| A | B |
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| career | A lifetime journey of building and applying skills, knowledge, and experiences in paid employment positions |
| career cluster | Grouping of occupations and industries based on the knowledge and skills required |
| formal continuing education | Training for a specific set of new skills provided by experts in a particular field |
| human capital | The skills, knowledge, and experiences possessed by an individual |
| Industry | Group of establishments (businesses) that produce similar products or provide similar services |
| Informal continuing education | Occurs through social interactions, networking, life’s experiences, and reading |
| Job | An activity through which an individual can earn money |
| Lifestyle | Your habits, attitudes, tastes, moral standards and the amount of goods and services that you consume |
| Occupation | Grouping of jobs that perform similar tasks |
| Standard of living | The level of material comfort as measured by the goods, services, and luxuries you are able to purchase |
| Transferable skills | Versatile skills that are applied to personal and professional roles |
| Remediation | Sequences of increasingly advanced courses designed to bring academically underprepared students to the academic skill level expected when entering higher education |
| Backwards Planning | A strategy in which you start with the end goal and plan backwards to determine the steps needed to get to that end goal |
| Career Pathway | A series of connected education and training programs that allow you to secure a job and then to advance within an industry or occupation |
| Debt-to-income ratio | A standard tool that calculates whether a borrower will have difficulty meeting his or her loan repayment obligations |
| Job outlook | The demand for a particular job when you are qualified and ready to enter the field |
