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Chap 1 - Career Exp
Chap 1 - Career Exploration ELL version
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Benefits | Are company-provided supplements to salary examples are: sick pay, vacation time, profit-sharing plans, and health insurance |
| Salary | Is the amount of monthly or annual pay that you will earn for your labor |
| Job analysis | Is an evaluation of the positive and negative attributes of a given type of work. |
| Promotion | The action of raising someone to a higher position or rank or the fact of |
| Entrepreneur | Someone who organizes, manages, and assumes the ownership risks of a new business |
| Upgrading | Advancing to a higher level of skill to increase your usefulness to an employer |
| Retraining | Learning new and different skills so that an employee can retain the same level of employability. |
| Advanced degrees | specialized, intensive programs (taken after obtaining the first college degree) that prepare students for higher-level work responsibilities with more challenges and higher pay. |
| Networks | Informal communication structures that are established for people to talk to each other and share information |
| Employee expenses | Things that are not paid for by the employer such as uniforms and the cleaning of uniforms. |
| Networking | Meeting people that could have information that will help you in your career |
| Laid off | To cease (stop) employing a worker |
| Annual | Occurring once every year |
| Annually | Yearly |
| Profit Sharing | When companies share their profits with their employees. |