Connect the Dots: How School Skills Become Work Skills

Middle school is too early to think about career issues.

• True

• False

Some of my school subjects have no connection to the work I'll do someday.

• True

• False

You can be fired from a job for completing an assignment late.

• True

• False

Employers think people with good attitudes make better overall employees because they do better work.

• True

• False

The way you dress will be less important on the job than it is in school.

• True

• False

Good communicators are very aware of the feelings of others.

• True

• False

Employers don't want their employees to take time from their work to ask questions.

• True

• False

Some subjects in school don't help develop critical thinking skills.

• True

• False

It doesn't matter what kind of solution you use as long as you solve the problem.

• True

• False

Most future employees won't need to be able to read or write well.

• True

• False