| A | B |
|---|
| Abilities | Natural or acquired skill or talent. |
| Ability | Developed Skill |
| Age Discrimination Act of 1967 | Passed to prohibit discrimination against people between forty and seventy years of age. |
| American with Disablities Act | 1992 Give civil rights projections to those provided on the basis of race, sex, national orgin, age, and religion: EOC administers these laws. |
| Aptitudies | Developed abilities: those things that one is good at doing: potential for learning skills. |
| Assessment | The act of evaluation |
| Attitude | One's outlook on life: how one reacts to a situation |
| Auditory | Relating to the sense of hearing |
| Career | An occupation or profession followed as a life's work. |
| change | To make or bevcome different; to replace with another |
| Cobra | Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act: law to provide terminated employees or those who lose insurance coverage because of reduced work to be able to buy group insurance for themselves and their families for a limited amount of time. |
| Compassion | To care deeply about other people and thier well-being |
| Divorce | The leagal dissoulution of a marriage |
| Dexterity | Proficiency in using the body or hands |
| Equal Employment Opportunities Commission (EEOC) | Enforces laws to prevent unfair treatment on the job due to sex, race, colo, religion, national origin, disability, or age. |
| Ethics | The principles of conduct that govern a group or society |
| Family Medical Leave Act | 1993: Requires employers with 50 or more workers to grant up to 12 weeks of unpaid leaves a year to allow workers to make time off to help care for a new baby or an ill family member without fear of losing thier jobs. |
| Fair Labor Standards Act | Sets minimum way, requires over-time pay for time worked over 40 hours, and rstricts the employment of minors. |
| Fatigue | Wearing from labor or stress; tired |
| Formal assessment | Standardized written or performance test of knowledge, aptitude values, etc. |
| gender Identity | Sexual Identity; a person knowing that thier sex is permanent and cannot be changed |
| Generativity | State of human development often referred to as the "working years", between a person's late twenties and early sixties, when he or she is productive in the world of work, develop a family and re-examines personal beliefs and values |
| Hobby | A pursuit or interest engaged in for relaxation |
| Holland Codes | Codes (career personality type) Developed by Dr. John Holland based on the assumption that people canbe grouped into six personality types. These codes can be compared to characteristics important to occupations. |
| Individual | Pertaining to one only |
| Integrity | Following a strict code of conduct or standard of values |
| Interests | Activities, things,and ideas a person likes and enjoys |
| Inerest Inventory | A periodic survey of a person's interest |
| Interpersonal | Relationships between persons. |
| Intrapersonal | Relates to independent action |
| Inventory | An account of things |
| Job | To do occasionall pieces of work for hire; task |
| Kinesthetic | Relates to interaction with people and objects in real space. |
| Layoff | an involuntary separation of the employee from the employer for a temporary or indefinite period, through no fault of the employee. |
| Learning Styles | The ways people think and learn |
| Leisure | Time free from every-day job responsibilities during which a person can pursure personal interests and hobbies. |
| Life Roles | The various parts of one's life, such as citizen, parent, spouse, worker, etc. |
| Life Stages | Changes that occur as we move through life experiences |
| Lifestyle | The way a person lives his or her life, including geographic location, type of home, method of transportation, and social situation. |
| Linguistic | Pertaining to the use of language. |
| Logical | Use of reliable inference and reasoning |
| Marriage | The leagal unions of a man and woman as husband and wife |
| Naturalist | Interested in natural environments |
| Occupational Changes | Changes in job status. |
| Parenthood | The state or relationship of being a parent |
| Pink slip | Notice of termination |
| Reduction in force | The employment of fewer people |
| Rehabilitation Act of 1973 | Extended protection to those with physical or mental hadicaps |
| Resources | Those things that a person can use to help reach goals. |
| Responsibility | a willingness to accept an obigation and be accountable or an action or situation. |
