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Unit 3 Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Assessment | way of collecting and evaluating data for measurement purposes. |
| Career day | an event that allows you to talk with many businesses at one time. |
| Career fair | an organized time that allows you to listen to and interact with people in careers that interest you |
| Formal assessment | written by a psychologist and career counselors who research careers and career skills to create the tests. |
| Informal assessment | activities in which you talk to someone working in a career, work in a specific career, or observe someone working in a career. |
| Informational interview | talking to people about careers to gather facts and gain an understanding about a career area you are considering |
| Interest inventories | surveys designed to help you relate your interests to career clusters |
| Internal Career Design | unique to you, matching your interests, abilities, personality, and work values to an ideal career field for you. |
| Job shadowing | an informal assessment activity where you spend several hours observing a worker at his or her workplace. |
| Personality assessment | the results reveal the behavior style that makes you unique |
| Self-assessment | the results of these tests are based on what you think of yourself |
| Self-awareness | knowing yourself at the present time |
| Service learning | volunteering your time to help an organization or the community |
| Skill-assessment | measures how well you perform a specific tasks now and weathe ryou can master certain skills in the future |
| Work values | aspects about a career and the workplace yjay are important to you |