Competency 6.00 Vocabulary
UNIT:C
Decision Making/Career Planning
CM06.00
Create a job application package and career portfolio.
VOCABULARY
Attribute: Quality or characteristic inherent in or ascribed to someone or something.
Cafeteria benefits plan: Plan that allows employees to choose the benefits they want.
Career portfolio: Collection of accomplishments which showcases an applicant’s skills,
interests and abilities; work samples.
Chronological: The science that deals with determining details and events.
Competence: Acceptable levels of achievement.
Contact list: List of people one knows who might be helpful in a job search.
Cover letter: A letter of introduction and purpose; a one-page letter a job seeker sends to an
employer telling them who he/she is and why he/she is sending a resume.
E-mail: (Electronic mail) Message delivered to a computer from another.
Electronic resume: A resume sent via the Internet.
Employment Security Commission (ESC): Public government employment agency in North
Carolina.
FICA: Amount of social security tax withheld from a paycheck.
Flextime: A plan that allows employees to set their own work schedules within a wide range
of hours.
Follow-up letter: Brief letter written in business form to thank the interviewer for the
interview.
401(k) program: Type of retirement program offered to employees; contributions can be paid
out tax free at any time.
Fringe benefits: Any financial extras beyond the regular pay check, such as health
insurance, life insurance, paid vacation and/or retirement.
Gross pay: Amount of salary or wages earned for a certain period of time before deductions
are withheld.
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Competency 6.00 Vocabulary
VOCABULARY CONTINUED
Honesty: Truthfulness; sincerity.
Interview: A formal, personal meeting, esp. one arranged for formal discussion or to evaluate
an applicant.
Job application: Document that job seekers fill out so employers can use it to screen
applicants.
Job lead: Information about a job opening.
Letter of application: Letter written to an employer to apply for a job.
Net pay: Amount of income left after taxes and deductions have been taken out.
Networking: Communicating with people one knows or can get to know to share information
and share advice.
Occupational skills: Learned abilities to perform tasks or duties of a specific occupation.
Private employment agencies: Help employers locate workers and job seekers; locate jobs
for a fee.
Professionalism: The ability to handle problems and criticism gracefully and maturely.
Psychological test: Pre-employment exams given to find out more about a job applicant’s
personality, character, and interests.
Referral: Recommendation from a contact who is part of one’s network.
Resume: A summary of one’s personal information, education, skills, activities, interests, and
employment experience.
Salary: Fixed amount of pay for a certain period of time, usually a month or a year.
Unemployed: Not working and looking for work.
W-4 Form: Employee’s Withholding Allowance Certificate that shows the employer how much
tax to withhold from an employee’s check.
Work ethic: How a person feels about his or her job and the effort he or she puts into it.
Work permit: Written statement that makes is legal for an underage student to work for an
employer.
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