Learning Objectives: Chapter Summary: Your Career In Business

How can you enhance your interpersonal skills?

Enhancing your interpersonal skills involves building your people skills, understanding how to persuade others, learning to think on your feet, empowering yourself, becoming politically savvy, becoming a team player, and handling conflict well.

Why is learning to plan so important in school and in the real world?

Planning is something you must pursue consciously and thoughtfully in all aspects of life. When you plan, you translate your goals and dreams into step-by-step strategies, specific things you can do to test your goals and bring them to reality. You often must revise your plans, but even when your plans are not fulfilled, planning will have a positive effect on the course of your life.

What skills should you develop in school that can transfer easily to your professional life and make it a success?

The following skills will benefit you in college and in your professional life: learn to concentrate, manage your time, use your money wisely, study well, and become a master at taking tests.

What are some strategies that will help you find, keep, and advance in your dream job?

To be successful in life and in a career, you need to think positively. evaluate your abilities and characteristics, understand what employers want, use the Internet to find a job, use keywords to get your résumé noticed, and research the company to prepare for the interview.

What key attributes do employers look for when interviewing job candidates?

Employers seek job-specific skills (skills and technical abilities that relate specifically to a job). Employers also seek transferable skills and attitudes which prepare you for a wide variety of jobs and which are applicable from one task, job, or workplace to another.