Review Guide for Chapter 3

Importance of career and job satisfaction, difference between a career and a job, ways people limit themselves in terms of selection, factors to consider in career satisfaction including but not limited to: interests and skills, work orientations and values, personality preferences, factors to consider in job selection, use of salary calculations, eustress related to job selection, goal achievement and the importance of wants replacing shoulds, ways of assessing goals, obstacles related to achieving goals, the importance of actions steps, pinpointing, and intermediate dates, reaons to research employers, information sources including the Internet, informational review, job shadowing, "shotgun" approach, sources of leads, college placement services, government agencies, "word-of-mouth" possibilities, networking, major reason employers hire certain individuals, professional and personal references and how to proceed in using direct contact with employers, 3-step telephone method and responses to various replies, newspaper classified advertisements and their limitations, online postings, public and provate employment agencies and "headhunters", temporary work, internships and work-study programs, volunteer work, ways to handle rejection.

Please use this review to study.

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