Vocabulary

Unit 1

1. Assessment: evaluating something. For example, a test in math class is an

“assessment” of your understanding of the subject.

Formal Assessment: like an EOC test

2. Auditory: Relating to the sense of hearing.

Career:

3. An occupation or profession followed as a life’s work.

4. COBRA:

• Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act;

A law that says “if you lose your job, you can get medical insurance from your company for 18 months IF YOU PAY FOR IT”

5. Dexterity:

• skill in using the body or hands.

6. Equal Employment Opportunities Commission

(EEOC):

• Enforces laws to prevent unfair treatment on the job due to sex, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, or age.

7. Ethics:

• A group of principles of conduct that govern a group or society:

Your should not kill

You should not steal

You should not cheat

8. Family Medical Leave Act:

• 1993; Employers with 50 or more workers have to give up to 12 weeks of unpaid time off (leave) a year so workers can take time off to help care for a new baby or an ill family member without fear of losing their jobs.

9. Fair Labor Standards Act:

• Sets minimum wage, requires over-time pay for time worked over 40 hours, and restricts the employment of minors.

10. Formal assessment:

• Standardized written or performance test of knowledge, aptitude, values, etc.

Gender identity:

• Sexual identify; how you identify yourself, either male or female

Generativity:

• The period of time in one’s life called the “working years”; from your late 20s to early 60s when people are productive in the world of work and develop families and are productive in society

Integrity:

• Following a strict code of conduct or standard of values that is acceptable in society

Interest Inventory:

• A survey of a person’s interests, such as do you like to run things, work with your hands, read, etc.

Don’t get these confused!!!!!

• Interpersonal: Relationships between persons.

• Intrapersonal: relationship with yourself

Inventory:

• An accounting of things.

Job:

• To do occasional pieces of work for hire; a task.

Kinesthetic:

• having to do with bodily movement

Learning Styles:

• The ways people think and learn.

Leisure:

• Time when you are not working or in school and you can do what you want

Life Roles:

• The various parts of one’s life, such as citizen, parent, spouse, worker, etc.

Life Stages:

• Changes that occur as we move through life experiences. You are now in the life stage called “adolescence.”

Linguistic:

• Pertaining to the use of language.

Logical:

• Use of reliable inference and reasoning.

Occupational Changes:

• Changes in job status.

Reduction in force:

• The employment of fewer people.

Rehabilitation Act of 1973:

• Extended protection to those with physical or mental handicaps.

Sandwich Generation:

• Group of people who are caring for both their parents and their children.

Self-concept:

• How people view their own skills, interests, and competence level.

Self-esteem:

• How one views oneself; pride; confidence.

Spatial:

• Pertaining to a sense of space.

Termination:

• Getting fired or laid off from a job

Unemployment insurance:

• A joint state-federal program where you receive a weekly payment from the government if you are laid off from a job through no fault of your own.

Values:

• Cherished ideas and beliefs that affect decisions a person makes.

Vocational Rehabilitation Services:

• If you have either a physical or a mental handicap these are provided to you for free in order to train you for a job

Work Ethic:

• How a person feels about his/her job and the effort he/she puts into it.

Work Needs:

• Those characteristics that employers require for employment (basic skills, thinking skills, personal qualities, workplace competencies).

Work Values:

• Ideas and beliefs concerning career/work that determine how much you like what you do. For example, one of my work values is: Independence. I do not like people telling me what to do so I look for a career where I can make my own decisions.

Worker’s Compensation:

• Guarantees financial assistance to workers injured on the job