What Career Is

What Career Is (hereinafter, the Lectio) is the second lesson part of the Career Essentials lesson that introduces its participants to careers and related topics.

WorldOpp Pipeline

This lesson belongs to the Introduction to Careers session of EmployableU Concepts.

Content

The predecessor lectio is Recruitment Fees.

Business Model Canvas

Script

Career is an occupation undertaken for a significant period of a person's life and with opportunities for progress.

Why do people pursue one or another career? Some do so because their vocation, which is a strong feeling called "calling" of suitability for a particular career or occupation.

When you and other workers look for obtaining money while working, career is a type of business. Businesses make profits and/or obtain other gains.

The Business Model Canvas attempts to outline the structure various businesses. Let's project its building blocks to your business.

Your value proposition should be the match between what you propose to your potential employer and the value that this employer sees in your proposal.

Either working for an employer or looking for a job, you do some key activities, which require key resources and key partnerships. Those activities, resources, and partnerships result in your costs.

To get revenue streams, you should target customer segments, which can be your current and potential employers. You should stay in touch with your sources of revenue streams through your customer relationships and, to keep them, you should build and maintain some channels.

Key terms

Career, vocation, business, Business Model Canvas

Closing

Is the concept of career explained well? --Yes/No/I'm not sure

Career Levels is the successor lectio.

Questions

Placement entrance exam

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

"Career" questions:

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

"Admin" questions:

1. 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.
2. Career administration is (not) a strong feeling called "calling" of suitability for a particular career or occupation.
3. Career administration is (not) a job, profession, and/or position that somebody works in.

"Vocation" questions:

1. 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.
2. Vocation is (not) a strong feeling called "calling" of suitability for a particular career or occupation.
3. Vocation is (not) a job, profession, and/or position that somebody works in.