| A | B |
|---|
| Advancement opportunity | A chance to move forward into a new role in a company. |
| Attainable goal | A reachable goal. |
| Career | An occupation undertaken for a significant period of a person's life and with opportunities for progress. |
| Career ladder | A sequence of related jobs–from entry-level to advanced–available at different education/training levels. |
| Entry-level | Type of job that typically requires minimal education, training, and experience. |
| Job promotion | When an employee advances to a position that is classified at a higher salary grade, or in certain circumstances, an acknowledgment of significant greater responsibilities within the same grade. |
| Long term | Involving or in effect for a number of years. |
| Occupation | A person's regular work or profession, job, or principal activity. |
| Personal goal | Goals that one wants to achieve. |
| Realistic | Objects, actions, or social conditions as they actually are. |
| Seniority | The amount of time an employee has worked for a company. |
| Service learning | Combining classroom instruction with meaningful community service. |
| Short term goals | Indicators that take less than a year to achieve. |
| Skills | The ability to perform a task that is developed through knowledge, training, and practice. |
| Stepping-stone goal | Short, medium, and long-term goals that can help you reach your ultimate career goal in realistic stages, allow adjustments to be made to the career plan. |
| Transfer | Lateral movement of employees within the same grade, from one job to another. |
| Transferrable skills | The skills that you use in every job, no matter the title or the field. |
| Ultimate goal | The goal one will seek to fulfill above all other goals. |
| Values | The principles by which you live, the ideas, morals, and characteristics that are the most important to you. |
| Volunteer | Individual who donates time to complete a project. |
