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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. Earnings paid twice a month on designated dates
Education and Training
classifieds
Schedule
Semi-monthly Pay
2. Way in which one uses or utilitizes the brain best
Interest
Brain Orientation
Risk
Follow-up Letter
3. Rules of behavior in the workplace
Global Economy
Tuition
Personality Trait
Work ethic
4. Cluster that involves designing and producing materials into intermediate or final products
Payroll
Manufacturing
Working Conditions
Career Ladder
5. Time an employee may take off work with pay
Retailing
Related Occupations
Annual Leave
Demographics
6. Determining the best way for an individual to study - remember - or learn
Base Pay
Producer
Short-Term Goal
Study Skills
7. The combination of attitude - values - interests - and behaviors that identify a person
Graduate school
career cluster
Personality
Occupation
8. Relating to races or groups of people with common customs
Career Action Plan
Ethnic
Payroll
Human Services
9. Someone who purchases a good or service with the intent to use it
Consumer
Career Goal
Stockholder
Letter of Application
10. Earnings below the cost of doing business
Loss
Interview
Architecture and Construction
Vocational
11. An occupation one is well-suited or qualified for
Graduate school
Vocation
O*Net
Vocational
12. The fee that colleges charge to take their classes
Tuition
Graduate school
Work Values
Specializing
13. A person who organizes - manages - and assumes the risk of a business
Marketing Sales and Service
Follow-up Letter
Networking
Entrepreneur
14. A long term work plan including education - training - and experience
Lifestyle
Consumer
Career Goal
Schedule
15. Cluster that involves computer and Web-based services; telecommunications services
Human Services
Skill
Study Skills
Information Technology
16. An action or series of actions determined by an employer for a specific process
Arts Audio-Video Technology and Communications
Technology
Brain Orientation
Procedure
17. Cluster that involves computer and Web-based services; telecommunications services
Compromise
Deduction
Information Technology
Brain Orientation
18. Earnings paid twice a month on designated dates
Semi-monthly Pay
Time Management
Global Economy
Sole Proprietorship
19. The instructional background and skills needed to qualify for employment
Corporation
Technical
Law of Supply
Education/Training Requirements
20. Something one wants to obtain in the near future generally less than 5 years
Finance
Short-Term Goal
Work
Long-Term Goal
21. An objective that a person wants to obtain and works to achieve
Career Ladder
Job Market
Consumer
Goal
22. To eliminate unwanted applicants
Interview
Screen out
Career Goal
Interest Inventory
23. Occupational Information Network compiled by the United States Department of Labor
Partnership
career cluster
Employment Agency
O*Net
24. Using People in Mexico to assemble parts; utilizing external resources
Enterprise
Outsourcing
Values Compromise
Evaluate
25. The thing a person enjoys doing or thinking about
Brain Orientation
Interest
Learning Style
Job Description
26. Jobs that last for a limited period of time
Temporary Jobs
Follow-up Letter
Manufacturing
Work ethic
27. A wide variety of workers with different backgrounds - experiences - ideas - and skills in the workplace
Study Skills
Workforce diversity
Overtime
Occupation
28. Generally 40 Hour work week or more
Time Management
Full-Time Job
Year-to-date earnings
Time Management
29. Money earned above the cost of doing business
Procrastinator
Profit
Contract Labor
Career Action Plan
30. The ability to perform a certain activity well
Volunteering
Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics
Skill
Job Shadowing
31. As the prices decreases producers purchase more
Law of Demand
Job Shadowing
Commission
Study Skills
32. A program where a person learns to do a certain job by working with a skilled worker
Apprenticeship
Ability
Overtime
Self-Concept
33. Arrange things in order from the most important to the least important
Personality
Full-Time Job
Architecture and Construction
Priortize
34. Occupational Information Network compiled by the United States Department of Labor
Architecture and Construction
Part-Time Jobs
Networking
O*Net
35. Pay that is based upon the percentage of sales
On-the-job training (OJT)
Learning Style
Commission
Information Technology
36. Business owned by one person
Sole Proprietorship
Gross pay
Manufacturing
Enterprise
37. Jobs or occupations grouped together because of similar knowledge or skills
career cluster
Time Management
Resource
Technical
38. Extras provided by employers (other than wages)
Career Portfolio
Fringe benefits
Contract Labor
Salary Range
39. Characteristics or make-up of a population
Demographics
Job Description
Stockholder
Research
40. Doing a job without pay to gain experience
Volunteering
Occupation
Manufacturing
Job Description
41. A computerized career information delivery system
ArkOscar
Short-Term Goal
Full-Time Job
Gross pay
42. A share of the ownership in a company
Job Market
Vocational
Employment Outlook
Stock
43. The use of goods or service to make life easier creating new jobs while eliminating others
Personnel
Procrastinator
Study Skills
Technology
44. Cluster that involves developing - promoting - and providing goods to consumers; performing tasks for consumers
Skill
Marketing Sales and Service
Deduction
Check Stub
45. Learning on the job
Prerequisite
Laws of supply and demand
Job lead
On-the-job training (OJT)
46. A program of study beyond a bachelor's degree
Payroll
Arts Audio-Video Technology and Communications
Part-Time Jobs
Graduate school
47. (Occupational Outlook Handbook) A book used for researching the most common careers in the United States
Plan
OOH
GED certificate
Check Stub
48. Employment during special seasons
Follow-up Letter
Temporary Jobs
career cluster
Gross pay
49. Arrange things in order from the most important to the least important
Discrimination
Applicant
Priortize
Co-worker
50. Treating someone unfairly because of his or her race - religion - or sex
Career Ladder
Discrimination
Seasonal Work
Credit