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career vocab
Term | Definition |
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Bachelor’s degree: | degree awarded usually for at least 4 years of full-time academic study beyond high school; see Education |
Master’s degree | degree awarded usually for 1 or 2 years of full-time academic study beyond a bachelor’s degree |
Associate’s degree | degree awarded usually for at least 2 years of full-time academic study beyond high school |
On-the-job training | training or preparation that is typically needed for a worker, once employed in an occupation, to attain competency in the occupation. Training is occupation specific rather than job specific; skills learned can be transferred to another job in the same o |
Some college, no degree | a high school diploma or the equivalent, plus the completion of one or more post secondary courses that did not result in any degree or award. Wages: earnings or pay of a worker or a group of workers for services performed during a specific period |
Wages | earnings or pay of a worker or a group of workers for services performed during a specific period |
Full time | between 35 and 40 hours, inclusive, of work per week |
Growth rate | the percent change in the number of jobs added or lost in a U.S. occupation or industry over a given projection period; growth rate adjectives used in the OOH are defined by the following percent changes for the 2016–26 employment projections |
Flexible work schedules | schedules of employees who set their own hours within specified guidelines and with a fixed number of total hours |
New job | an addition of a position to an establishment’s payroll, usually as a result of economic expansion |