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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. 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
Ethnic
Working Conditions
Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics
Laws of supply and demand
2. Undertaking or venture to make more with risk
Enterprise
Technical
Wholesale
Agriculture Food and Natural Resources
3. Determining the best way for an individual to study - remember - or learn
Self-Esteem
Short-Term Goal
Study Skills
Procedure
4. Anything a person has or uses to reach a goal
Punctuality
Partnership
Specializing
Resource
5. Business which two or more people own and operate
Partnership
Research
GED certificate
Hospitality and Tourism
6. A course that is required before another course can be taken
Loss
Prerequisite
Job Shadowing
Values
7. A person's outlook on life - usually positive or negative
Loss
Plan
Business Management and Administration
Attitude
8. The course of action one decides to take at the end of the decision-making process
Outsourcing
Plan
Wage
Enterprise
9. Part of the paycheck that shows earnings and deductions
Semi-monthly Pay
Check Stub
Transportation - Distribution - and Logistics
Co-worker
10. The way in which a person views their own self-worth
Self-Concept
Enterprise
Punctuality
Interest Inventory
11. 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
Free Enterprise System
Job Shadowing
Lifestyle
Post-secondary education
12. A description of the goals of a business and how it will operate
Job lead
Business Plan
Evaluate
Business Management and Administration
13. A group of characteristics that collective form a general group of people with similiar interests - values - and behaviors
Law of Demand
Employer
Personality Type
Sick Leave
14. To give up something to resolve a conflict
Technical
Compromise
Seasonal Work
Annual Leave
15. As the price increases producers produce more
Enterprise
Plan
Demographics
Law of Supply
16. An action or series of actions determined by an employer for a specific process
Career Ladder
Year-to-date earnings
Procedure
Education/Training Requirements
17. A person applying for a job
Applicant
Wholesale
Stock
Vendor
18. Earnings paid twice a month on designated dates
Short-Term Goal
Career Action Plan
Professional
Semi-monthly Pay
19. The use of goods or service to make life easier creating new jobs while eliminating others
Listening Skills
Free Enterprise System
Entry-Level Jobs
Technology
20. Work that a person does for pay
Job Market
Job
Job lead
Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA)
21. To eliminate unwanted applicants
Goods
Screen out
Services
Payroll
22. Possibility of loss
Reference
Procedure
Risk
Screen out
23. Relating to a specific field with a high degree of skill or experience
Manufacturing
Values
Short-Term Goal
Professional
24. Cluster that involves services involving lodging - entertainment - recreation - and travel; food and beverage management
Union
Outsourcing
Elective
Hospitality and Tourism
25. Cluster that involves designing and producing materials into intermediate or final products
Sick Leave
Partnership
O*Net
Manufacturing
26. A productive activity resulting in something useful
Work
Internet
Consumer
Plan
27. Cluster that involves services that improve people's quality of life and promote safe - healthy communities
Brain Orientation
Gross pay
Long-Term Goal
Human Services
28. Amount of money taken from an employee's gross pay for taxes - insurance - social security - and other benefits
Job Duty
Deduction
Interest Inventory
Career
29. To eliminate unwanted applicants
Workforce diversity
Screen out
Economy
Ethnic
30. Being on time for work
Punctuality
Workforce diversity
Prerequisite
Reference
31. The amount of a paycheck after the deductions are taken out
Hospitality and Tourism
Career Interest Area
Self-Concept
Net pay
32. Jobs or careers belonging to the same group on the basis of similar knowledge and skills
Related Occupations
Fringe benefits
Union
Career Ladder
33. The ability or potential for learning new skills
Decision-Making Process
Bi-Weekly Pay
Listening Skills
Aptitude
34. Occupational Information Network compiled by the United States Department of Labor
Law of Supply
Time Management
Employer
O*Net
35. Earnings below the cost of doing business
Loss
Graduate school
Work
Global Economy
36. Cluster that involves providing education and training services; providing support services
Education and Training
Personality Type
Law of Demand
Personality
37. The prospect for the future of a job or career
Employment Outlook
Business Management and Administration
Check Stub
Wage
38. Rules of behavior in the workplace
Law Public Safety and Security
Work ethic
Risk
Goods
39. Someone who creates a good or service
Time Management
Architecture and Construction
Long-Term Goal
Producer
40. A program where a person learns to do a certain job by working with a skilled worker
Apprenticeship
Career Portfolio
Demographics
Competition
41. The computer network system through which information can be shared on the World Wide Web
Career Portfolio
Personality Type
Internet
Risk
42. Careful use of resources including money and materials
Skill
Hospitality and Tourism
Entry-Level Jobs
Economy
43. The ability or potential for learning new skills
Assessment
Aptitude
Career Interest Area
Deduction
44. A course or program that teaches job skills
Work Environment
Resource
Vocational
Bi-Weekly Pay
45. Jobs requiring less than 35-40 hours a week - depending on the employer
Priortize
Orientation
Part-Time Jobs
Outsourcing
46. Jobs requiring less than 35-40 hours a week - depending on the employer
Contract Labor
Union
Interview
Part-Time Jobs
47. Business owned by many people but treated by the law as though it were one person
Salary
Bachelor's degree
Lifestyle
Corporation
48. The course of action one decides to take at the end of the decision-making process
Internet
Interview
Applicant
Plan
49. Following a person on the job to learn job duties and responsibilities
Seasonal Work
OOH
Job Shadowing
Discrimination
50. A service business designed to help put employees and employers together
Producer
Services
Employment Agency
Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics