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Career Vocab
College and Career vocab words
Term | Definition |
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Applicant | a person who formally applies for a job |
Associate’s degree | degree awarded usually for at least 2 years of full-time academic study beyond high school; see Education |
Domestic sourcing | moving jobs to lower cost regions of the United States instead of to other countries |
Job outlook | a statement that conveys the projected rate of growth or decline in employment in an occupation over the next 10 years; also compares the projected growth rate with that projected for all other occupations; see Growth rate |
Qualities | characteristics and personality traits that are likely needed for workers to be successful in given occupations |
Rotating work schedules | schedules that have a fixed number of hours and time off, but no set weekly hours, over a period of more than 1 week; see Work schedules |
Training | see On-the-job training |
Internship | training under supervision in a professional setting. This category does not include internships that are suggested for advancement; see On-the-job training |
Labor force | the sum of all persons 16 years and older in the civilian noninstitutional population who are either employed, or unemployed but available for work and actively looking for work |
Earnings | pay or wages of a worker or a group of workers for services performed during a specific period—for example, hourly, daily, weekly, or annually. Also see Pay, Wages |