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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 skill that has been developed
Ability
Learning Style
Orientation
Decision
2. As the prices decreases producers purchase more
Sick Leave
Manufacturing
Law of Demand
Outsourcing
3. Work that a person does for pay
Goods
Year-to-date earnings
Job
Overtime
4. Receiving a paycheck every other Friday
GED certificate
classifieds
Bi-Weekly Pay
Profit
5. The course of action one decides to take at the end of the decision-making process
Plan
Personnel
Learning Style
Fringe benefits
6. Cluster that involves developing - promoting - and providing goods to consumers; performing tasks for consumers
Demographics
Marketing Sales and Service
Bachelor's degree
Payroll
7. A plan of action for education - training - and experience to reach a career goal
career cluster
Career Ladder
GED certificate
Career
8. The computer network system through which information can be shared on the World Wide Web
Internet
Laws of supply and demand
Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA)
Occupation
9. Notices that employers put in the classified section of the paper describing their job openings
Resume
Help-wanted ads
Semi-monthly Pay
Post-secondary education
10. A certificate of completion awarded to a person after completing a program of study in a particular area - usually lasting 2 years
Associate degree
Bachelor's degree
Competition
Vocational
11. The personality or activity by which a person is known
Identity
Risk
Resume
Networking
12. Economic rules which influence consumer buying decisions
Laws of supply and demand
Part-Time Jobs
Employment Outlook
Internship
13. An amount of money charged by others for services
Work ethic
Fee
Punctuality
Short-Term Goal
14. Cluster that involves protective and legal services
Law of Demand
Economy
Law Public Safety and Security
Help-wanted ads
15. Work that a person does for pay
Career
Apprenticeship
Self-Esteem
Job
16. When two or more companies rival for consumer dollars
Competition
Law Public Safety and Security
Networking
Law of Demand
17. The person who has hires someone to do a job
Employer
Retailing
Priortize
Internship
18. A temporary paid or unpaid position that involves direct work experience in a career field
Time Management
Enterprise
Internship
Services
19. Someone who sells goods or services
Vendor
Work
Compromise
Professional
20. To look at closely and judge
Personality Type
Overtime
Annual Leave
Evaluate
21. Learning on the job
On-the-job training (OJT)
Entry-Level Jobs
Job Duty
Help-wanted ads
22. A plan which includes the education and training requirements to reach a career goal
Enterprise
Professional
Career Action Plan
Priortize
23. Salary of wages given to an employee on a regular basis
Prerequisite
Payroll
Follow-up Letter
Work
24. A wide variety of workers with different backgrounds - experiences - ideas - and skills in the workplace
Career
Career Goal
classifieds
Workforce diversity
25. Payment for work - usually figured by the hour
Procedure
Fee
Agriculture Food and Natural Resources
Wage
26. To make a plan or arrange things that must be done
Schedule
Contract Labor
Retailing
Procrastinator
27. Extras provided by employers (other than wages)
Consumer
Partnership
Salary
Fringe benefits
28. Rules of behavior in the workplace
Work ethic
Credit
Graduate school
Working Conditions
29. Amount of money taken from an employee's gross pay for taxes - insurance - social security - and other benefits
Applicant
Technology
Workforce diversity
Deduction
30. The type of job in which a person is employed
Occupation
Full-Time Job
Work Values
Screen out
31. The steps one takes to make the best decision
Sole Proprietorship
ArkOscar
Lifestyle
Decision-Making Process
32. 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
Check Stub
Temporary Jobs
Agriculture Food and Natural Resources
Work Environment
33. Cluster that involves visual and performing arts; multimedia communications; journalism
Sick Leave
Working Conditions
Aptitude
Arts Audio-Video Technology and Communications
34. Tangible merchandise that you can see and touch
Part-Time Jobs
Architecture and Construction
Job Outlook
Goods
35. Someone who creates a good or service
Producer
Internet
Salary
OOH
36. Cluster that involves designing - building - and repairing structures
Sole Proprietorship
Employment Outlook
Architecture and Construction
Values
37. Arrange things in order from the most important to the least important
Decision
Priortize
Research
Laws of supply and demand
38. A program of study beyond a bachelor's degree
Co-worker
OOH
Finance
Graduate school
39. Clash of ideas or values
Elective
Goods
Conflict
classifieds
40. Cluster that involves providing education and training services; providing support services
Goods
Sole Proprietorship
Free Enterprise System
Education and Training
41. The ability to perform a certain activity well
Skill
Graduate school
Work ethic
Transportation - Distribution - and Logistics
42. Standard minimum pay received by an employee
Scholarships
Values
Base Pay
Partnership
43. A group of characteristics that collective form a general group of people with similiar interests - values - and behaviors
Career Ladder
Learning Style
Personality Type
Year-to-date earnings
44. Hearing - learning - and retaining verbal information
Associate degree
Credit
Listening Skills
Union
45. Fixed amount of money earned - regardless of hours worked; pay that is calculated exactly the same for every check
Plan
Salary
Fee
Values Compromise
46. The person who has hires someone to do a job
Listening Skills
Employer
Job lead
Specializing
47. A program where a person learns to do a certain job by working with a skilled worker
Apprenticeship
Career
Wage
Financial aid
48. Someone who purchases a good or service with the intent to use it
Career Interest Area
Consumer
Law Public Safety and Security
Schedule
49. The choice between two or more possibilities
Temporary Jobs
Decision
Personality
Self-Esteem
50. The work done over a period of years in one area of interest
Year-to-date earnings
Career
Decision-Making Process
Law of Demand