CAREER CONNECTIONS

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CAREER CONNECTIONS
Chapter 1
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A. Chapter 1 Key Terms

1. The amount of goods and services you can buy with
   your income is youre absolute earnings.
2. Aggressive is a manner that is unfriendly,
   insulting, domineering, relentless, and
   quarrelsome.
3. Persistent, understanding, and cooperative are
   good words to describe these people who are
   assertive.
4. Your career is the paid and unpaid work you do
   during your lifetime.

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• Cultural diversity is a society with ethnic,
  religious, racial, and political differences.
• To delay gratification is to postpone the
  acquisition of certain things or the
  participation in certain activities
• Dull and tedious labor is drudgery.
• To be paid as much as a co-worker in the same
  occupation is to receive equal pay.
• The personal connections people develop with
  others through their thoughts and behaviors are
  human relationships.

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• The amount of goods and services you can buy with
  your income compared to what your neighbors can
  buy with theirs is your relative earnings.
• 11. Self-concept is how people view their own
  skills, interests, and competence level
• 12. Apologetic, indifferent, passive, and
  yielding behavior is submissive.

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• 13. To be overqualified for the job performed is
  to be underemployed.
• 14. Periodic change in the task, pace, or
  location of the work is variety.

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Choosing Your Career

• Choose a job you love,
• and you will never have to
• work a day in your life.
• Confucius

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B. Who Will You Be?

• The identity stage is a time in a persons life
  in which the question Who am I? arises more and
  more frequently. For example
• What career role will I have?
• Will I have a role as a wife or husband?
• Will I be a parent? If so, what kind of parent
  will I be?

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4. Developing a Career Plan
INCLUDE THESE STEPS IN YOUR CAREER PLAN
a) List interests, abilities, job skills,
achievements, and values
b) Establish short- and long-term goals
Building a bridge to your future.
c) Locate occupational information
d) Identify broad career areas related to your
interests, talents, and values
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Developing a Career Plan (cont.)

1. List occupations within your chosen career area
2. Narrow your occupational choices
3. Plan for needed education and training
4. Learn the necessary job skills
5. Decide sacrifices you are willing to make to
   fulfill your career plan

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5. Are You Submissive?

• Do you go where others decide and do what they
  wish, even if you disagree? People who behave in
  a submissive manner tend to be
• Apologetic
• Indifferent
• Passive
• Yielding

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6. Are You Aggressive?

• Do you refuse to listen to other points of view
  and argue until you get your way? People who
  behave in an aggressive manner tend to be
• Unfriendly
• Insulting
• Domineering
• Relentless
• Quarrelsome

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7. Are You Assertive?

• Do you think for yourself without becoming angry
  or aggressive, and express your feelings and
  values openly and honestly? People who behave in
  an assertive manner tend to be
• Persistent
• Understanding
• Cooperative

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8. Reasons for Working

• Reasons to work include the following
• A paycheck
• Job security
• Human relationships
• The work task
• Career decisions

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9. Human Relationships

• To establish and maintain effective
  communication, all workers need the following
• A feeling of being important and appreciated
• Independence to accomplish their job tasks

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• Recognition from other workers that they are
  understood and accepted
• Knowledge that evaluations are fair
• Knowledge that loyalty will be rewarded

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10. High Level of Job Satisfaction

1. Paycheck satisfies realistic lifestyle desires
2. High skill level provides security and job
   choices
3. Job provides prestige
4. Coworkers are cooperative and supportive

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• Management has a high regard for the workers
  performance
• Work is interesting
• The worker values the work tasks

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11. Average Level of Job Satisfaction

1. Paycheck covers more than basic necessities
2. Seniority and job skills provide some security
3. Job provides respect at work and at home

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• Coworkers are usually pleasant
• Supervisor usually approves of workers
  performance
• Work is usually interesting
• Tasks often require full use of workers skills

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12. Low Level of Job Satisfaction

1. Paycheck covers basic necessities
2. Security depends on the economy and approval of
   supervisor
3. Job is considered menial by others

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• Most coworkers are unpleasant or unconcerned
• Supervisor is demanding and lacks understanding
• Work is boring and repetitious

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13. Job Effectiveness

• Your effectiveness on the job will depend to a
  great degree on the match between
• Yourself
• The job task
• The workplace

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CAREER CONNECTIONS

• Chapter 1
• ITS YOUR TURN