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Career Orientation Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Someone who purchases a good or service with the intent to use it
Consumer
Career Portfolio
Personality Type
Values
2. (Occupational Outlook Handbook) A book used for researching the most common careers in the United States
Assessment
OOH
Interest
Education/Training Requirements
3. Rules of behavior in the workplace
Post-secondary education
Sole Proprietorship
Work ethic
Risk
4. Money accounted for from January 1st through the current pay period
classifieds
Evaluate
Personality
Year-to-date earnings
5. A person who organizes - manages - and assumes the risk of a business
Vendor
Entrepreneur
Work ethic
Full-Time Job
6. When a person has to give up part of something they value to resolve a conflict
Procrastinator
Values Compromise
Specializing
Work Environment
7. Jobs or occupations grouped together because of similar knowledge or skills
career cluster
Occupation
Study Skills
Bi-Weekly Pay
8. An assessment that helps people identify their interest areas
Apprenticeship
O*Net
Interest Inventory
Applicant
9. A personal evaluation to help you make decisions
Attitude
Follow-up Letter
Assessment
Retailing
10. A special skill - knowledge - or ability that enables a person to perform a particular job
Personnel
Orientation
Application form
Qualification
11. Something a person wants to acheive later in life requiring much planning
Working Conditions
Stockholder
Long-Term Goal
Elective
12. The fee that colleges charge to take their classes
Working Conditions
Time Management
Lifestyle
Tuition
13. Jobs or careers belonging to the same group on the basis of similar knowledge and skills
Check Stub
Business Plan
Related Occupations
Decision
14. An objective that a person wants to obtain and works to achieve
Procedure
Education/Training Requirements
Goal
Check Stub
15. Cluster that involves designing and producing materials into intermediate or final products
Producer
Manufacturing
Retailing
Tentative Decision
16. Earnings below the cost of doing business
Learning Style
Letter of Application
Loss
Work
17. The surrounding physical conditions of a workplace
Time Management
GED certificate
Payroll
Work Environment
18. Doing a job without pay to gain experience
Volunteering
Union dues
Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics
Qualification
19. The instructional background and skills needed to qualify for employment
Attitude
Education/Training Requirements
Listening Skills
Job Market
20. Worldwide financial management system
Conflict
Resume
Global Economy
Procrastinator
21. 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
Prerequisite
Personnel
Elective
Agriculture Food and Natural Resources
22. Collection of information about oneself
Business Plan
Career Portfolio
Career Action Plan
Payroll
23. A plan which includes the education and training requirements to reach a career goal
Job Market
Stock
Career Action Plan
Specializing
24. The use of goods or service to make life easier creating new jobs while eliminating others
classifieds
Goal
Technology
Vocational
25. Work that a person does for pay
Career Action Plan
Procrastinator
Job lead
Job
26. Cluster that involves visual and performing arts; multimedia communications; journalism
Arts Audio-Video Technology and Communications
Apprenticeship
Laws of supply and demand
Tuition
27. A person who organizes - manages - and assumes the risk of a business
Punctuality
Entrepreneur
Reference
Interest Inventory
28. Careful use of resources including money and materials
Bachelor's degree
Economy
Services
Commission
29. A group of characteristics that collective form a general group of people with similiar interests - values - and behaviors
Human Services
Apprenticeship
Technology
Personality Type
30. Methods of paying for education/training - such as grants - scholarships - etc.
Resource
Financial aid
Internship
Gross pay
31. Units of measurement which schools use to determine whether or not students are progressing toward graduation
career cluster
Economy
Personality Trait
Credit
32. To employ oneself in a particular or specific field of work
Stockholder
Specializing
Laws of supply and demand
Orientation
33. A productive activity resulting in something useful
Procrastinator
Entry-Level Jobs
O*Net
Work
34. The steps one takes to make the best decision
Fee
Job Market
Union
Decision-Making Process
35. Focusing or concentrating in a particular skill
Hospitality and Tourism
Career Action Plan
Job Description
Specializing
36. Business owned by one person
Union
Assessment
Sole Proprietorship
Fee
37. Extras provided by employers (other than wages)
Research
Letter of Application
Annual Leave
Fringe benefits
38. Using People in Mexico to assemble parts; utilizing external resources
Outsourcing
Free Enterprise System
Wage
GED certificate
39. A person applying for a job
Conflict
Career Ladder
Work Environment
Applicant
40. Determining the best way for an individual to study - remember - or learn
Study Skills
Apprenticeship
Profit
Personality
41. Jobs that last for a limited period of time
Temporary Jobs
Global Economy
Profit
Sole Proprietorship
42. An amount of money charged by others for services
OOH
Time Management
Fee
Contract Labor
43. Business which two or more people own and operate
Partnership
Part-Time Jobs
Demographics
Decision
44. Average expected earnings from beginning to experienced pay
Resource
Salary Range
Manufacturing
Compromise
45. Notices that employers put in the classified section of the paper describing their job openings
Help-wanted ads
Internship
Bi-Weekly Pay
Full-Time Job
46. The fee that colleges charge to take their classes
Deduction
Stockholder
Tuition
Assessment
47. Jobs requiring less than 35-40 hours a week - depending on the employer
Manufacturing
Part-Time Jobs
Law of Supply
Career Portfolio
48. The work done over a period of years in one area of interest
Related Occupations
Professional
O*Net
Career
49. A short written description of an applicant's personal data - education - and experience - related to a job
Discrimination
Business Management and Administration
Resume
Priortize
50. A thank you letter written following an interview
Services
Marketing Sales and Service
Personality Trait
Follow-up Letter