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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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1. Fixed amount of money earned - regardless of hours worked; pay that is calculated exactly the same for every check
Salary
Education/Training Requirements
Orientation
Conflict
2. The personality or activity by which a person is known
Transportation - Distribution - and Logistics
Work Environment
Identity
Profit
3. The instructional background and skills needed to qualify for employment
Job Outlook
Education/Training Requirements
Bachelor's degree
Career Action Plan
4. A person who organizes - manages - and assumes the risk of a business
Free Enterprise System
Entrepreneur
Personality
Risk
5. The surrounding physical conditions of a workplace
Salary
Work
Profit
Work Environment
6. Generally 40 Hour work week or more
Interest
Resource
Employer
Full-Time Job
7. Cluster that involves acquiring - investing - and managing money
Finance
Help-wanted ads
Wholesale
Working Conditions
8. A task one is expected to perform on the job
Job Duty
Sick Leave
Sole Proprietorship
Semi-monthly Pay
9. Characteristics or make-up of a population
Demographics
Attitude
Tentative Decision
Technology
10. A person who works with you
Co-worker
Personality
Punctuality
Finance
11. Acquaint or become familiar with a new situation
Agriculture Food and Natural Resources
Job Shadowing
Aptitude
Orientation
12. The ability to perform a certain activity well
Career
Stock
Skill
Schedule
13. Any information about possible job openings
Job lead
Co-worker
Retailing
Sick Leave
14. Money received for education that does not have to be repaid
Compromise
Job Market
Manufacturing
Scholarships
15. Jobs or occupations grouped together because of similar knowledge or skills
Employment Outlook
Temporary Jobs
Goods
career cluster
16. The fee that colleges charge to take their classes
Post-secondary education
Full-Time Job
Tuition
GED certificate
17. Acquaint or become familiar with a new situation
Values Compromise
Identity
Orientation
Applicant
18. To find out more by reading and talking to people
Volunteering
Research
Sick Leave
classifieds
19. A certificate of completion awarded to a person after they successfully complete a required set of college courses in both general and specific areas - usually lasting 4 years
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20. Pay that is based upon the percentage of sales
Technology
Health Science
Work ethic
Commission
21. Earnings below the cost of doing business
Loss
Conflict
Employer
Law of Supply
22. A decision or plan that can be changed
Procrastinator
Tentative Decision
Co-worker
Research
23. Someone who sells goods or services
Discrimination
Demographics
Post-secondary education
Vendor
24. A description of the goals of a business and how it will operate
Full-Time Job
Decision-Making Process
Business Plan
Marketing Sales and Service
25. A wide variety of workers with different backgrounds - experiences - ideas - and skills in the workplace
OOH
Ability
Workforce diversity
Punctuality
26. Cumulative time given to employees for personal or family illness with pay
Sick Leave
GED certificate
Annual Leave
Decision
27. Clash of ideas or values
Working Conditions
Financial aid
Conflict
Career Goal
28. Cluster that involves computer and Web-based services; telecommunications services
Information Technology
Letter of Application
Brain Orientation
Volunteering
29. Cluster that involves planning - organizing - and directing business operations
Business Management and Administration
Internet
Temporary Jobs
Working Conditions
30. Cluster that involves designing and producing materials into intermediate or final products
Manufacturing
Government and Public Administration
Competition
Sick Leave
31. To look at closely and judge
Deduction
Evaluate
Ability
Discrimination
32. Something a person wants to acheive later in life requiring much planning
Long-Term Goal
Study Skills
Global Economy
Technical
33. A person applying for a job
Applicant
Employment Outlook
On-the-job training (OJT)
Career Portfolio
34. A belief - understanding - and recognition of one's own abilities
Bi-Weekly Pay
Long-Term Goal
Self-Esteem
Related Occupations
35. To find out more by reading and talking to people
Research
Risk
Plan
Business Management and Administration
36. A plan of action for education - training - and experience to reach a career goal
Study Skills
Job Outlook
Semi-monthly Pay
Career Ladder
37. Following a person on the job to learn job duties and responsibilities
Career
Job Shadowing
Goal
Marketing Sales and Service
38. A program where a person learns to do a certain job by working with a skilled worker
Apprenticeship
Interest
Outsourcing
Technology
39. A course that is not required but can be chosen by a student according to their interests
Information Technology
Internship
Manufacturing
Elective
40. To make a plan or arrange things that must be done
Research
Schedule
Union
Volunteering
41. When two or more companies rival for consumer dollars
Competition
Transportation - Distribution - and Logistics
Career
Wage
42. Tangible merchandise that you can see and touch
classifieds
Work
Plan
Goods
43. The environment of the workplace
Volunteering
Working Conditions
Long-Term Goal
Networking
44. Commoney known as Social Security
Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA)
Interview
Applicant
Overtime
45. Standard minimum pay received by an employee
Base Pay
Law of Demand
Career Action Plan
Annual Leave
46. The combination of attitude - values - interests - and behaviors that identify a person
Gross pay
Personality
Elective
Study Skills
47. The need for workers in a particular occupation or field
Demographics
Job Market
Salary Range
Loss
48. Arrange things in order from the most important to the least important
Salary
Priortize
Personnel
Career Interest Area
49. Buying a finished good or service with the intent to resell it by the unit
Retailing
Agriculture Food and Natural Resources
Elective
Help-wanted ads
50. Jobs or careers belonging to the same group on the basis of similar knowledge and skills
Related Occupations
Application form
Job
Wholesale