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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. Undertaking or venture to make more with risk
Enterprise
Manufacturing
career cluster
Workforce diversity
2. A short written description of an applicant's personal data - education - and experience - related to a job
Job Shadowing
Resume
Decision
O*Net
3. 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
Agriculture Food and Natural Resources
Schedule
Career Interest Area
Laws of supply and demand
4. Continuing for a long period of time to accomplish a task
Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics
Persistent
Financial aid
Job Outlook
5. A thank you letter written following an interview
Transportation - Distribution - and Logistics
Aptitude
Services
Follow-up Letter
6. The combination of attitude - values - interests - and behaviors that identify a person
Personality
Laws of supply and demand
Post-secondary education
Transportation - Distribution - and Logistics
7. Natural method or way one thinks or learns
Learning Style
Goods
Career Action Plan
Professional
8. The environment of the workplace
Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA)
Employer
Ethnic
Working Conditions
9. A share of the ownership in a company
Resume
Skill
Loss
Stock
10. The way in which a person views their own self-worth
Career Ladder
Profit
Self-Concept
Goods
11. Arrange things in order from the most important to the least important
Applicant
Priortize
Economy
Enterprise
12. Cluster that involves protective and legal services
Corporation
Personality Trait
Learning Style
Law Public Safety and Security
13. A formal meeting between an employer and job applicant about a job opening
Employment Outlook
Interview
Wholesale
Employment Outlook
14. Someone who sells goods or services
Vendor
Manufacturing
Government and Public Administration
Career Goal
15. A wide variety of workers with different backgrounds - experiences - ideas - and skills in the workplace
Workforce diversity
Orientation
Ethnic
Law Public Safety and Security
16. A person applying for a job
Temporary Jobs
Architecture and Construction
Bachelor's degree
Applicant
17. Commoney known as Social Security
Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA)
Working Conditions
Business Management and Administration
Deduction
18. A decision or plan that can be changed
Temporary Jobs
Tentative Decision
Education/Training Requirements
Outsourcing
19. Personal standards by which one lives
Conflict
Values
Temporary Jobs
Vocational
20. An occupation one is well-suited or qualified for
Vocation
Law of Demand
Competition
Stock
21. Money earned above the cost of doing business
Skill
Sole Proprietorship
Profit
Screen out
22. 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
Partnership
Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics
Workforce diversity
Schedule
23. Cluster that involves developing - promoting - and providing goods to consumers; performing tasks for consumers
Persistent
Profit
Marketing Sales and Service
Business Plan
24. Cumulative time given to employees for personal or family illness with pay
Sick Leave
Seasonal Work
Letter of Application
Help-wanted ads
25. Business owned by one person
Job Description
Sole Proprietorship
Vocation
On-the-job training (OJT)
26. Average expected earnings from beginning to experienced pay
Hospitality and Tourism
Schedule
Attitude
Salary Range
27. Buying a finished good or service with the intent to resell it by the unit
Personality
Overtime
Retailing
Persistent
28. Notices that employers put in the classified section of the paper describing their job openings
Applicant
Personality
Bi-Weekly Pay
Help-wanted ads
29. An individual characterstic that helps one determine their personality
Work
Interest
Personality Trait
Technology
30. Someone who creates a good or service
Outsourcing
Resume
Commission
Producer
31. To give up something to resolve a conflict
Compromise
Discrimination
Plan
Self-Esteem
32. A person who will give a favorable report of a job applicant to the employer
Working Conditions
Reference
Qualification
Risk
33. Intangible work done for others as an occupation
Outsourcing
classifieds
Loss
Services
34. Collection of information about oneself
Retailing
Schedule
Career Portfolio
Law of Supply
35. The choice between two or more possibilities
Salary Range
Decision
Job Outlook
Professional
36. Earnings below the cost of doing business
Work
Work Environment
Loss
Stockholder
37. 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
Interview
Career Action Plan
Free Enterprise System
Schedule
38. Time an employee may take off work with pay
Annual Leave
Semi-monthly Pay
Self-Concept
Law of Supply
39. Earnings above base pay
Free Enterprise System
Tuition
Corporation
Overtime
40. Cluster that involves planning - organizing - and directing business operations
Business Management and Administration
Compromise
Education/Training Requirements
Conflict
41. To look at closely and judge
Internet
Education/Training Requirements
Architecture and Construction
Evaluate
42. A person applying for a job
Networking
Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA)
Applicant
Job Shadowing
43. (Occupational Outlook Handbook) A book used for researching the most common careers in the United States
Law of Demand
Job Outlook
Hospitality and Tourism
OOH
44. A computerized career information delivery system
Orientation
Specializing
Ethnic
ArkOscar
45. The course of action one decides to take at the end of the decision-making process
Apprenticeship
Employment Outlook
Plan
Enterprise
46. Part of the paycheck that shows earnings and deductions
Apprenticeship
Check Stub
Self-Concept
Union dues
47. A specialized scientific work in manufacturing and industry
Global Economy
Technical
Compromise
Career Interest Area
48. Being on time for work
Punctuality
Transportation - Distribution - and Logistics
Check Stub
Associate degree
49. A service business designed to help put employees and employers together
Values Compromise
Job Market
On-the-job training (OJT)
Employment Agency
50. The use of goods or service to make life easier creating new jobs while eliminating others
Fringe benefits
Stockholder
Technology
Brain Orientation