Twenty Questions Fact or Fiction - Careers

2. Communication skills are not an important aspect of a career.

3. Take just any job, complete the training, and if you don’t like it, quit.

4. Math and science fields are fast growing areas of employment.

5. In order to improve your job hunting success, build a network of people who know your character and qualifications.

6. Volunteering in your community would be of no help in exploring career paths.

7. Lifelong learning is important as people change jobs more frequently in their lifetime.

8. Transferable skills are not necessary in today’s working society.

9. Baby boomers are those born between 1943 and 1960, and they are beginning to retire. Knowing this could make a difference in choosing a career path.

10. Improve your interpersonal skills by becoming more culturally aware.

11. A myth about your career decisions is that once you make a decision you just must live with it.

12. Long-term goal-setting is of no use to me or anyone else.

13. Never give up, even though sometimes you must redirect.

14. Employees get all their work completed in a 40-hour work week.

15. Be flexible.

16. After an interview, prospective employees should hand-write a letter to the interviewer.

17. What I wear to an interview doesn’t affect the outcome.

18. Finding a path to a satisfying career requires careful planning and careful decisionmaking, but an eighth grader doesn’t really need to start the process now

19. Going to college is a career plan.

20. Career planning is an on-going process that begins with self-exploration, requires longterm goal setting, and understanding of an ever-changing job market