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ECE 3 Standard 01b
ECE3-01b Employability Skills
Term | Definition |
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Professional Dress | Dressing appropriately for the situation and environment. Typically tasteful, conservative and within limits for situation. |
Professional Greeting | Greeting a new acquaintance with a smile, handshake, and pleasant "good morning" or "nice to meet you" and giving your name |
Professional documents | paperwork needed to get a job or apply to a college. Resume', Reference Sheet, application, etc. |
Resume | a one page, clear and concise record of jobs, volunteer experiences, skills and other information in chronological order |
Reference sheet | a one page document that contains all contact information for 3+ adults who would recommend you for a job or other recognition |
Cover letter | the business formatted letter that would accompany a resume if it were mailed, dropped off or faxed. |
Thank you letter | a follow up written by hand or in business format sent to an interviewer after an interview. |
Inflection | How you use your voice to be persuasive or to communicate your true feelings |
Confidence | Being sure of yourself and your abilities, communicated through voice, posture and in writing. |
Professional Reference | A person willing to answer a question, write a letter or complete a survey to help you get a job or be admitted to an opportunity |
Networking | using the people that you know to help you find a job or gain recognition |
Creativity | Finding new and better solutions to problems or challenges, refusing to give up. |
Problem solving | Thinking through various ways to accomplish a goal or complete a challenge |
Integrity | The quality of being honest and having strong moral principles, doing what is right regardless of how you feel |
Honesty | Truthfulness, sincerity, or frankness with kindness and consideration |
Accountability | Being willing to responsibility for faults or failures, being part of the solution. Also always being where you are supposed to be. |
Punctuality | Planning so that you can be ON TIME for commitments and obligations |
Time Management | Planning to allow for all of a task, assignment or job to get done. |
Respect for diversity | Actively valuing all people, discouraging anyone from putting down or excluding others. Seeing different as different not less. |