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Work, psychology.  ---  .This section is about the psychology of work.  ---  1/24/2006


Work, psychology.  ---  (1) How personality affects job choice.  (2) How job you choose affects your personality, for better or worse.  ---  07/30/1993


Work, psychology.  ---  Can I handle it (all aspects of job), and the rest of my life too?  For how long?  ---  12/30/1992


Work, psychology.  ---  Change in psychology and behavior caused by job, woman, and school.  Better or worse.  Conscious or unconscious.  Chose or unchosen.  Control or uncontrolled.  Mind or behavior.  ---  12/30/1992


Work, psychology.  ---  How survival work affects a person.  Degree of effect, positive or negative, over time, of environment (natural and social) and work behavior the individual must perform.  ---  12/30/1992


Work, psychology.  ---  Jobs you (1) Can get vs. can't.  (2) Can hold vs. can't.  (3) Want vs. don't.  ---  12/30/1992


Work, psychology.  ---  Process: find out, choose, apply, get, keep, advance, change.  (1) Looking, finding, researching.  Learn about the job.  Find what is available at the moment.  (2) Choosing, deciding.  Use want ads to figure out what you do and don't want to do.  Doing what you like vs. what you are good at vs. selling out for the money.  (3) Applying: get there first.  (4) Resume: contents and information vs. structure and arrangement.  (5) Cover letters.  (6) Interviews.  ---  12/30/1992


Work, psychology.  ---  Questions for specific jobs.  (1) Technology.  How do the job best.  (2) Ethical.  (A) What they want you to do.  Is it ethical vs. unethical, legal vs. illegal, you like vs. you don't, obey vs. disobey.  (B) What you want to do.  (C) How much freedom and what types.  (D) Why do the job: pros and cons.  (E) Ethical requirements of the job.  ---  12/30/1992


Work, psychology.  ---  Some people just like/hate work more than others.  Due to personality type.  Two key elements are freedom-drive and sociability?  ---  12/30/1992


Work, psychology.  ---  Some think that work-like and business-like means solemn, serious, honest as a judge 100% of the time.  Never a smirk, grin, smile, laugh or joke.  No expression or acknowledgment of humor.  ---  08/31/1993


Work, psychology.  ---  Suitability of a job to a person.  ---  12/30/1992


Work, psychology.  ---  Three levels of work.  (1) Tasks: of a job.  (2) Job: position.  (3) Career: job track, series of advancing jobs.  ---  12/30/1992


Work, psychology.  ---  What predisposes an individual for an occupation?  ---  12/30/1992


Work, psychology.  ---  What survival work do, why?  How do it, why?  How much time spend on survival work, why?  ---  12/30/1992


Work, psychology.  ---  What weights do you put on various job factors.  (1) Pay, perks, benefits.  (2) The work itself: tasks.  (A) How tough: complexity, pace.  (B) How fun, how interesting, how good are you at it.  (3) The people.  (4) Corporate culture: rules, competition, conflict.  (5) Natural environment: location, transportation.  ---  12/30/1992


Work, psychology.  ---  Which job you hate the least.  ---  12/30/1992




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