Career Development Concepts

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Work-life Balance

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Refers to the way individuals manage their time and energy between career activities and home activities.

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Job Outlook

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Demand and availability of an occupation; factors in size of an industry and its rate of growth.

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Benefits

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Services or rights provided by employers in addition to wages or salary; includes health, dental and life insurance, paid vacation time and sick leave, and retirement plan options.

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Reliability

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Extent to which an assessment yields the same result on repeated trials.

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Validity

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Extent to which an assessment measures what it claims to measure.

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Volunteering

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Act of offering services without the expectation of payment.

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Job Shadowing

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Program in which students learn about an occupation by following a professional throughout the work day.

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Virtual Job Shadowing

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Job shadowing experienced through the Internet via video interviews.

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Internship

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Temporary form of employment with an emphasis on supervised on-the-job training; may be paid or unpaid and may be part-time or full-time.

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Apprenticeship

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Working for another person to learn a trade.