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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. Someone who sells goods or services
Short-Term Goal
Schedule
Vendor
Salary Range
2. Jobs or occupations grouped together because of similar knowledge or skills
Working Conditions
career cluster
Work Values
Transportation - Distribution - and Logistics
3. A program of study beyond a bachelor's degree
Seasonal Work
Graduate school
Vocational
Professional
4. Payment for work - usually figured by the hour
Enterprise
Government and Public Administration
Wage
Decision-Making Process
5. Units of measurement which schools use to determine whether or not students are progressing toward graduation
Credit
Internship
Union
Career Portfolio
6. An introductory letter written to a prospective employer
Fringe benefits
Bi-Weekly Pay
Letter of Application
Brain Orientation
7. Standard minimum pay received by an employee
Base Pay
Government and Public Administration
Decision-Making Process
Internship
8. An occupation one is well-suited or qualified for
Prerequisite
Manufacturing
Vocation
O*Net
9. Using People in Mexico to assemble parts; utilizing external resources
Goods
Self-Esteem
Outsourcing
Associate degree
10. A plan of action for education - training - and experience to reach a career goal
Loss
Related Occupations
Manufacturing
Career Ladder
11. A person who works with you
Time Management
Job Outlook
Orientation
Co-worker
12. Cluster that involves services involving lodging - entertainment - recreation - and travel; food and beverage management
Letter of Application
Hospitality and Tourism
Union
Bachelor's degree
13. Money accounted for from January 1st through the current pay period
Sick Leave
Agriculture Food and Natural Resources
Orientation
Year-to-date earnings
14. Work that a person does for pay
Job
Wholesale
Interview
Temporary Jobs
15. The instructional background and skills needed to qualify for employment
Goal
Union
Education/Training Requirements
Education and Training
16. Jobs or occupations grouped together because of similar knowledge or skills
career cluster
Bachelor's degree
Retailing
Transportation - Distribution - and Logistics
17. Cluster that involves visual and performing arts; multimedia communications; journalism
Arts Audio-Video Technology and Communications
Values
Plan
Health Science
18. Relating to a specific field with a high degree of skill or experience
Architecture and Construction
Technology
Career
Professional
19. Jobs with similiar work actvities
Skill
Brain Orientation
Career Interest Area
Technical
20. Something one wants to obtain in the near future generally less than 5 years
Short-Term Goal
Payroll
Education and Training
Values
21. As the price increases producers produce more
Job Description
Law of Supply
Education and Training
Union
22. Cluster that involves the systematic use of observations and experiments to gain knowledge about the world; the practical use of scientific knowledge; solving practical problems by combining science and mathematics with technology; the study of numbe
Discrimination
Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics
Workforce diversity
Employment Agency
23. One who puts off doing things or making decisions
Associate degree
Law of Supply
Procrastinator
Career Action Plan
24. Units of measurement which schools use to determine whether or not students are progressing toward graduation
Job
Job lead
Employment Agency
Credit
25. Possibility of loss
Risk
Values
Research
Entrepreneur
26. Jobs or careers belonging to the same group on the basis of similar knowledge and skills
Seasonal Work
Law of Demand
Compromise
Related Occupations
27. Typical way of life
Lifestyle
Job Outlook
Research
Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics
28. To eliminate unwanted applicants
Bi-Weekly Pay
Screen out
Competition
Listening Skills
29. Following a person on the job to learn job duties and responsibilities
Manufacturing
Job Shadowing
Workforce diversity
Commission
30. A person who will give a favorable report of a job applicant to the employer
Outsourcing
Reference
Plan
Personality Type
31. Personal standards by which one lives
Values
Procrastinator
Work
Self-Esteem
32. Earnings above base pay
Global Economy
Fee
Overtime
Prerequisite
33. Time an employee may take off work with pay
Annual Leave
Prerequisite
Transportation - Distribution - and Logistics
Sole Proprietorship
34. The combination of attitude - values - interests - and behaviors that identify a person
Personality
OOH
Corporation
Personnel
35. The tool that employers use to find out basic information about job applicants
Semi-monthly Pay
Corporation
Application form
Specializing
36. Acquaint or become familiar with a new situation
Government and Public Administration
Orientation
Personality Trait
Internship
37. Business which two or more people own and operate
Values
Partnership
Qualification
Resource
38. Help-wanted section of the newspaper that lists job openings
Brain Orientation
Contract Labor
classifieds
Job Shadowing
39. Someone who purchases a good or service with the intent to use it
Personnel
Consumer
Law Public Safety and Security
Free Enterprise System
40. The surrounding physical conditions of a workplace
Work Environment
Payroll
Listening Skills
Loss
41. Cluster that involves growing and processing crops for human use; raising and processing animals for human use; using raw materials that occur naturally in the earth
Compromise
Job Shadowing
Agriculture Food and Natural Resources
Time Management
42. A resource that involves communicating information with others
Producer
Economy
Workforce diversity
Networking
43. Cluster that involves providing education and training services; providing support services
Technical
Education and Training
Skill
Union dues
44. A belief - understanding - and recognition of one's own abilities
Self-Esteem
Decision
Arts Audio-Video Technology and Communications
Entrepreneur
45. Any information about possible job openings
Employment Agency
Post-secondary education
Long-Term Goal
Job lead
46. Money received for education that does not have to be repaid
Scholarships
Risk
On-the-job training (OJT)
Education/Training Requirements
47. Clash of ideas or values
Conflict
Partnership
Contract Labor
Temporary Jobs
48. When a person has to give up part of something they value to resolve a conflict
Laws of supply and demand
Enterprise
Career Ladder
Values Compromise
49. A personal evaluation to help you make decisions
Contract Labor
Internship
Fee
Assessment
50. The steps one takes to make the best decision
Technology
Orientation
Technical
Decision-Making Process