Invest in Yourself vocab

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

• Career cluster

• Career

• Lifestyle

• Job

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

• Industry

• Job

• Career cluster

• Career

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

• Transferable skills

• Job

• Human capital

• Formal continuing education

The skills, knowledge, and experiences possessed by an individual

• Human capital

• Formal continuing education

• Standard living

• Transferable skills

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

• Job

• Occupation

• Industry

• Career cluster

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

• Career

• Formal continuing education

• Human capital

• Informal continuing education

An activity through which an individual can earn money

• Career

• Lifestyle

• Occupation

• Job

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

• Standard of living

• Lifestyle

• Occupation

• Human capital

Grouping of jobs that perform similar tasks

• Occupation

• Standard of living

• Career

• Career cluster

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

• Lifestyle

• Standard of living

• Career

• Job