Career Testing & Investigation

refers to the way individuals manage their time and energy between career

activities and home activities

• Volunteering

• Reliability

• Work-life Balance

• Job Outlook

demand and availability of an occupation; factors in size of an industry and its

rate of growth

• Volunteering

• Reliability

• Work-life Balance

• Job Outlook

services or rights provided by employers in addition to wages or salary;

includes health, dental and life insurance, paid vacation time and sick leave

and retirement plan options

• Volunteering

• Benefits

• Work-life Balance

• Job Outlook

extent to which an assessment yields the same result on repeated trials

• Reliability

• Benefits

• Work-life Balance

• Job Outlook

extent to which an assessment measures what it claims to measure

• Reliability

• Validity

• Work-life Balance

• Job Outlook

act of offering services without the expectation of payment

• Reliability

• Volunteering

• Job Shadowing

• Job Outlook

program in which students learn about an occupation by following a

professional throughout the work day

• Reliability

• Volunteering

• Job Shadowing

• Job Outlook

job shadowing experienced through the Internet via video interviews

• Reliability

• Volunteering

• Job Shadowing

• Virtual Job Shadowing

temporary form of employment with an emphasis on supervised on-the-job

training; may be paid or unpaid and may be part-time or full-time

• Reliability

• Volunteering

• Job Shadowing

• Internship

working for another person to learn a trade

• Apprenticeship

• Volunteering

• Job Shadowing

• Internship