Employability Skills Key Terms - 8th

What are the characteristics to help find the right job or career?

• Skill, trade, and aptitude.
• Interest, skill, ability, and aptitude.
• Trade, school, and work ethic

Aptitude is defined by the ...

• ability to perform a task due to training and experience.
• potential a person has for learning a skill.
• activity one likes to do.
• skill you have already developed.

Interest is defined by the ...

• ability to perform a task due to training and experience.
• potential a person has for learning a skill.
• activity one likes to do.
• skill you have already developed.

Skill is defined by the ...

• ability to perform a task due to training and experience.
• potential a person has for learning a skill.
• activity one likes to do.
• skill you have already developed.

Ability is defined by the ...

• ability to perform a task due to training and experience.
• potential a person has for learning a skill.
• activity one likes to do.
• skill you have already developed.

What are personal qualities and/or employability skills employers look for?

• Initiative, self-motivation, teamwork
• cooperation, punctuality, adaptability
• confidence, integrity, honesty
• All of these

Initiative is defined by the ...

• drive to do something simply for the reward of feeling good and satisfied once it is accomplished.
• willingness to do what needs to be done without being told to do it.
• working together collaboratively with a group to set goals, make decisions, solve problems, and put ideas into action.
• working with others to reach a common goal.

Self-motivation is defined by the ...

• drive to do something simply for the reward of feeling good and satisfied once it is accomplished.
• willingness to do what needs to be done without being told to do it.
• working together collaboratively with a group to set goals, make decisions, solve problems, and put ideas into action.
• working with others to reach a common goal.

Teamwork is defined by the ...

• drive to do something simply for the reward of feeling good and satisfied once it is accomplished.
• willingness to do what needs to be done without being told to do it.
• working together collaboratively with a group to set goals, make decisions, solve problems, and put ideas into action.
• working with others to reach a common goal.

Cooperation is defined by the ...

• drive to do something simply for the reward of feeling good and satisfied once it is accomplished.
• willingness to do what needs to be done without being told to do it.
• working together collaboratively with a group to set goals, make decisions, solve problems, and put ideas into action.
• working with others to reach a common goal.