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Career Orientation Basics
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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. A group of characteristics that collective form a general group of people with similiar interests - values - and behaviors
Job
Punctuality
Learning Style
Personality Type
2. Payment for work - usually figured by the hour
Values Compromise
career cluster
Values
Wage
3. To look at closely and judge
Screen out
Interest Inventory
Free Enterprise System
Evaluate
4. To make a plan or arrange things that must be done
Base Pay
Working Conditions
Human Services
Schedule
5. The prospect for the future of a job or career
Education and Training
Employment Outlook
Applicant
Career Ladder
6. A group of employees
Payroll
Stock
Letter of Application
Personnel
7. Using People in Mexico to assemble parts; utilizing external resources
Goal
Tentative Decision
Outsourcing
Interest Inventory
8. Following a person on the job to learn job duties and responsibilities
Job Shadowing
Job lead
Risk
Employer
9. To give up something to resolve a conflict
Career Action Plan
Partnership
Financial aid
Compromise
10. The choice between two or more possibilities
O*Net
Decision
Job lead
Services
11. Standards one believes is important about their work
Overtime
Union dues
Co-worker
Work Values
12. A plan of action for education - training - and experience to reach a career goal
Graduate school
Economy
Career Ladder
Skill
13. A group of characteristics that collective form a general group of people with similiar interests - values - and behaviors
Personality Type
Resume
Hospitality and Tourism
Discrimination
14. Temporary work during the summer
Career Goal
Seasonal Work
classifieds
Union dues
15. Cluster that involves regulating and managing local - state - and federal government
Government and Public Administration
Internship
Stock
Work ethic
16. Money accounted for from January 1st through the current pay period
Year-to-date earnings
Ability
Personality
Specializing
17. The use of goods or service to make life easier creating new jobs while eliminating others
Business Management and Administration
Long-Term Goal
Annual Leave
Technology
18. Cluster that involves protective and legal services
Salary
Employer
Law Public Safety and Security
Employer
19. Cluster that involves coordinating the movement of people - goods - and services; career cluster - jobs or occupations grouped together because of similar knowledge or skills
Career
classifieds
Outsourcing
Transportation - Distribution - and Logistics
20. Any information about possible job openings
Associate degree
career cluster
Job lead
Application form
21. A temporary paid or unpaid position that involves direct work experience in a career field
Ability
Internship
Personality Trait
Hospitality and Tourism
22. A formal meeting between an employer and job applicant about a job opening
Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA)
Discrimination
Law of Demand
Interview
23. Cluster that involves visual and performing arts; multimedia communications; journalism
Self-Concept
Career Portfolio
Arts Audio-Video Technology and Communications
OOH
24. A person who works with you
Architecture and Construction
Co-worker
Self-Concept
Health Science
25. Work that a person does for pay
Stockholder
Job
Schedule
Temporary Jobs
26. Jobs requiring less than 35-40 hours a week - depending on the employer
Part-Time Jobs
Self-Concept
Fee
Interview
27. Personal standards by which one lives
Salary
Work
Values
On-the-job training (OJT)
28. The instructional background and skills needed to qualify for employment
Education/Training Requirements
Check Stub
Conflict
Arts Audio-Video Technology and Communications
29. Agreement to complete a job for an amount of money
Contract Labor
Bi-Weekly Pay
Job Shadowing
Values Compromise
30. The amount of a paycheck after the deductions are taken out
Net pay
Research
Internet
Information Technology
31. A person who owns stock in a company
Priortize
Technology
Conflict
Stockholder
32. Cluster that involves designing - building - and repairing structures
Specializing
Architecture and Construction
Study Skills
Union dues
33. A computerized career information delivery system
Study Skills
Tuition
ArkOscar
Decision
34. A belief - understanding - and recognition of one's own abilities
Retailing
Self-Esteem
Vendor
Outsourcing
35. Salary of wages given to an employee on a regular basis
Union
Schedule
Payroll
Long-Term Goal
36. A person who works with you
Wholesale
Career Goal
Co-worker
Marketing Sales and Service
37. Relating to a specific field with a high degree of skill or experience
Transportation - Distribution - and Logistics
Professional
Decision-Making Process
GED certificate
38. Time an employee may take off work with pay
Annual Leave
Producer
Marketing Sales and Service
Arts Audio-Video Technology and Communications
39. Business owned by one person
Personnel
Sole Proprietorship
Law of Supply
Economy
40. A free flowing economy based upon the laws of supply and demand to allow individuals or companies to buy and sell goods and/or services at a profit
Letter of Application
Free Enterprise System
Law of Supply
Attitude
41. An assessment that helps people identify their interest areas
Decision-Making Process
Technical
Long-Term Goal
Interest Inventory
42. Temporary work during the summer
Seasonal Work
Career Ladder
Employer
Employment Agency
43. A certificate of completion awarded to a person after completing a program of study in a particular area - usually lasting 2 years
Associate degree
Job Description
Procrastinator
Work Environment
44. Time an employee may take off work with pay
Annual Leave
GED certificate
Identity
Career Action Plan
45. A person's outlook on life - usually positive or negative
Hospitality and Tourism
Job Shadowing
Stockholder
Attitude
46. The way in which a person views their own self-worth
Job Duty
Salary
Self-Concept
Goal
47. The environment of the workplace
Loss
Agriculture Food and Natural Resources
Working Conditions
Salary Range
48. A share of the ownership in a company
Agriculture Food and Natural Resources
ArkOscar
Profit
Stock
49. A productive activity resulting in something useful
Listening Skills
Temporary Jobs
Work
Workforce diversity
50. A belief - understanding - and recognition of one's own abilities
Personality Type
Self-Esteem
Fee
Career Goal