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Chapter 3
| 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 psychologists 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 |
| Interest inventories | surveys designed to help you relate your interest to career clusters |
| Internal career design | unique to you watching 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 |
| Skills assessment | measures how well you perform specific tasks now and whether you can master karting skills in the future |
| Work values | aspects about a career and the workplace that are important to you |