Chapter 1 - Choosing Your Career

Which of the following would be professional jobs? (There is more than one correct answer)

• Doctor

• Lawyer

• Chef

• Teacher

Which of the following are Service Jobs?

• Waitstaff

• Auto Technician

• Teacher

• Carpenter

Provides in-depth job descriptions and information about job opportunities...

• Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT)

• Occupational Outlook Handbook

• Monthly Labor Review

An evaluation of the positive and negative attributes of a given type of work.

• Job analysis

• Job grading

• Career filing

• Occupational Matching

3 positive features of employment

• Salary

• Benefits

• Transportation

• Promotion Opportunities

2 Negative features of employment

• Employment expenses

• Work characteristics

• Vacation timing

• Retirement expenses

What is an Entrepreneur?

• Someone who organizes, manages and assumes the ownership risks of a new business.

• Someone who develops a new technology.

• Someone who can program machines to do work for several employees.

Choose all the advantages of owning your own business.

• Be your own boss.

• Control your own future.

• High risk of failure.

• Keep all the profits.

Choose all the DISADVANTAGES of owning your own business.

• Control your own future

• High Risk of Failure

• Large investment of time

• Large investment of personal finances.