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Career Orientation Basics
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literacy
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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. Occupational Information Network compiled by the United States Department of Labor
O*Net
Decision
Payroll
Self-Esteem
2. Cluster that involves visual and performing arts; multimedia communications; journalism
On-the-job training (OJT)
Finance
Research
Arts Audio-Video Technology and Communications
3. Agreement to complete a job for an amount of money
Occupation
Transportation - Distribution - and Logistics
Marketing Sales and Service
Contract Labor
4. Jobs with similiar work actvities
Career Interest Area
Job Duty
Wholesale
Professional
5. Generally 40 Hour work week or more
Government and Public Administration
Full-Time Job
Work Values
Retailing
6. The prospect for the future of a job or career
Laws of supply and demand
Law Public Safety and Security
Employment Agency
Employment Outlook
7. Typical way of life
Screen out
Lifestyle
Work Environment
Union
8. Cluster that involves computer and Web-based services; telecommunications services
Research
Information Technology
Resume
Consumer
9. Undertaking or venture to make more with risk
Post-secondary education
Consumer
Aptitude
Enterprise
10. A description of the goals of a business and how it will operate
Retailing
Business Plan
Sick Leave
GED certificate
11. Cluster that involves developing - promoting - and providing goods to consumers; performing tasks for consumers
Ethnic
career cluster
Marketing Sales and Service
Fringe benefits
12. A productive activity resulting in something useful
Work
Bi-Weekly Pay
Sick Leave
Aptitude
13. Cluster that involves regulating and managing local - state - and federal government
Decision-Making Process
Government and Public Administration
Sick Leave
Finance
14. To employ oneself in a particular or specific field of work
Punctuality
Ability
Specializing
Scholarships
15. 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
Reference
Job Outlook
OOH
16. Help-wanted section of the newspaper that lists job openings
classifieds
Resource
Evaluate
Check Stub
17. Business owned by many people but treated by the law as though it were one person
Bachelor's degree
Corporation
Elective
Payroll
18. Occupational Information Network compiled by the United States Department of Labor
O*Net
Sole Proprietorship
Values
Job Shadowing
19. Something one wants to obtain in the near future generally less than 5 years
Laws of supply and demand
Short-Term Goal
Post-secondary education
Qualification
20. A thank you letter written following an interview
Information Technology
Follow-up Letter
Base Pay
Full-Time Job
21. Relating to races or groups of people with common customs
Business Management and Administration
Resource
Volunteering
Ethnic
22. Units of measurement which schools use to determine whether or not students are progressing toward graduation
Procedure
Credit
Personality Type
Career Interest Area
23. A person who organizes - manages - and assumes the risk of a business
Entrepreneur
Salary Range
Transportation - Distribution - and Logistics
Reference
24. A person who will give a favorable report of a job applicant to the employer
Reference
Career
Resource
Career Goal
25. When a person has to give up part of something they value to resolve a conflict
Overtime
Plan
Enterprise
Values Compromise
26. Using People in Mexico to assemble parts; utilizing external resources
Conflict
Outsourcing
Employer
Orientation
27. When two or more companies rival for consumer dollars
Temporary Jobs
Elective
Competition
Personality Trait
28. Jobs requiring less than 35-40 hours a week - depending on the employer
Part-Time Jobs
Professional
Vocational
Global Economy
29. The surrounding physical conditions of a workplace
Long-Term Goal
Deduction
Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA)
Work Environment
30. A group of employees
Personnel
Sole Proprietorship
Temporary Jobs
Salary
31. A group of workers who collectively bargin for higher wages - improved benefits - and better working conditions
Union
Priortize
Health Science
Demographics
32. A program of study beyond a bachelor's degree
Technology
Marketing Sales and Service
Payroll
Graduate school
33. Cluster that involves planning - organizing - and directing business operations
Identity
Business Management and Administration
Self-Esteem
Listening Skills
34. Receiving a paycheck every other Friday
Bi-Weekly Pay
Bachelor's degree
Learning Style
Fringe benefits
35. Cluster that involves computer and Web-based services; telecommunications services
Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics
Volunteering
Information Technology
Networking
36. Jobs or occupations grouped together because of similar knowledge or skills
Brain Orientation
career cluster
Salary Range
Priortize
37. A skill that has been developed
Ability
Salary
Deduction
Information Technology
38. To make a plan or arrange things that must be done
Schedule
career cluster
Career Action Plan
Help-wanted ads
39. A belief - understanding - and recognition of one's own abilities
Interest Inventory
Self-Esteem
Career Goal
Personality Trait
40. Cluster that involves services that improve people's quality of life and promote safe - healthy communities
Decision
Corporation
Human Services
Entry-Level Jobs
41. An introductory letter written to a prospective employer
Temporary Jobs
Wholesale
Contract Labor
Letter of Application
42. The thing a person enjoys doing or thinking about
Letter of Application
Interest
Professional
Law of Demand
43. Business which two or more people own and operate
Values
Partnership
Job lead
Attitude
44. 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
OOH
Overtime
Working Conditions
45. A formal meeting between an employer and job applicant about a job opening
Identity
Priortize
Interview
Associate degree
46. A skill that has been developed
Ability
Identity
Conflict
Vendor
47. An amount of money charged by others for services
Competition
Business Management and Administration
Seasonal Work
Fee
48. The person who has hires someone to do a job
Producer
Vocational
Fringe benefits
Employer
49. Cluster that involves services involving lodging - entertainment - recreation - and travel; food and beverage management
Payroll
Hospitality and Tourism
Overtime
Personnel
50. Being on time for work
Net pay
Punctuality
Personnel
Competition