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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 person who owns stock in a company
Conflict
Economy
Stockholder
Work
2. Collection of information about oneself
Skill
Internet
Work
Career Portfolio
3. Cluster that involves services involving lodging - entertainment - recreation - and travel; food and beverage management
Seasonal Work
Temporary Jobs
Hospitality and Tourism
Graduate school
4. The choice between two or more possibilities
Orientation
Year-to-date earnings
Education/Training Requirements
Decision
5. A course that is required before another course can be taken
Profit
Economy
Prerequisite
Credit
6. Money earned above the cost of doing business
Professional
Lifestyle
Profit
Personality
7. A description of the goals of a business and how it will operate
Job Duty
Business Plan
Transportation - Distribution - and Logistics
Working Conditions
8. A computerized career information delivery system
ArkOscar
classifieds
Consumer
Elective
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
Work Values
Follow-up Letter
Agriculture Food and Natural Resources
Values Compromise
10. Continuing for a long period of time to accomplish a task
Listening Skills
Vendor
Education and Training
Persistent
11. Something a person wants to acheive later in life requiring much planning
Full-Time Job
Job Description
Long-Term Goal
Economy
12. The ability or potential for learning new skills
Bachelor's degree
Resume
Year-to-date earnings
Aptitude
13. An action or series of actions determined by an employer for a specific process
Qualification
Tuition
Employer
Procedure
14. (Occupational Outlook Handbook) A book used for researching the most common careers in the United States
Free Enterprise System
OOH
Graduate school
Work Values
15. To find out more by reading and talking to people
Self-Esteem
Specializing
Research
Laws of supply and demand
16. Payment for work - usually figured by the hour
Wage
OOH
Career Interest Area
Identity
17. Cluster that involves services that improve people's quality of life and promote safe - healthy communities
Post-secondary education
Information Technology
Net pay
Human Services
18. An occupation one is well-suited or qualified for
Vocation
Co-worker
classifieds
Law of Demand
19. A group of employees
Procrastinator
Competition
Research
Personnel
20. Rules of behavior in the workplace
Work ethic
Interest
Personality
Job Market
21. The steps one takes to make the best decision
Schedule
Decision-Making Process
Career
Elective
22. Work that a person does for pay
Commission
Union
Job
Economy
23. Jobs with similiar work actvities
Career Interest Area
Technology
Graduate school
Short-Term Goal
24. A wide variety of workers with different backgrounds - experiences - ideas - and skills in the workplace
Personality Type
Workforce diversity
Sick Leave
Attitude
25. A skill that has been developed
career cluster
Fee
Internship
Ability
26. The planning and using of time
Hospitality and Tourism
Retailing
Time Management
Contract Labor
27. Personal standards by which one lives
Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA)
Values
Brain Orientation
Bi-Weekly Pay
28. To make a plan or arrange things that must be done
Schedule
Manufacturing
Stockholder
Self-Concept
29. An amount of money charged by others for services
Job Outlook
Fee
Career Goal
Business Management and Administration
30. Temporary work during the summer
Seasonal Work
Technology
Temporary Jobs
Temporary Jobs
31. Money accounted for from January 1st through the current pay period
Schedule
Net pay
Long-Term Goal
Year-to-date earnings
32. An action or series of actions determined by an employer for a specific process
Career Ladder
Procedure
Decision-Making Process
Interest Inventory
33. Any information about possible job openings
Job lead
Corporation
Graduate school
Apprenticeship
34. Learning on the job
On-the-job training (OJT)
Working Conditions
Contract Labor
Vocation
35. Business owned by many people but treated by the law as though it were one person
Payroll
Hospitality and Tourism
Corporation
Law of Supply
36. Doing a job without pay to gain experience
Working Conditions
Occupation
Volunteering
Internet
37. An introductory letter written to a prospective employer
Letter of Application
Values Compromise
Procrastinator
Work ethic
38. When a person has to give up part of something they value to resolve a conflict
Career Action Plan
Contract Labor
Job
Values Compromise
39. Treating someone unfairly because of his or her race - religion - or sex
Information Technology
Tuition
Temporary Jobs
Discrimination
40. An amount of money charged by others for services
Post-secondary education
Wage
Partnership
Fee
41. A decision or plan that can be changed
Law Public Safety and Security
Tentative Decision
Listening Skills
Consumer
42. Amount of money taken from an employee's gross pay for taxes - insurance - social security - and other benefits
Deduction
Help-wanted ads
Plan
Job Duty
43. Standards one believes is important about their work
classifieds
Work Values
Base Pay
Compromise
44. A computerized career information delivery system
Vendor
ArkOscar
Check Stub
Education and Training
45. The fee that colleges charge to take their classes
Identity
Tuition
Education and Training
Fee
46. The steps one takes to make the best decision
Associate degree
Decision-Making Process
Enterprise
Plan
47. The thing a person enjoys doing or thinking about
Networking
Interest
Punctuality
Orientation
48. A wide variety of workers with different backgrounds - experiences - ideas - and skills in the workplace
Workforce diversity
On-the-job training (OJT)
Arts Audio-Video Technology and Communications
Co-worker
49. Cluster that involves the science of maintaining and improving people's physical and mental well-being
Outsourcing
Volunteering
Human Services
Health Science
50. Earnings below the cost of doing business
Deduction
Full-Time Job
Profit
Loss