Exam 1: Jump-Start Your Career

What is an obstacle?

Which is an outcome of writing down your goals?

You have found a career when your employment is built on skill, passion, experience, and education, as well as preference.

Which of the following is an important question to ask yourself as you proceed in your career?

Focusing on positives has no relationship to "good things happening" for a career seeker.

A good "stretch goal" is one that is large enough to create the energy and motivation needed to achieve it, but not so lofty that it is unattainable.

An affirmation is a conscious positive statement you say to yourself even if it's not true at the moment.

A career mission statement is a brief description of your overall career purpose.

A mission statement is designed to take a person through his or her first year of college.

Your mind's negative statements can be reversed.

What is the meaning of the phrase "What you focus on expands"?

Goals should be very general and nonspecific to allow for flexibility and changing one's mind.

There are a number of psychological studies that demonstrate meaningful goals are not essential to human health and well-being.

A career mission statement is

Which is a characteristic of people "stuck" or stalled out in their careers?

The portfolio must be in hard copy form only.

Employers prefer to hire people who are working.

An avocation is a work situation taken primarily to make money.

Which is a characteristic of a career?

There is little relationship between attitude and career success.