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Career Orientation Basics
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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. A productive activity resulting in something useful
Partnership
Work
Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA)
Values
2. Relating to a specific field with a high degree of skill or experience
Partnership
Professional
Self-Concept
Job Outlook
3. The use of goods or service to make life easier creating new jobs while eliminating others
Work ethic
Conflict
Long-Term Goal
Technology
4. The choice between two or more possibilities
Job Description
Related Occupations
Decision
Transportation - Distribution - and Logistics
5. Tangible merchandise that you can see and touch
Personality Type
Goods
Union dues
Employment Agency
6. Jobs that last for a limited period of time
Payroll
Career Action Plan
Temporary Jobs
Consumer
7. Cluster that involves the science of maintaining and improving people's physical and mental well-being
Partnership
Career Ladder
Health Science
Semi-monthly Pay
8. Focusing or concentrating in a particular skill
Finance
Business Plan
Specializing
Work Environment
9. Money accounted for from January 1st through the current pay period
Year-to-date earnings
Long-Term Goal
Net pay
Evaluate
10. Payment for work - usually figured by the hour
Resource
Retailing
Overtime
Wage
11. Business owned by one person
Learning Style
Related Occupations
Sole Proprietorship
Ethnic
12. Characteristics or make-up of a population
Year-to-date earnings
Demographics
Related Occupations
Listening Skills
13. Intangible work done for others as an occupation
Services
Work ethic
Employment Agency
Wage
14. The surrounding physical conditions of a workplace
Free Enterprise System
Post-secondary education
Stockholder
Work Environment
15. Economic rules which influence consumer buying decisions
Elective
Laws of supply and demand
Salary Range
Personnel
16. The prospect for the future of a job or career
Employment Outlook
Finance
Annual Leave
Interview
17. Help-wanted section of the newspaper that lists job openings
Conflict
classifieds
Working Conditions
Fringe benefits
18. A person who organizes - manages - and assumes the risk of a business
Identity
Employment Agency
Marketing Sales and Service
Entrepreneur
19. A skill that has been developed
Career Portfolio
Ability
Internet
Entry-Level Jobs
20. Average expected earnings from beginning to experienced pay
Marketing Sales and Service
Decision-Making Process
Salary Range
Skill
21. A belief - understanding - and recognition of one's own abilities
Global Economy
Services
Self-Esteem
Job Description
22. Determining the best way for an individual to study - remember - or learn
Credit
Full-Time Job
Study Skills
Compromise
23. Receiving a paycheck every other Friday
Financial aid
Study Skills
Bi-Weekly Pay
Screen out
24. (Occupational Outlook Handbook) A book used for researching the most common careers in the United States
Annual Leave
Commission
OOH
Values Compromise
25. The total amount of an employee's earnings before deductions are taken out
Workforce diversity
Gross pay
Personality Trait
Study Skills
26. Following a person on the job to learn job duties and responsibilities
Free Enterprise System
Professional
Marketing Sales and Service
Job Shadowing
27. Relating to races or groups of people with common customs
Ethnic
Professional
Career Portfolio
Check Stub
28. To find out more by reading and talking to people
Job Duty
Technology
O*Net
Research
29. The type of job in which a person is employed
Sole Proprietorship
Entrepreneur
Employer
Occupation
30. The ability to perform a certain activity well
Qualification
Skill
Education/Training Requirements
Laws of supply and demand
31. Cluster that involves developing - promoting - and providing goods to consumers; performing tasks for consumers
Evaluate
Procedure
Marketing Sales and Service
Graduate school
32. Someone who purchases a good or service with the intent to use it
Services
Resume
Stockholder
Consumer
33. Learning on the job
On-the-job training (OJT)
Base Pay
Education and Training
Research
34. Time an employee may take off work with pay
Co-worker
Ethnic
Consumer
Annual Leave
35. Any education or training following high school
Free Enterprise System
Post-secondary education
Personality Type
Manufacturing
36. The amount of a paycheck after the deductions are taken out
Net pay
Self-Esteem
Corporation
Job Shadowing
37. A temporary paid or unpaid position that involves direct work experience in a career field
Vocational
Working Conditions
Risk
Internship
38. As the price increases producers produce more
Law of Supply
Prerequisite
Assessment
Business Plan
39. A program where a person learns to do a certain job by working with a skilled worker
Apprenticeship
Services
Job
Retailing
40. Treating someone unfairly because of his or her race - religion - or sex
Temporary Jobs
Stockholder
Schedule
Discrimination
41. Commoney known as Social Security
Ethnic
Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA)
Hospitality and Tourism
Business Plan
42. Hearing - learning - and retaining verbal information
Ethnic
Listening Skills
Plan
Related Occupations
43. Earnings below the cost of doing business
Government and Public Administration
Brain Orientation
Loss
Tuition
44. The combination of attitude - values - interests - and behaviors that identify a person
Job Market
Personality
Payroll
Self-Concept
45. Jobs or careers belonging to the same group on the basis of similar knowledge and skills
Interest Inventory
Education and Training
Career
Related Occupations
46. Someone who sells goods or services
Vendor
Competition
Base Pay
Check Stub
47. Hearing - learning - and retaining verbal information
Persistent
Listening Skills
Employment Agency
Demographics
48. Fees charged by an organization to unite employees
Union dues
Working Conditions
Health Science
OOH
49. Collection of information about oneself
Deduction
Career Portfolio
Retailing
On-the-job training (OJT)
50. Employment during special seasons
Temporary Jobs
Vocational
Decision-Making Process
Career Interest Area