24/25 Employability Vocabulary

Abilities relating to dealing with persons on the job.

• Interpersonal Skills

• Teamwork Skills

• Networking

• Punctuality

A meeting between an employer and a job applicant.

• Board Meeting

• Interview

• On the Job Training

• Business Luncheon

A person working for someone else and receives wages or salary.

• Employee

• Employer

• Co-Worker

• Trainer

Good work habits/attitudes that help you succeed in a career

• Soft Skills

• transferable skills

• hard skills

• people skills

Standards of behavior people, groups, or society believe to be right and moral

• rights

• ethics

• wrongs

• rules

The ability to understand another person's feelings

• Do other people have feelings?

• listening

• judging

• empathy

You understand the importance of working cooperatively with others and strive to do so

• team skills

• social skills

• organization skills

• professional skills

The skills required to evaluate and use information to make decisions or reach conclusions

• critical thinking

• evaluation

• brain games

• decision making

A fixed regular payment typically paid on a monthly or biweekly basis but often expressed as an annual sum, made by an employer to an employer

• hourly wage

• being paid "under-the-table"

• salary

• bank deposit

The ability to work without constant supervision and solve problems independently

• lazy

• initiative

• unreliable

• employee