Check Your Answers: After You Read

Chapter 3: Pathways to Careers

Section 3.1

Review Key Concepts
1. An entrepreneur risks, works long hours to keep his or her businesses successful, is his or her own boss, and may earn (or lose) large sums of money.

2. Transferable skills can help you in numerous job situations. You may not know what you want to do for a living now, or your ideal job may require different skills in the future, but skills such as communication and time-management negotiation will always be in demand.

Practice Academic Skills
3. You answer may be different from your classmates. For example, under “Nurse” you may list “helping people” and “growing need for nurses” as benefits, and may list “long hours” and “changing bedpans” as negatives.

4. Demonstrate an understanding of the person’s beliefs and values, and the attitudes and values critical for his or her position when explaining this person’s level of success.

Section 3.2

Review Key Concepts
1. Which activities do you enjoy most? Which would you do over 2,000 hours a year?

2. Education or training; compensation or pay; benefits; nature of work; work conditions; future job opportunities

3. A mentor demonstrates correct work behavior, shares knowledge, and helps new employees adjust to the workplace.

4. Service industries including the media, healthcare, leisure, hotels, transportation, education, banking, government, retail, insurance and restaurants are growing. Industries involving new technologies are also growing.

Practice Academic Skills
5. Your letter should include job requirements and the skills necessary to meet those requirements. They should use formal English, correct spelling and grammar.

6. Describe the job and how it has changed. For example, a job may have adapted to newer technology. Explain whether you are more or less interested in the job after hearing about it.