Book of Careers

Introduction to Career Administration (hereinafter, the Lecture) is a lecture introducing the learners to career administration and related topics. The Lecture is the fourth of five lectures of Careerprise Orientation (hereinafter, the Orientation).

Outline

Introduction to Recruitment is the predecessor lecture.

1. Career administration. The process or activity of running an enterprise, which objectives are (a) discovering somebody's vocation, (b) identifying somebody's target occupation, (c) locating somebody's target employment, (d) analysis of somebody's KSAs, (e) development of somebody's employment credentials, and (f) landing somebody's job in the target occupation.
   • Vocation. A strong feeling called "calling" of suitability for a particular career or occupation.
   • Occupation. A job, profession, and/or position that somebody works in.
2. Employment credential. A qualification, achievement, personal quality, or aspect of a person's background used to indicate that this person is suitable for particular employment.
   • Self-declared credential. An employment credential that hasn't been verified yet or cannot be verified.
   • Work sample. Some product of one's performance intended to show his or her capacity especially as an employment credential.
   • Work sample portfolio. A range of work samples offered by an employment candidate especially when considered for employment.
3. Third-party credential. A credential issued by a third party.
   • Employment authorization. A government authorization of someone's eligibility to be employed. An employment authorization document is usually called a work permit.
   • Driving record. A motor vehicle operator report that is kept by the motor vehicle authority and usually contains information about one's driver license and traffic violations.
   • Criminal record. A list of a person's previous criminal convictions and, sometimes, pending charges.
   • Security clearance. In the United States of America, an official determination that an individual may access information classified by the United States Government. Security clearances are hierarchical; each level grants the holder access to information in that level and the levels below it.
   • Drug test. A technical analysis of a biological specimen, for example urine, hair, blood, breath, sweat, and/or oral fluid/saliva used to determine the presence or absence of specified parent drugs or their metabolites.
4. Professional credential. An employment credential that specifically refers to one's professional capacity.
   • Professional license. In the United States of America, a designation earned by a person from a state agency that allows this person to exercise some occupation. Professional licenses usually require the university title for that profession.
   • Apprenticeship. The position of an apprentice.
   • Trade certificate (also known as professional certificate, professional designation, or, simply, certification). A designation earned by a person from a professional society, certification body, or, possibly, from a private certifier to assure qualification to perform a job or task. Some trade certificates must be renewed periodically, or may be valid for a specific period of time (e.g., the lifetime of the product upon which the individual is certified).
   • Work experience. Any experience that a person gains while working in a specific field or occupation, but the expression is widely used to mean a type of volunteer work that is commonly intended for young people, often students, to get a feel for professional working environments.
   • Work sample test.
   • Professional award.
   • Professional performance.
   • Professional recommendation.
   • Professional association membership.
5. Academic credential.
   • High school diploma.
   • GED.
   • College diploma.
   • Associate's degree.
   • Bachelor's degree.
   • Master's degree.
   • PhD.
   • Professional school degree.

Introduction to Careerprise is the successor lecture.