get Hired ]

This skill is essential to the ff:

  • How you analyze issues and situations
  • Anger management
  • Your ability to change your mind
  • Patience
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Flexibility

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[ Identification: 9 Essential Skills to Help You Get Hired ]

This skill is essential to the ff:

  • Identify an opportunity, challenge, or problem.
  • Produce a variety of responses to it or solutions.
  • Evaluate the pros and cons or benefits and costs.
  • Choose an answer or solution.
  • Implement the option.
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Decision-Making

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[ Identification: 9 Essential Skills to Help You Get Hired ]

This is about showing that you can prioritize, work efficiently and productively, and manage your time well.

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Organizational and Planning

32
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[ Identification: 9 Essential Skills to Help You Get Hired ]

It enables employees to work well with other staff members, managers, clients, customers, vendors, and among other stakeholders.

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Interpersonal

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[ Identification: 9 Essential Skills to Help You Get Hired ]

This skill is essential to the ff:

  • Self-confidence
  • Persistence
  • Resilience
  • Patience
  • Perceptiveness
  • Emotional Regulation
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Self-Management