Career Achievement - Chapter 2

transferable skills

What name is given to skills that appear to be useful in multiple different careers?

personality

Which of the following are considered most important to determining a person's career goals?

those skills lacking to obtain chosen job

Which of the following best describes personal "skills gap".

Transferable skills acquired from college will empower graduates with skills needed for jobs that haven't yet been created/invented.

Which of the following best describes the usefulness of a college education?

matching personality with the work

Which of the following could potentially be the most important influence on the normal workings of a business?

take a personality assessment

Which of the followings seems to be a good, low-cost/time idea to invest in while deciding on a career?

values

Workplace ________ are a collection of "norms" or "a code of conduct" that a workplace has which everyone generally conforms to so busy gets done.

a collection of values that are upheld and honored in the work place

Workplace values is best define as __________.

needed for employment often times, highly specialized these skills can be acquired on the job

Identify all the characteristics that best describes "job-specific skills"?

functional knowledge of engineering computational knowledge of statistics many experiences in leadership/managerial

Identify all transferable skills.

good empathy/sympathy skills a tendency to take initiative when appropriate a tendency to ask for help when appropriate

Identify any skills that are considered "soft skills".

Introversion/extroversion Attitude Supporting

Identify factors that a personality assessment could yield.

vocabulary

The "skills __________" is a collection of all the marketable skills a person has to showcase to a potential employer.

personality

The Keirsey Assessment is designed to help you determine your ___________.

job-specific skill

The ability of an employee to track shipments using a proprietary software package for a company would be an example of a ______.

understand your personal values

Think for a bit about this: which of the following appears to be a "big" first step in identifying your career?

hard

Those skills that specialized training was needed to acquire are categorized as _________ skills.

skills vocabulary

A summation of all a person's skills applicable to a job market is often called a(n) _____________.

Job: company that uses recycled plastics for the construction of solar panels

Alice is a strong advocate for reducing global warming

achievements

An important habit to have is recording your ____ as you navigate through higher education. You will need this information for your portfolio/resume.

Career goal: take classes in music/dance so he/she can make a difference

Ankit strongly values making people happy

debt free after putting myself through college learned a new language ran a 10k marathon top of my class in nutrition

Identify all examples of achievements that could be useful on a resume or in a portfolio.

active listener neatness about one's workplace great memory

Identify all examples of adaptive skills.

knowledge of anatomy excel spreadsheet skills automotive mechanic skills effective writing skills

Identify all examples of hard skills.

a portfolio consisting of many measurable achievements

If you were a prospective employer, which of the following should like the best employee to hire?

career goals

Knowing your values can help you in identifying your _______.

transferable skills

Many of the skills acquired from a college degree are called _____.

Career goal: take classes in government policy so he/she can make a difference

Sam strongly values a clear/transparent process

job-specific skill

The capacity of an employee to program in a proprietary computer language for a company would be an example of a ______.

transferable

The skills that are typically acquired by training/education can sometimes be applied to multiple careers and therefore, these skills increase marketability/flexibility. These skills are often called ______ skills because of the ability to apply these skills to other careers.

False

True or false: Brand identity beings ONLY when a person enrolls in college or begins seeking employment.

False

True or false: Your skills gap is defined as those skills which are not necessary for the new position.

their attitudes are different

Two people can experience the same event yet have completely opposite personal perceptions. Which of the following is most probably the difference between the two people?

soft; technical

It is possible for ___ skills to be more important to an employer than ___ skills because the latter can be taught and the former is often "unteachable".

Job: company that generates plastics using fossil fuels

Jake is a strong advocate for global warming being part of the natural earth cycle

Choice, Career goal: take classes in home health care and hospice so he/she can make a difference

Jane strongly values self-sacrifice

skills

Many times, it is important for a person's ____ to match the work activities as it is an expectation to be capable of doing the work on the first day.

introverted

Part of the Keirsey Temperament Sorter, or similar personality assessment tools, will codify aspects of a person's personality. For example, if a person says he/she does not enjoy being part of a group to solve problems, then the person is often called ______.

soft

People skills are considered _______ skills.

achievement

Scoring at the top of the class and designing a solution to a well-known problem are considered to be ____ and should be included on a person's resume/portfolio.

starts posting on the internet

Simply stated, brand identity begins as soon as a person _____.

adaptive

Soft skills that are related to your work are called _________ skills.

job specific skills

Some types of employment requires a collection of skills. These skills care called _____.

best align a person's passions with the work

The data indicate that the careers which are the most rewarding, tend to _______.

Brand

_________ identity is the image that a person wants peers and prospective employers to know about them and it should be an important marketable factor considered by all job seekers.

your image that others see of you

Brand identity can be best personally described as _____.

soft

Examination of the top 10 skills sought by employers as listed by the National Association of Colleges and Employer's Job Outlook 2014, those skills appear to be mostly _____ skills.