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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. Rules of behavior in the workplace
Personality Trait
Decision
Sick Leave
Work ethic
2. A task one is expected to perform on the job
Apprenticeship
Networking
Financial aid
Job Duty
3. Generally 40 Hour work week or more
Human Services
Full-Time Job
Apprenticeship
Employment Agency
4. Commoney known as Social Security
Lifestyle
Net pay
Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA)
Arts Audio-Video Technology and Communications
5. Amount of money taken from an employee's gross pay for taxes - insurance - social security - and other benefits
Employment Agency
Technology
Deduction
Stock
6. The person who has hires someone to do a job
Consumer
Lifestyle
Employer
Sick Leave
7. A computerized career information delivery system
Professional
ArkOscar
Attitude
Procedure
8. A wide variety of workers with different backgrounds - experiences - ideas - and skills in the workplace
Wholesale
Career Interest Area
Check Stub
Workforce diversity
9. Methods of paying for education/training - such as grants - scholarships - etc.
Time Management
Financial aid
OOH
Priortize
10. Part of the paycheck that shows earnings and deductions
Check Stub
Ethnic
Listening Skills
Hospitality and Tourism
11. Cluster that involves developing - promoting - and providing goods to consumers; performing tasks for consumers
Letter of Application
Marketing Sales and Service
O*Net
Year-to-date earnings
12. A skill that has been developed
Year-to-date earnings
Law of Demand
Study Skills
Ability
13. A decision or plan that can be changed
Deduction
Aptitude
Tentative Decision
Job Shadowing
14. A long term work plan including education - training - and experience
Career Goal
Overtime
Job Outlook
Prerequisite
15. Generally 40 Hour work week or more
Goal
Full-Time Job
Producer
Specializing
16. Employment during special seasons
Retailing
Resume
Temporary Jobs
Work Values
17. An introductory letter written to a prospective employer
Bi-Weekly Pay
Letter of Application
Ethnic
Economy
18. Collection of information about oneself
Agriculture Food and Natural Resources
Identity
Producer
Career Portfolio
19. To give up something to resolve a conflict
Procedure
Vocational
Work ethic
Compromise
20. Payment for work - usually figured by the hour
Identity
Enterprise
Wage
Demographics
21. The fee that colleges charge to take their classes
Tuition
Discrimination
Check Stub
Transportation - Distribution - and Logistics
22. Economic rules which influence consumer buying decisions
Salary
Laws of supply and demand
Enterprise
Decision
23. The steps one takes to make the best decision
Stockholder
Application form
Agriculture Food and Natural Resources
Decision-Making Process
24. Any information about possible job openings
Employment Agency
Commission
Job lead
Transportation - Distribution - and Logistics
25. A formal meeting between an employer and job applicant about a job opening
Interview
Year-to-date earnings
Partnership
Scholarships
26. Determining the best way for an individual to study - remember - or learn
Study Skills
Personnel
Employment Outlook
Law of Supply
27. Treating someone unfairly because of his or her race - religion - or sex
Brain Orientation
Discrimination
Research
Procrastinator
28. A productive activity resulting in something useful
Services
Work
Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics
Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA)
29. To find out more by reading and talking to people
Finance
Qualification
Research
Outsourcing
30. A certificate of completion awarded to a person after completing a program of study in a particular area - usually lasting 2 years
Associate degree
Producer
Long-Term Goal
Sick Leave
31. A group of characteristics that collective form a general group of people with similiar interests - values - and behaviors
Commission
Values Compromise
Personality Type
Plan
32. To eliminate unwanted applicants
Career Ladder
Goods
Post-secondary education
Screen out
33. Business which two or more people own and operate
Follow-up Letter
Personnel
Partnership
Law of Demand
34. Jobs with similiar work actvities
Internet
Career Interest Area
Human Services
Interview
35. The jobs that beginners start with to train them for higher-level jobs
Full-Time Job
Employment Outlook
Seasonal Work
Entry-Level Jobs
36. A group of workers who collectively bargin for higher wages - improved benefits - and better working conditions
Commission
Manufacturing
Procedure
Union
37. The need for workers in a particular occupation or field
Employer
Job Market
Plan
Business Plan
38. Money received for education that does not have to be repaid
Scholarships
Temporary Jobs
Job Shadowing
Ability
39. A course that is required before another course can be taken
Prerequisite
Commission
Occupation
Self-Esteem
40. Cluster that involves the systematic use of observations and experiments to gain knowledge about the world; the practical use of scientific knowledge; solving practical problems by combining science and mathematics with technology; the study of numbe
Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics
Occupation
Employer
Prerequisite
41. Business owned by many people but treated by the law as though it were one person
Union
OOH
Corporation
Interest Inventory
42. The total amount of an employee's earnings before deductions are taken out
Manufacturing
Identity
Gross pay
Specializing
43. The planning and using of time
Laws of supply and demand
Follow-up Letter
Time Management
Discrimination
44. The choice between two or more possibilities
Loss
Skill
Decision
Bi-Weekly Pay
45. The need for workers in a particular occupation or field
Graduate school
Job Market
Priortize
Interest
46. Fixed amount of money earned - regardless of hours worked; pay that is calculated exactly the same for every check
Volunteering
Salary
Networking
Study Skills
47. The course of action one decides to take at the end of the decision-making process
Career Action Plan
Plan
Employer
Research
48. Cluster that involves the science of maintaining and improving people's physical and mental well-being
Fee
Job Outlook
Health Science
Listening Skills
49. As the price increases producers produce more
Career
Law of Supply
Vocation
Career
50. The tool that employers use to find out basic information about job applicants
Application form
Decision-Making Process
Follow-up Letter
Services