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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. Cluster that involves protective and legal services
Loss
Ability
Law Public Safety and Security
Corporation
2. The ability or potential for learning new skills
Aptitude
Interest
Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics
Values Compromise
3. The way in which a person views their own self-worth
Self-Concept
Attitude
Manufacturing
Payroll
4. A free flowing economy based upon the laws of supply and demand to allow individuals or companies to buy and sell goods and/or services at a profit
Career Interest Area
Union
Lifestyle
Free Enterprise System
5. A task one is expected to perform on the job
Work Environment
Competition
Services
Job Duty
6. The combination of attitude - values - interests - and behaviors that identify a person
Technical
Business Plan
Personality
Reference
7. Someone who creates a good or service
Transportation - Distribution - and Logistics
Producer
Elective
Research
8. An amount of money charged by others for services
Sick Leave
Global Economy
Gross pay
Fee
9. To find out more by reading and talking to people
Internet
GED certificate
Listening Skills
Research
10. A document stating that a person has passed a five-part test in the areas of writing - social studies - science - reading - and math
GED certificate
Seasonal Work
Applicant
Laws of supply and demand
11. Cluster that involves protective and legal services
Union dues
Producer
Global Economy
Law Public Safety and Security
12. The steps one takes to make the best decision
Decision-Making Process
career cluster
Producer
Procrastinator
13. An assessment that helps people identify their interest areas
Interest Inventory
Work ethic
Check Stub
Agriculture Food and Natural Resources
14. A group of workers who collectively bargin for higher wages - improved benefits - and better working conditions
Salary
Union
Resource
Full-Time Job
15. Hearing - learning - and retaining verbal information
Stockholder
Vocational
Listening Skills
Applicant
16. A person who works with you
Career Action Plan
Job Outlook
Co-worker
Priortize
17. An individual characterstic that helps one determine their personality
Salary Range
Personality Trait
Services
Corporation
18. Collection of information about oneself
Career Portfolio
Identity
Resume
Long-Term Goal
19. To eliminate unwanted applicants
Financial aid
Screen out
Scholarships
Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics
20. Cluster that involves services involving lodging - entertainment - recreation - and travel; food and beverage management
Study Skills
Hospitality and Tourism
Schedule
Stockholder
21. Learning on the job
Year-to-date earnings
Interview
On-the-job training (OJT)
Apprenticeship
22. As the price increases producers produce more
Law of Supply
Attitude
Listening Skills
Interest Inventory
23. Jobs or careers belonging to the same group on the basis of similar knowledge and skills
Technical
Gross pay
Related Occupations
Goal
24. The surrounding physical conditions of a workplace
Vocation
Work Environment
Credit
Plan
25. A course that is required before another course can be taken
Associate degree
Employment Outlook
Decision
Prerequisite
26. A special skill - knowledge - or ability that enables a person to perform a particular job
Decision-Making Process
Qualification
Listening Skills
Wholesale
27. The future prospects for employment in a particular job or field
Tentative Decision
Entrepreneur
classifieds
Job Outlook
28. A person who owns stock in a company
Career Action Plan
Stockholder
Part-Time Jobs
Business Plan
29. The use of goods or service to make life easier creating new jobs while eliminating others
Enterprise
Technology
Scholarships
Employer
30. Salary of wages given to an employee on a regular basis
Salary
Priortize
Deduction
Payroll
31. Cluster that involves computer and Web-based services; telecommunications services
Enterprise
O*Net
Information Technology
Marketing Sales and Service
32. A special skill - knowledge - or ability that enables a person to perform a particular job
Qualification
Economy
Commission
Evaluate
33. Determining the best way for an individual to study - remember - or learn
Government and Public Administration
Goods
Related Occupations
Study Skills
34. A course or program that teaches job skills
ArkOscar
Producer
Vocational
Entrepreneur
35. An introductory letter written to a prospective employer
Vendor
Law of Demand
classifieds
Letter of Application
36. Cluster that involves designing - building - and repairing structures
Schedule
Conflict
Global Economy
Architecture and Construction
37. Receiving a paycheck every other Friday
Career Interest Area
Stock
Bi-Weekly Pay
Follow-up Letter
38. The computer network system through which information can be shared on the World Wide Web
Internet
Salary Range
Partnership
Plan
39. Relating to a specific field with a high degree of skill or experience
Job Market
Research
Professional
Self-Concept
40. Jobs requiring less than 35-40 hours a week - depending on the employer
Part-Time Jobs
Working Conditions
Year-to-date earnings
Fringe benefits
41. Cluster that involves coordinating the movement of people - goods - and services; career cluster - jobs or occupations grouped together because of similar knowledge or skills
Transportation - Distribution - and Logistics
classifieds
Workforce diversity
Interview
42. A plan which includes the education and training requirements to reach a career goal
Resource
Values Compromise
Career Action Plan
Part-Time Jobs
43. Standard minimum pay received by an employee
Base Pay
Job Market
Applicant
Hospitality and Tourism
44. Someone who purchases a good or service with the intent to use it
Associate degree
Consumer
OOH
Work Values
45. Agreement to complete a job for an amount of money
Contract Labor
Corporation
Entry-Level Jobs
Self-Concept
46. A belief - understanding - and recognition of one's own abilities
Self-Esteem
Learning Style
Bachelor's degree
Enterprise
47. To employ oneself in a particular or specific field of work
Post-secondary education
Bi-Weekly Pay
Aptitude
Specializing
48. Help-wanted section of the newspaper that lists job openings
classifieds
Time Management
Apprenticeship
Vocation
49. Time an employee may take off work with pay
Punctuality
Annual Leave
Union
Architecture and Construction
50. A temporary paid or unpaid position that involves direct work experience in a career field
Post-secondary education
Hospitality and Tourism
Internship
Specializing