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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. Relating to a specific field with a high degree of skill or experience
Resource
Entrepreneur
Values
Professional
2. The computer network system through which information can be shared on the World Wide Web
Schedule
Self-Concept
Risk
Internet
3. Cluster that involves planning - organizing - and directing business operations
Business Management and Administration
Identity
Self-Concept
Agriculture Food and Natural Resources
4. A resource that involves communicating information with others
Commission
Aptitude
Law of Demand
Networking
5. A definition of work duties
Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA)
Seasonal Work
Personality
Job Description
6. The amount of a paycheck after the deductions are taken out
Net pay
Government and Public Administration
Job lead
Job Shadowing
7. A productive activity resulting in something useful
Payroll
Stock
Work Environment
Work
8. Fixed amount of money earned - regardless of hours worked; pay that is calculated exactly the same for every check
Values Compromise
Salary
ArkOscar
Information Technology
9. 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
Agriculture Food and Natural Resources
Attitude
Competition
Vocational
10. To give up something to resolve a conflict
ArkOscar
Compromise
Human Services
Vocational
11. Intangible work done for others as an occupation
Lifestyle
Services
Union
Occupation
12. To find out more by reading and talking to people
ArkOscar
Profit
Decision
Research
13. Cluster that involves developing - promoting - and providing goods to consumers; performing tasks for consumers
Stockholder
Specializing
OOH
Marketing Sales and Service
14. Undertaking or venture to make more with risk
Wholesale
Enterprise
Economy
Self-Concept
15. Earnings above base pay
Fringe benefits
Overtime
Graduate school
Job Duty
16. When a person has to give up part of something they value to resolve a conflict
Punctuality
Related Occupations
Career Goal
Values Compromise
17. Careful use of resources including money and materials
O*Net
Bachelor's degree
Economy
Priortize
18. A certificate of completion awarded to a person after completing a program of study in a particular area - usually lasting 2 years
Self-Esteem
Ethnic
Outsourcing
Associate degree
19. Money received for education that does not have to be repaid
Scholarships
Contract Labor
Punctuality
Letter of Application
20. Relating to a specific field with a high degree of skill or experience
Work Environment
Salary
Professional
Overtime
21. Doing a job without pay to gain experience
Resume
Career Ladder
Risk
Volunteering
22. An individual characterstic that helps one determine their personality
Decision
Compromise
Personality Trait
Health Science
23. A task one is expected to perform on the job
Job Duty
Entrepreneur
Career Action Plan
Free Enterprise System
24. Cluster that involves visual and performing arts; multimedia communications; journalism
Plan
Arts Audio-Video Technology and Communications
career cluster
Vendor
25. Salary of wages given to an employee on a regular basis
Payroll
Post-secondary education
Internet
Vocational
26. A computerized career information delivery system
ArkOscar
Part-Time Jobs
Graduate school
Full-Time Job
27. Payment for work - usually figured by the hour
Consumer
Wage
Law of Demand
Resource
28. The choice between two or more possibilities
Decision
Orientation
Personality Type
Employment Agency
29. Way in which one uses or utilitizes the brain best
ArkOscar
Brain Orientation
Risk
Job
30. Following a person on the job to learn job duties and responsibilities
Job Shadowing
Services
Temporary Jobs
Employer
31. Clash of ideas or values
Conflict
Post-secondary education
Profit
Risk
32. Business which two or more people own and operate
Partnership
Job Shadowing
Procrastinator
Fee
33. 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
Free Enterprise System
Personality Trait
Job Description
Stock
34. To employ oneself in a particular or specific field of work
Work
Specializing
Job
Schedule
35. Cluster that involves designing and producing materials into intermediate or final products
Associate degree
Manufacturing
Retailing
Bachelor's degree
36. Cluster that involves coordinating the movement of people - goods - and services; career cluster - jobs or occupations grouped together because of similar knowledge or skills
On-the-job training (OJT)
Plan
Transportation - Distribution - and Logistics
Goods
37. Cluster that involves services that improve people's quality of life and promote safe - healthy communities
Full-Time Job
Semi-monthly Pay
Human Services
Decision-Making Process
38. Business which two or more people own and operate
Skill
Net pay
Partnership
Law of Demand
39. Amount of money taken from an employee's gross pay for taxes - insurance - social security - and other benefits
Annual Leave
Apprenticeship
Deduction
Enterprise
40. Rules of behavior in the workplace
Specializing
Self-Concept
Work ethic
Application form
41. A description of the goals of a business and how it will operate
Wage
Entry-Level Jobs
Salary Range
Business Plan
42. Jobs requiring less than 35-40 hours a week - depending on the employer
Gross pay
Resource
Part-Time Jobs
Technical
43. A personal evaluation to help you make decisions
Assessment
Screen out
Discrimination
Laws of supply and demand
44. A plan which includes the education and training requirements to reach a career goal
Work
O*Net
Career Action Plan
Job
45. A course that is required before another course can be taken
Salary Range
Long-Term Goal
Prerequisite
Fee
46. Possibility of loss
GED certificate
Full-Time Job
Credit
Risk
47. Receiving a paycheck every other Friday
Bi-Weekly Pay
Brain Orientation
Reference
Discrimination
48. A personal evaluation to help you make decisions
Interest
Assessment
Sole Proprietorship
Skill
49. As the prices decreases producers purchase more
Schedule
Time Management
Law of Demand
Time Management
50. Buying a finished good or service with the intent to resell it by the unit
Retailing
Vendor
Financial aid
Job