Chapter 1

How Your Choices Affect Income

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What Is the Job Market?

• Job market refers to jobs available for workers.

• A skill set is the unique skills and abilities you bring to the job market.o Hard skills are technical.o Soft skills are nontechnical.

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Job Choices Affect Your Income

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Fastest-Growing Occupations, 2008–18

OccupationExpected Growth

2008–18EducationRequired

Biomedical engineers 72% Bachelor’s degree

Network, systems, and communications analysts 53% Bachelor’s degree

Home health aides 50%Short-term training and on-the-job experience

Financial examiners 46% Bachelor’s degree

Medical scientists 41% Doctoral degree

Physician assistants 39% Master’s degree

Skin care specialists 38% Post-secondary skills

Source: United States Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, http://stats.bls.gov/emp/ep_table_103.htm#.

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Learning about Job Requirements

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• Job title is the name of a job.o Example: Baker

• Job description describes what a job would be like. o Includes: education,

experience, hours, work site, location

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Values and Goals Affect Your Job Choice

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Values: Principal that reflects the worthyou place on an idea or action.

Goal: Desired outcome based on one’sValue for which a plan of action is carried Out.

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How Does Education Affect Your Income?

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Building Communications Skills

Listening• Face and look at the person who is talking.• Focus on what the speaker is saying.• Ignore distractions.• Turn off the phone.• Take notes on the main ideas.• In a conversation, give feedback or nod.• Mentally summarize the main points.

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