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NCE Exam: Lifestyle and Career Development Exam/123 Questions and Answers
NCE Exam: Lifestyle and Career Development Exam/123 Questions and Answers
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NCE Exam: Lifestyle and Career DevelopmentExam/123 Questions and Answers
Over ___% of marriages are dual-earner marriages. - - 54
(Around 60% when looking at marriages with children. In 1950, it was
20.4%.)
- Studies suggest how many workers snare a job based on chance factors? -
- 1 in 5
- What ____% of all college students have career difficulties? - - 50 (of all
college students)
- What are 're-entry women'? - - Women who have made the transition from
homemaker to jobs outside the home.
- Displaced homemaker - - A woman with children who was a homemaker
but is currently in need of work to support her family.
- What is meant by the term 'glass ceiling'? - - Suggests women are limited
in terms of how far they can advance in the workforce; is a form of
occupational gender role stereotyping that can limit a woman's careers.
- Women now compromise _____% of the workforce; approximately ____
______ workers. - - 46%, 69 million
- John O. Crites - - Feels the need for career counseling exceeds the need
for therapy.
- Victor Vroom's Motivation and Management Expectancy Theory - -
suggests employee performance is influenced by: valance (rewards such as
money, promotion, or satisfaction), expectancy (what am I capable of
doing?), and instrumentality (will management come through with promised
rewards?)
- Vocational guidance - - A developmental and educational process within a
school system.
- Career counseling - - A therapeutic service for adults with occupational
goals that is performed outside the educational setting.
- A Bachelor's degree - - on average, this boosts yearly income by $10,000
over that of worker with a high school diploma.
- ____% of workers have a high school diploma. - - 75%
, - "Changing View of Work" - - indicates that in the past, work was seen as
drudgery, while today it is viewed as a vehicle to express our identity, self-
esteem, and status.
- Which ethnic group has the highest % of Bachelor's degrees? - - Asians
followed by Caucasians, African Americans, and Hispanics
- Leisure time - - is time away from work where the individual has freedom
to choice what he/she would like to do.
- Career is sometimes defined as - - the total work one does in a lifetime
plus leisure.
- Avocation - - A leisure activity one engages in for pleasure rather than
money.
- Dual-career families - - have less leisure time than single-career families.
(Note the up-and-coming specialty, "leisure counseling")
- Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 - - states women should have equal
work opportunities and equal job pay.
- 80% Four-fifths Rule - - Used to determine discrimination selection
processes. The hiring rate for minorities is divided by the hiring rate for non-
minorities, and the result must be 80% or greater.
- Adverse impact - - occurs if the quotient from the Four-fifths Rule is less
than 80%.
- Differential validity - - a test is valid for one group, but less or totally
invalid for another
- Trait-and-factor theory - - Assumes through testing, one's personality can
be matched to an occupation geared toward those traits.
-Considered 1st major and most durable theory of career choice.
(Computer-based career programs often adhere to this model.)
- Profile matching - - A job candidate's personality or skills are matched to
that of successful workers.
- Elementary school counselors - - The only organized profession to work
with individuals from a preventative and developmental viewpoint.
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