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Descriptive Statements:
- Demonstrate knowledge of the career-planning process, factors to consider when evaluating career options, methods for exploring career opportunities, and components of a career plan.
- Recognize procedures for searching, applying, and interviewing for a job.
- Demonstrate knowledge of customer/client service skills and factors that contribute to high-quality customer/client relationships.
- Demonstrate knowledge of soft skills, technical skills, and appropriate professionalism and ethics that facilitate success in the workplace.
- Identify principles for effective communication and managing stress and conflict in the workplace.
- Identify rights and responsibilities of employees, employers, and state and federal agencies, and current laws, regulations, and policies that affect employment.
- Demonstrate knowledge of local and global policies, issues, and trends in the workplace that affect individuals and families.
Sample Item:
When preparing for a job interview, the most important reason for a candidate to thoroughly research the employer is that it will help the candidate:
- decide whether they have the qualifications necessary to be successful with the employer.
- offer specific information about how they can contribute to the achievement of the employer's goals.
- ensure that they dress, behave, and speak appropriately to the employer at the interview.
- determine whether the employer would be a good fit with their interests and career goals.
Correct Response and Explanation (Show Correct ResponseHide Correct Response)
B. By the time an individual has reached the point in the application process where they have agreed to an interview, the individual should have determined whether the employer would be a good fit for them. While dress and behavior at an interview are important, it is most important for a candidate to be able to demonstrate to a prospective employer how their skills will contribute to the organization's success. To do this effectively, the individual must research the employer to gain knowledge of the employer's mission, values, and goals.
Descriptive Statements:
- Identify career and entrepreneurial opportunities related to family and consumer sciences professions in various fields (e.g., family and community services, early childhood education, facilities management and maintenance, hospitality and tourism, fashion and interior design, food service, nutrition).
- Recognize the economic conditions for and employment trends within various family and consumer sciences career paths.
- Identify training and education requirements, skills, experience, and aptitudes necessary for careers in family and consumer sciences.
- Analyze the effects of local, state, national, and global standards, policies, regulations, laws, and economies on occupations related to family and consumer sciences.
- Recognize the advisory role of the Family, Career and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA) in developing student professionalism and leadership traits.
- Demonstrate knowledge of business-planning and management skills.
- Demonstrate knowledge of creating and implementing a safe, supportive, responsive learning environment that considers the various needs, values, and characteristics of students, families, and communities.
- Demonstrate knowledge of engaging in an ethical professional practice and the relationship between family and consumer sciences and career and technical education through civic engagement, advocacy, collaboration with other professionals, and ongoing professional development.
Sample Item:
Which of the following family and consumer sciences careers requires a strong educational background in science?
- interior designer
- preschool teacher
- family life educator
- registered dietician
Correct Response and Explanation (Show Correct ResponseHide Correct Response)
D. To become a registered dietician, an individual must have a strong educational background in biology, chemistry, anatomy, physiology, microbiology, biochemistry, and food and nutrition sciences.
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