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Invest in yourself and preparing for higher education
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Career | A lifetime journey of building and applying skills, knowledge, and experiences in paid employment position |
| Career cluster | Grouping of occupations and industries based on knowledge and skills required |
| Formal continuing education | Training for a specific set of new skills provided by experts in a particular field |
| Human capital | The skills, knowledge, and experiences possessed by an individual |
| Industry | Group of establishments (businesses) that produce similar products or provide similar services |
| Informal continuing education | Occurs through social interactions, networking, life's experiences, and reading |
| Job | An activity through which an individual can earn money |
| lifestyle | Your habits, attitudes, tastes, moral standards and the amount of goods and services that you consume |
| Occupation | Grouping of jobs that perform similar tasks |
| Standard of living | The level of material comfort as measured by the goods, services, and luxuries you are able to purchase |
| Transferable Skills | Versatile skills that are applied to personal and professional roles |
| Remediation | Sequences of increasingly advanced courses designed to bring academically under-prepared students to the academic skill level expected when entering higher education |