Career Terms

Job

• A paid position of regular employment.

• where you work

• An occupation undertaken for a significant period of a person’s life and with opportunities for progress.

Career

• What you want to be when you grow up

• An occupation undertaken for a significant period of a person’s life and with opportunities for progress.

• A paid position of regular employment.

Labor market

• Hard work

• Buying a person to do the work

• The ability of employment and labor in terms of supply and demand.

As class of professional or vocational positions of employment that involves production

• Good producing occupation

• Service producing occupation

• labor market

An occupation of which provides a service to others rather than creating a product

• Good producing occupation

• Service producing occupation

• labor market

White collar

• Dressing nicely

• A person who works in an office or professional environment

• a fancy job

Blue Collar

• A working class person who performs manual labor

• A person who works in an office or professional environment

• a fancy job

Service worker

• working for people

• being a waiter

• A type of web worker

Provides another avenue for a regular staff employee to advance in classification and grade

• Horizontal career ladder

• Vertical career ladder

• career path

Move between positions of similar responsibility in different areas of competence.

• career path

• vertical career ladder

• horizontal career ladder