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Powell- Study Guide
Question | Answer |
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How should you best overcome anxiety? | Anticipate it, face it, and take personal responsibility for overcoming it |
Your mission in life may change throughout your life? True/False | True |
This training option allows you to spend part of your time on the job and part in the classroom. While you are still learning, you will usually earn 40%-60% of the normal salary. | Apprentieship |
As you outline your plan for the future, you need to consider at least 4 factors for each year of your plan. Those factors are? | Education/Training Living Arrangements Employment Finances |
Your definition of success is innate and doesn't change over time. True/False | False |
The (blank) process is usually the final step in the job-hunting process. | Interview |
When returning a completed job application to a potential employer, you will be asked to sign and date it, which? | Indicates that the information you provided on the application is true and complete. Gives them the right to contact schools, former employers, or references to verify your answers |
A resume should? | not be several pages long, not included a current picture of you, and not contain inaccurate information |
What should you avoid doing at an informational interview? | Asking for a job Staying as long as it takes to get your questions answered |
Social media can help or hurt you depending on what you post. True/False | True |
A "functional" resume is: | a resume in which your experience is listed by the major skills you've used rather than by individual jobs |
Work is an (blank) act | aggressive |
A formula for success from Chapter 1 of Career Choices said Vision + Energy = Success. Taking that formula a step further, you might say that High Standards + Unusual Efforts = (?) | Excellence |
Aggressive behavior is often an ingredient in workplace success. "Aggressive" in this sense means? | Taking initiative |
Which of the following are not included in the Six E's of Excellence? | Eagerness and Earnestness |
How should affirmations be used? | To improve your own attitude |
Women who prepare for more professional-level careers through higher education usually (blank) and have (blank) in their work lives. | Earn more More flexibility |
The more specific your goals and objectives are, the (blank) they will be. | More helpful |
What is not a good reason for permanently giving up your dreams? | Not having enough money |
The most satisfied people are those who actively set and reach (blank) goals throughout their lives. | New |
Getting what you want differs from deciding what you want in one very important way: it requires action. Is this statement true or false? | True |
Once you know what your choices are, you need to find out as much as you can about each option so you can make what? | Informed decision |
As the world changes, or as your own values, wants, and needs evolve, you will need to make adjustments - new decisions. True/False | True |
Decisions can be-and often should be: | Reviewed Changed Updated |
When identifying a career that you would find most satisfying you should: | Evaluate existing resources Gather information Evaluate your wants and needs |
A comprehensive decision-making model includes key steps to follow. Which step is first? | Define your goal |
Self-respect | Dignity |
Means of making a living or providing financial support | Livelihood |
Predicting something that is to come | Prophecies |
A strong excitement or eagerness | Enthusiasm |
How you feel towards something | Attitude |
Confidence in the truth of something | Beliefs |
Intended to destroy; ruinous | Destructive |
The purpose for which effort exerted; aim | Goal |
To move forward with troubles or against obstacles | Struggle |
Theoretical; hypothetical | Abstract |
To praise inordinately especially when inspired by self-interest | Flatter |
The driving force; incentive | Motivation |
How details are treated in a certain trade or art; methodology | Technique |
Enticement; something tempting | Temptation |
Self-control | Discipline |
Being "in on" a secret | Privy |
Bravery; nerve; gut | Courage |