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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. A share of the ownership in a company
Assessment
Follow-up Letter
Partnership
Stock
2. Cluster that involves regulating and managing local - state - and federal government
Human Services
Law Public Safety and Security
Government and Public Administration
Prerequisite
3. Earnings above base pay
Overtime
Help-wanted ads
Retailing
Wage
4. A personal evaluation to help you make decisions
Temporary Jobs
Ability
Producer
Assessment
5. Earnings above base pay
Overtime
Consumer
Job Duty
Bachelor's degree
6. Extras provided by employers (other than wages)
Seasonal Work
Law of Demand
Decision
Fringe benefits
7. Earnings paid twice a month on designated dates
Listening Skills
Fee
Priortize
Semi-monthly Pay
8. The thing a person enjoys doing or thinking about
Interest
Government and Public Administration
Interview
Compromise
9. Jobs or occupations grouped together because of similar knowledge or skills
Job Shadowing
career cluster
Global Economy
Procedure
10. To find out more by reading and talking to people
Job Market
Vocation
Semi-monthly Pay
Research
11. Careful use of resources including money and materials
Co-worker
Retailing
Economy
Time Management
12. (Occupational Outlook Handbook) A book used for researching the most common careers in the United States
OOH
Health Science
Work
Internet
13. Anything a person has or uses to reach a goal
Resource
Self-Concept
Education and Training
Applicant
14. An introductory letter written to a prospective employer
Retailing
Letter of Application
Vocation
Co-worker
15. A group of characteristics that collective form a general group of people with similiar interests - values - and behaviors
Personality Type
Priortize
OOH
Reference
16. To find out more by reading and talking to people
Education/Training Requirements
Internet
Research
Job Description
17. A computerized career information delivery system
ArkOscar
Law of Supply
Job Shadowing
Stockholder
18. Cluster that involves regulating and managing local - state - and federal government
Government and Public Administration
Employment Agency
Job lead
Punctuality
19. The ability or potential for learning new skills
Skill
Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA)
Help-wanted ads
Aptitude
20. Business which two or more people own and operate
Business Plan
Partnership
Compromise
Union dues
21. A group of workers who collectively bargin for higher wages - improved benefits - and better working conditions
Union
Volunteering
Research
Salary
22. A person who owns stock in a company
Stockholder
Brain Orientation
Corporation
Union dues
23. The way in which a person views their own self-worth
Enterprise
Self-Concept
Entry-Level Jobs
Fringe benefits
24. A long term work plan including education - training - and experience
Personality Trait
Temporary Jobs
Values
Career Goal
25. Time an employee may take off work with pay
Job Outlook
Corporation
Career Interest Area
Annual Leave
26. A temporary paid or unpaid position that involves direct work experience in a career field
Health Science
Internship
Aptitude
Health Science
27. A course or program that teaches job skills
Human Services
Vocational
Ability
Brain Orientation
28. Characteristics or make-up of a population
Temporary Jobs
Evaluate
Demographics
Specializing
29. Cluster that involves providing education and training services; providing support services
Education and Training
Professional
Personality
Career Portfolio
30. A document stating that a person has passed a five-part test in the areas of writing - social studies - science - reading - and math
Volunteering
Free Enterprise System
Job Market
GED certificate
31. Cluster that involves services that improve people's quality of life and promote safe - healthy communities
Job
Human Services
Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA)
Business Plan
32. Treating someone unfairly because of his or her race - religion - or sex
Sole Proprietorship
Discrimination
Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics
Part-Time Jobs
33. The choice between two or more possibilities
Deduction
classifieds
Year-to-date earnings
Decision
34. The type of job in which a person is employed
Occupation
Profit
Procedure
Retailing
35. An amount of money charged by others for services
Education and Training
Fee
Research
Work Environment
36. Undertaking or venture to make more with risk
Job Market
Enterprise
Union
Discrimination
37. Any information about possible job openings
Annual Leave
Employer
Job lead
Evaluate
38. Agreement to complete a job for an amount of money
Occupation
Contract Labor
Bi-Weekly Pay
Co-worker
39. Acquaint or become familiar with a new situation
Networking
Attitude
Job Outlook
Orientation
40. Personal standards by which one lives
Work Values
Law Public Safety and Security
Contract Labor
Values
41. The fee that colleges charge to take their classes
Goal
Tuition
Job Shadowing
Annual Leave
42. A plan of action for education - training - and experience to reach a career goal
Co-worker
Career Ladder
Human Services
Ethnic
43. A belief - understanding - and recognition of one's own abilities
Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA)
Law of Demand
career cluster
Self-Esteem
44. Cluster that involves protective and legal services
Law Public Safety and Security
Specializing
Learning Style
Law of Demand
45. Cluster that involves coordinating the movement of people - goods - and services; career cluster - jobs or occupations grouped together because of similar knowledge or skills
Wage
Plan
Career Action Plan
Transportation - Distribution - and Logistics
46. To give up something to resolve a conflict
Year-to-date earnings
Compromise
Education and Training
Stock
47. A course that is not required but can be chosen by a student according to their interests
Elective
Personnel
Full-Time Job
Job Market
48. A description of the goals of a business and how it will operate
Business Plan
Laws of supply and demand
Procrastinator
Check Stub
49. A plan which includes the education and training requirements to reach a career goal
Career
Work Values
Marketing Sales and Service
Career Action Plan
50. Focusing or concentrating in a particular skill
Professional
Compromise
Specializing
Schedule