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1.Periodical

A magazine or newspaper published at regular intervals.

2.Service Learning

A teaching an learning strategy that integrates meaningful community service with instruction and reflection to enrich the learning experience, teach ciivic responsibility, and strengthen communities.

3.Occupational Outlook Handbook (OOH)

A publication of the US Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics that includes information about the nature of work, working conditions, training and education, earnings, and job outlook for hundreds of different occupations.

4.Occupational Info Network (O*NET)

A free online database that contains hundreds of occupational definitions to help students, job seekers, businesses and workforce development professionals to understand today's world of work in the United States.

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North Carolina Department of Public Instruction

Implement the state's public school laws and State Board of Education's policies and procedures governing pre-kindergarten through 12th grade publication. The guiding mission of the North Carolina State Board of Education is that every public school student will graduate from high school globally competitive for work and postsecondary education and prepared for life in the 21st century.
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Services

Intangible products such as accounting, banking, cleaning, consultancy, education, insurance, expertise, medical treatment, or transportation. We pay someone to do something for us because: we do not want to do it, don't have the time or don't have the expertise.
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Shift Work

Recurring periods in which different groups of workers do the same job rotation.
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Traditional Career

Earlier, women were confined to traditional roles such as housewives but now they also want to contribute to the family budget. The only hassle is that women in the job market have often been confined to undertake traditional jobs rather than being allowed to undertake challenging jobs that men usually take up.
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Transferable Skills

Aptitude and knowledge acquired through personal experience such as schooling, jobs, classes, hobbies, sports etc. Basically any talent developed and able to be used in future employment.
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Trade

A skilled job, typically one requiring manual skills and special training.
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Strategy

A plan of action or policy designed to achieve a major or overall aim.
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Standard Industrial Classification (SIC)

A system fro classifying industries by a four-digit code, used by government agencies to classify industry areas.
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Standard Occupational Classification

System is used by federal statistical agencies to classify workers into occupational categories for the purpose of collecting, calculating, or disseminating data. All workers are classified into one of 840 detailed occupations according to their occupational definition. To facilitate classification, detailed occupations are combined to from 461 broad occupations, 97 minor groups, and 23 major groups.
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Myth

A widely held but false belief or idea.
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Job-Shadowing

Work experience option where students learn about a job by walking through the work day as a shadow to a competent worker. The job shadowing work experience is a temporary, unpaid exposure to the work place in a occupational area of interest to the student.
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Clerical

(of a job or person) concerned with or relating to work in an office, especially routine documentation and administrative tasks.
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Compatibility

A state in which two things are able to exist or occur together without problems or conflict.
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Classify

Arrange (a group of people to things) in classes or categories according to shared qualities or characteristics.
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Autonomy

Freedom from external control or influence; independence.
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America's Learning Exchange

Now part of careeronestop.org
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American Career InfoNet

Now part of careeronestop.org
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Current

Belonging to the present time; happening or being used or done now.
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Dictionary of Occupational Titles

Defunct publication produced by the United States Department of Labor which matched job seekers to jobs from 1938 to the late 1990s. It was then rendered obsolete and replaced by a database which is largely informed by people who have direct experience working in each occupation, the Occupational Information Network or the O*NET.
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Intrinsic

Belonging naturally; ff or relating to the essential nature of a thing.
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Job Security

The probability that an individual will keep his or her job; a job with a high level of a high level of job security is such that a person with the job would have a small chance of becoming unemployed.
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Informational Interview

A meeting between you and a professional to seek advice and insight on their career, the industry, and the cooperate culture of a potential future workplace;. The purpose is to help define the career options.
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Goal

The object of a person's ambition or effort; an aim or desired result.
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DOL Employment of Training Administration

Mission of the Employment and Training Administration (ETA) is to contribute to the more efficient functioning of the U.S. labor market by providing high quality job training, employment, labor market information, and income maintenance services primarily through state and local workforce development systems.
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Accurate

Correct in all details; exact.