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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 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
Financial aid
Study Skills
Semi-monthly Pay
Free Enterprise System
2. The type of job in which a person is employed
Occupation
Application form
Volunteering
Goods
3. A program of study beyond a bachelor's degree
Plan
Professional
Arts Audio-Video Technology and Communications
Graduate school
4. Occupational Information Network compiled by the United States Department of Labor
Risk
Job Duty
O*Net
Manufacturing
5. The need for workers in a particular occupation or field
Follow-up Letter
Net pay
Semi-monthly Pay
Job Market
6. A person who will give a favorable report of a job applicant to the employer
Lifestyle
Work Environment
Reference
Procrastinator
7. Time an employee may take off work with pay
Annual Leave
Values Compromise
Part-Time Jobs
Personnel
8. An amount of money charged by others for services
Fee
Punctuality
Work Values
Values Compromise
9. Relating to races or groups of people with common customs
Job Duty
Ethnic
Temporary Jobs
Values Compromise
10. Continuing for a long period of time to accomplish a task
Persistent
Working Conditions
Union
Net pay
11. Cumulative time given to employees for personal or family illness with pay
Internet
Job Description
Sick Leave
Apprenticeship
12. Receiving a paycheck every other Friday
Specializing
Bi-Weekly Pay
Business Plan
Human Services
13. Jobs with similiar work actvities
Persistent
Career Interest Area
Fringe benefits
Union dues
14. Cluster that involves computer and Web-based services; telecommunications services
Technology
Information Technology
Procrastinator
Elective
15. Cluster that involves services that improve people's quality of life and promote safe - healthy communities
Fee
Long-Term Goal
Human Services
Bi-Weekly Pay
16. A belief - understanding - and recognition of one's own abilities
Self-Esteem
Education/Training Requirements
Ethnic
Identity
17. The total amount of an employee's earnings before deductions are taken out
Plan
Specializing
Gross pay
Applicant
18. As the prices decreases producers purchase more
Qualification
Law of Demand
Professional
Employer
19. A person who works with you
Law of Demand
Career
Credit
Co-worker
20. Commoney known as Social Security
Self-Concept
Elective
Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA)
Applicant
21. The environment of the workplace
Job Description
Internship
Consumer
Working Conditions
22. Arrange things in order from the most important to the least important
Priortize
Goods
Specializing
Seasonal Work
23. A definition of work duties
Self-Concept
Job Description
Graduate school
Job Shadowing
24. To eliminate unwanted applicants
Architecture and Construction
Listening Skills
Long-Term Goal
Screen out
25. Cluster that involves services involving lodging - entertainment - recreation - and travel; food and beverage management
Compromise
Tentative Decision
Hospitality and Tourism
Internship
26. Possibility of loss
Persistent
Entrepreneur
Risk
Job Market
27. Amount of money taken from an employee's gross pay for taxes - insurance - social security - and other benefits
Skill
Deduction
Part-Time Jobs
ArkOscar
28. A group of workers who collectively bargin for higher wages - improved benefits - and better working conditions
Union
Decision
Net pay
Work Environment
29. A person who works with you
Scholarships
Part-Time Jobs
Architecture and Construction
Co-worker
30. Cluster that involves protective and legal services
Hospitality and Tourism
Compromise
Sole Proprietorship
Law Public Safety and Security
31. A wide variety of workers with different backgrounds - experiences - ideas - and skills in the workplace
Orientation
Salary
Resource
Workforce diversity
32. Cluster that involves the science of maintaining and improving people's physical and mental well-being
Education/Training Requirements
Screen out
Health Science
Wage
33. A program of study beyond a bachelor's degree
Loss
Business Management and Administration
Graduate school
Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics
34. The personality or activity by which a person is known
Temporary Jobs
Work
Identity
Demographics
35. A course or program that teaches job skills
Screen out
Services
Plan
Vocational
36. The type of job in which a person is employed
Global Economy
Economy
Values
Occupation
37. Treating someone unfairly because of his or her race - religion - or sex
Prerequisite
Discrimination
Contract Labor
Law of Supply
38. 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
Job Description
Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics
Internship
Specializing
39. Cluster that involves regulating and managing local - state - and federal government
Government and Public Administration
Health Science
Entrepreneur
Stock
40. When a person has to give up part of something they value to resolve a conflict
Business Plan
Procedure
Values Compromise
Specializing
41. The total amount of an employee's earnings before deductions are taken out
Gross pay
Internet
Retailing
Technical
42. The planning and using of time
Career Portfolio
Time Management
Entry-Level Jobs
Follow-up Letter
43. The work done over a period of years in one area of interest
Working Conditions
Job Outlook
Entrepreneur
Career
44. One who puts off doing things or making decisions
Procrastinator
Work
Government and Public Administration
Interest Inventory
45. 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
Services
Marketing Sales and Service
Employment Agency
Agriculture Food and Natural Resources
46. The instructional background and skills needed to qualify for employment
Employer
Full-Time Job
Arts Audio-Video Technology and Communications
Education/Training Requirements
47. Salary of wages given to an employee on a regular basis
Net pay
Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA)
Payroll
Values Compromise
48. (Occupational Outlook Handbook) A book used for researching the most common careers in the United States
Applicant
Interview
Tuition
OOH
49. Cluster that involves visual and performing arts; multimedia communications; journalism
Health Science
Arts Audio-Video Technology and Communications
Resource
Vendor
50. A thank you letter written following an interview
Time Management
Follow-up Letter
Time Management
Post-secondary education