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Career Prep
Vocabulary
Question | Answer |
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Career | an occupation or profession, especially one requiring special training. |
Resume | a summing up; summary |
Job | a post of employment; full-time or part time position |
FAFSA | (The Free Application for Federal Student Aid) a form that can be prepared annually by current and prospective college students in the United States to determine their eligibility for student financial aid |
Associates Degree | a degree granted especially by junior colleges after completion of two years of study |
Occupation | a person’s usual or principal work or business, especially as a means of earning a living; vocation |
Human Resources | (HR) Department critical component of employee well-bring in any business, no matter how small |
Trade Offs | the exchange of one thing for another of more or less equal value, especially to effect a compromise |
SAT | a standardized test widely used for college admission in the United States |
Transcript | a written, typewritten, or printed copy |
College | an institution of higher learning, especially one providing a general or liberal arts education rather than technical or professional training |
Ability | power or capacity to do or act physically, mental, legally, morally, financially, etc. |
ACT | (The American College Test) help you get accepted into college |
Salary | the amount you are paid in your career |
Core | Class subjects that you must pass in order to graduate |
Financial Aid | a grant/scholarship, loan, or paid employment that’s offered to help any student with financial |
Skill | the ability, coming from one’s knowledge, practice, aptitude, etc., to do something well |
Tuition | the charge or fee for instructions, as at a private scholar a college or university |
Undergraduates | a student in a university or college who has not received a First, especially a bachelor’s, degree |
Master Degree | a degree awarded by a graduate school or department, usually to a person who has completed at least one year of graduate study |
GPA | (Grade Point Average) a number representing the average value of the accumulated final grades earned in course over time |
Apprenticeship | someone learning from another to learn a trade |
Refference | someone can tell someone else good things about you for a good impression |
Interview | a formal meeting in which one or more persons question, consult, or evaluate another person |
Job | specific skills needed for a specific job |
PSAT | (Preliminary SAT) a standardized test administered by the College Board and National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC) in the United States |
Technology | the branch of knowledge that deals with the creation and use of technical means and their interrelation with life, society, and the environment, drawing upon such subjects as industrial arts, engineering, applied science, and pure science |
Transfer of Credits | not guaranteed when one student transfers from institution from another |
Objectives | something that one’s efforts or actions are intended to attain or accomplish; purpose; goal; target |
Applicant | a person applies for or requests something: a candidate |
Doctorial | the highest level of academic degree |
Electives | an optional study; a course that a student may select from among alternatives |
Bachelor's Degree | usually earned for an undergraduate course of study that nominally requires three to five years of study (depending on institution and field of study) |
Higher Education | education beyond high school, especially at a college or university |
Assessment | an education beyond high school, especially at a college or university |
Employer | a person or business that employs one or more people, especially for wages or salary |
Extra-Curricular | these fall outside of the realm the normal curriculum of school |
Qualifications | a qualify or accomplishment that make someone suitable for a particular for a particular job or activity |