Career Essentials

Career Essentials is the first lectio (or lesson part) in the Introduction to Careers lesson. The lesson itself is the fourth in CNM Cyber Orientation. Consequently, the Orientation is the first stage of WorldOpp Pipeline.

This wikipage presents its full script and those test questions that are related to that lectio.

Pre-entry-level job (student job).
Entry-level job. An employment that typically does not require prior experience in the field or profession. Most likely, but not necessarily, these jobs are designed or designated for recent graduates of a given profession.
Experienced-level job (intermediate-level job, non-managerial employee).
Front-line manager (first-line manager).
Middle-level manager (general manager).
C-level executive (senior manager, top-level manager).

Career progression.

Upward career progression (within one organization, rank promotion).
Downward career progression.
Lateral career progression.
Diagonal career progression.

Script

The video of the presentation is published at https://youtu.be/TaPcCI0bFuU (3:44). Here is its full text.

Overview

Welcome to Career Essentials. In this brief presentation, we are going to define careers and take a look at career administration. Let's takeoff.

What career administration is

Career administration is a set of endeavors undertaken in order to administer one's career. Career can be defined as a long-term occupation and administration in this case is being in charge of that. Vocation is another term related to this topic. It is a strong feeling of suitability for a particular career.

Job market

Every employment is the match between employers and employees. Future employees offer their talents and employers offer jobs. Talents are on one side and job vacancies are on another side.

On a casual market, products are rarely sold without intermediaries. In most cases, something or someone should be in between employers and future employees. And this "in-between" includes everything and everyone who can help to match these two parties. Employers and employment candidates at least try to play that role. Nevertheless, if you are a job seeker without direct connections, you can not in any meaningful way to know what jobs are available and how to land them without some sources of information.

So, we can identify three groups of actors in career administration. One group is owners of talents -- employment candidates. Another group is employers -- owners of job vacancies. The middle group is job-market intermediaries -- workforce service providers, informational resources, relatives, classmates, just friends, et cetera.

Job seeker vs entrepreneur

Product

Every career can also be defined as an enterprise, which objective is one's employment. We may easily compare every person who is looking for a job or may consider looking for a job with a business in search for its customers.

This person's work is the product, which this business sells. That business has the name, which is the person's name, his or her performance is the deliverable. Its delivery is being available at employer's place and on employer's schedule. Its price is commonly called employee compensation.

Eventually, this enterprise needs to build its sales, presentation, and, in some cases, its customers.

If one is looking for a job, he or she is an entrepreneur. Employment candidates are self-employed and, in most cases, the goal of the business is to sell their time. Whatever is good for an enterprise is good for employment candidates. Career administration can be viewed as no more than an application of business administration to one's career.

Summary

This concludes the Career Essentials presentation. We have defined career administration and taken a look at vocations and careers. If you haven't done yet so, you are now welcome to move to Career Projects.

Quiz questions

Every statement below is split into one true and one false question in the actual exam.

"Career" questions

Career is (not) a promising one-stop shop for career services brought by Friends Of CNM.
Career is (not) an occupation undertaken for a significant period of a person's life.
Career is (not) an undertaking to create something and/or develop somebody, which takes some level of effort.
Career is (not) a service for workforce offered by Friends Of CNM.
Career is (not) a workforce preparation fellowship that is a combination of education, career administration, and apprenticeship.

"Admin" questions

Career administration is (not) the endeavor undertaken in order to achieve one or more of the following: (a) to discover one's vocation, (b) to identify one's occupation, (c) to locate one's target employment, (d) to identify missing credentials, (e) to develop the missing credentials, and (f) to land one's job.
Career administration is (not) a strong feeling called "calling" of suitability for a particular career or occupation.
Career administration is (not) a job, profession, and/or position that somebody works in.

"Vocation" questions

Vocation is (not) the endeavor undertaken in order to achieve one or more of the following: (a) to discover one's vocation, (b) to identify one's occupation, (c) to locate one's target employment, (d) to identify missing credentials, (e) to develop the missing credentials, and (f) to land one's job.
Vocation is (not) a strong feeling called "calling" of suitability for a particular career or occupation.
Vocation is (not) a job, profession, and/or position that somebody works in.

Career Essentials

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