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College-level career exploration worksheet with job characteristics list and open-response writing prompts for self-reflection.
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What Makes the Perfect Job?

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This printable career-exploration worksheet guides college students through identifying three job characteristics most important to them from a list of fifteen options, including salary, benefits, flexibility, work environment, and promotion opportunities. Students write brief explanations for their choices and prepare to discuss them in a group activity. Useful for career advising, life-skills courses, or job readiness preparation.

Subject:
Life Skills
Topic:
Work
Grade Level:
College
Updated March 2026

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