Portfolio Final Exam // EPortfolio_TC

Chapter 10 Developing a Positive Attitude // Chapter 10

• Understand how a positive attitude, high self-esteem, and enthusiasm lead to success on the job.
• Describe how to assert yourself at work.
• Handle criticism, workplace pressure, and gossip professionally.
• Control anger on the job.

Chapter 2 Getting to Know Yourself // Chapter 2

• Follow the seven steps in the decision-making process and explain how these steps are helpful in choosing a career.
• Identify your values, interests, aptitudes, personal preferences, and abilities and describe how they affect your career choices.
• Identify and match your personality and learning styles to career choices.

Chapter 3 Researching Careers // Chapter 3

• Research careers using traditional resources, the Internet, and informal strategies.
• Explain how part-time work can help you gain insight in making future career plans.
• Formulate key questions to ask in assessing a career opportunity.
• Understand the characteristics of a career profile.

Chapter 6 Finding and Applying for a Job // Chapter 6

• Explain why networking is effective for developing job leads.
• Create and maintain a career network and contact list.
• Use the Internet and other resources to search for career opportunities.
• Prepare written materials necessary for job-hunting, including applications, résumés, and cover letters.

Chapter 7 Interviewing // Chapter 7

• Identify methods of preparing for interviews.
• Recognize the factors that create an employer’s first impression of a job candidate.
• Anticipate and answer typical and tough interview questions.
• Apply procedures for following up on an interview.
• Recognize proper methods of accepting and rejecting employment.

Chapter 9 Workplace Ethics // Chapter 9 (if time permits)

• Identify and develop the skills that employers look for in employees.
• Explain why ethics are important to employees.
• Describe ways to behave ethically in the workplace.

Chapter 4 Entrepreneurship // Chapter 4 (if time permits)

• Define entrepreneurship and explain its advantages and disadvantages.
• Identify the four main ways of becoming a business owner and explain the advantages and disadvantages of each.
• Describe basic forms of business ownership.
• Describe the processes and decisions involved in establishing a new business.

 

Letter of Introduction  –  Exploratory Interview  –  ReferenceFormat  –  Bills and Expenses

Job Shadow Handouts // Employer Info. Job Shadow Info. Student Info. Shadow Evaluation.