Earning Unit Vocabulary

A lifetime journey of building and applying skills, knowledge, and experiences in paid employment positions.

• Career cluster

• Career

• Job

• Occupation

Grouping of occupations and industries based on the knowledge and skills required.

• Industry

• Transferable skills

• Career cluster

• Career

Training for a specifc set of new skills provided by experts in a particular field.

• Formal continuing education

• Human capital

• Lifestyle

• Cost of living

The skills, knowledge, and experiences possessed by an individual.

• Transferable skills

• Job

• Employee benefits

• Human capital

Group of establishments (businesses) that produce similar products or provide similar services.

• Standard of living

• Industry

• Job

• Lifestyle

Occurs through social interactions, networking, life's experiences, and reading.

• Job

• Formal continuing education

• Occupation

• Informal continuing education

An activity through which an individual can earn money.

• Occupation

• Career cluster

• Job

• Career

Your habits, attitudes, tastes, moral standards and the amount of goods and services that you consume.

• Lifestyle

• Standard of living

• Cost of living

• Industry

Grouping of jobs that perform similar tasks.

• Career cluster

• Lifestyle

• Occupation

• Human capital

The level of material comfort as measured by the goods, services, and luxuries you are able to purchase.

• Employee benefits

• Standard of living

• Cost of living

• Lifestyle