CCR Unit 2 Vocabulary

Job Outlook

• demand and availability of an occupation; factors in size of an industry and its rate of growth
• combination of surroundings, conditions or influences
• a thing which is regarded as more important than others
• a person's principles of standards of behavior; one's judgment of what is important in life
• to stop developing, growing, progressing or advancing

Benefits

• 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
• demand and availability of an occupation; factors in size of an industry and its rate of growth
• combination of surroundings, conditions or influences
• a thing which is regarded as more important than others
• a person's principles of standards of behavior; one's judgment of what is important in life

Reliability

• extent to which an assessment yields the same result on repeated trials
• 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
• demand and availability of an occupation; factors in size of an industry and its rate of growth
• combination of surroundings, conditions or influences
• a thing which is regarded as more important than others

Validity

• extent to which an assessment measures what it claims to measure
• extent to which an assessment yields the same result on repeated trials
• 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
• demand and availability of an occupation; factors in size of an industry and its rate of growth
• combination of surroundings, conditions or influences

Volunteering

• act of offering services without the expectation of payment
• extent to which an assessment measures what it claims to measure
• extent to which an assessment yields the same result on repeated trials
• 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
• demand and availability of an occupation; factors in size of an industry and its rate of growth

Job Shadowing

• program in which students learn about an occupation by following a professional throughout the work day
• act of offering services without the expectation of payment
• extent to which an assessment measures what it claims to measure
• extent to which an assessment yields the same result on repeated trials
• 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

Virtual Job Shadowing

• job shadowing experienced through the Internet via video interviews
• program in which students learn about an occupation by following a professional throughout the work day
• act of offering services without the expectation of payment
• extent to which an assessment measures what it claims to measure
• extent to which an assessment yields the same result on repeated trials

Internship

• 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
• job shadowing experienced through the Internet via video interviews
• program in which students learn about an occupation by following a professional throughout the work day
• act of offering services without the expectation of payment
• extent to which an assessment measures what it claims to measure

Apprenticeship

• working for another person to learn a trade
• 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
• job shadowing experienced through the Internet via video interviews
• program in which students learn about an occupation by following a professional throughout the work day
• act of offering services without the expectation of payment

Post-Secondary Education

• optional level of schooling beyond what is required by law; also known as higher education or tertiary education; includes all education beyond the high school level, such as vocational training and college
• working for another person to learn a trade
• 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
• job shadowing experienced through the Internet via video interviews
• program in which students learn about an occupation by following a professional throughout the work day