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Career Orientation Basics
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Subjects
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literacy
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soft-skills
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Average expected earnings from beginning to experienced pay
Salary Range
Elective
Short-Term Goal
Manufacturing
2. Something a person wants to acheive later in life requiring much planning
Plan
Interest
Long-Term Goal
Consumer
3. Business owned by one person
Sole Proprietorship
Long-Term Goal
Producer
Health Science
4. Determining the best way for an individual to study - remember - or learn
Partnership
Technology
Job Outlook
Study Skills
5. Arrange things in order from the most important to the least important
Priortize
Retailing
Interest
Decision-Making Process
6. A wide variety of workers with different backgrounds - experiences - ideas - and skills in the workplace
Salary
Work
Career Interest Area
Workforce diversity
7. Business which two or more people own and operate
Post-secondary education
Workforce diversity
Services
Partnership
8. Someone who sells goods or services
Ability
Vendor
Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics
Decision
9. Clash of ideas or values
Conflict
Prerequisite
On-the-job training (OJT)
Compromise
10. Pay that is based upon the percentage of sales
Work ethic
Priortize
Internship
Commission
11. To find out more by reading and talking to people
Producer
Retailing
Punctuality
Research
12. A temporary paid or unpaid position that involves direct work experience in a career field
Internship
Year-to-date earnings
Stock
Enterprise
13. Average expected earnings from beginning to experienced pay
Short-Term Goal
Assessment
Salary Range
Law of Supply
14. Cluster that involves providing education and training services; providing support services
Employer
Education and Training
Scholarships
Profit
15. The instructional background and skills needed to qualify for employment
Education/Training Requirements
Listening Skills
Laws of supply and demand
Career Interest Area
16. To employ oneself in a particular or specific field of work
Specializing
Employment Outlook
Career Action Plan
Information Technology
17. The total amount of an employee's earnings before deductions are taken out
Stock
Manufacturing
Gross pay
Transportation - Distribution - and Logistics
18. Jobs requiring less than 35-40 hours a week - depending on the employer
Part-Time Jobs
Employment Outlook
Full-Time Job
Base Pay
19. The course of action one decides to take at the end of the decision-making process
Prerequisite
Arts Audio-Video Technology and Communications
classifieds
Plan
20. Rules of behavior in the workplace
Work ethic
Education and Training
Orientation
Help-wanted ads
21. Money accounted for from January 1st through the current pay period
Sole Proprietorship
Salary
Screen out
Year-to-date earnings
22. Following a person on the job to learn job duties and responsibilities
Internet
Personality
Procedure
Job Shadowing
23. The surrounding physical conditions of a workplace
Graduate school
Ability
Work Environment
Letter of Application
24. Work that a person does for pay
Career Interest Area
Salary
Job
Employment Outlook
25. Undertaking or venture to make more with risk
Hospitality and Tourism
Union
Enterprise
Finance
26. A person who organizes - manages - and assumes the risk of a business
Entrepreneur
Agriculture Food and Natural Resources
Semi-monthly Pay
Base Pay
27. A program where a person learns to do a certain job by working with a skilled worker
Discrimination
Apprenticeship
Study Skills
Time Management
28. A course or program that teaches job skills
Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics
Vocational
Attitude
Vocation
29. Focusing or concentrating in a particular skill
Career Action Plan
Specializing
Job Duty
Self-Esteem
30. Tangible merchandise that you can see and touch
Career Portfolio
Goods
Work ethic
Tentative Decision
31. A description of the goals of a business and how it will operate
O*Net
Services
Business Plan
Occupation
32. Business owned by many people but treated by the law as though it were one person
On-the-job training (OJT)
Corporation
Work Values
Job Outlook
33. A long term work plan including education - training - and experience
Work ethic
Career Goal
Arts Audio-Video Technology and Communications
Decision
34. Using People in Mexico to assemble parts; utilizing external resources
Job Market
Working Conditions
Outsourcing
Plan
35. The personality or activity by which a person is known
Apprenticeship
Listening Skills
Identity
Government and Public Administration
36. Money received for education that does not have to be repaid
Scholarships
Sole Proprietorship
Job Market
Personality Type
37. Cluster that involves designing and producing materials into intermediate or final products
Internet
Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics
Manufacturing
Bi-Weekly Pay
38. The amount of a paycheck after the deductions are taken out
Financial aid
Ability
Compromise
Net pay
39. Rules of behavior in the workplace
Personality Trait
Work ethic
Employer
Job Duty
40. Typical way of life
Lifestyle
Deduction
Volunteering
Letter of Application
41. A productive activity resulting in something useful
Vocational
Work
Screen out
Part-Time Jobs
42. To make a plan or arrange things that must be done
Schedule
Economy
Letter of Application
Work
43. Business owned by many people but treated by the law as though it were one person
Time Management
Career Portfolio
Assessment
Corporation
44. A course that is not required but can be chosen by a student according to their interests
Values
Personality
Elective
Salary
45. A share of the ownership in a company
Priortize
career cluster
Time Management
Stock
46. The need for workers in a particular occupation or field
Job Market
Career Goal
Identity
Stock
47. Relating to a specific field with a high degree of skill or experience
Values Compromise
Professional
GED certificate
Financial aid
48. Cluster that involves computer and Web-based services; telecommunications services
Co-worker
Information Technology
Bi-Weekly Pay
Year-to-date earnings
49. A person applying for a job
Bachelor's degree
Applicant
Manufacturing
Orientation
50. Generally 40 Hour work week or more
Research
Wholesale
Full-Time Job
Prerequisite