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Career Orientation Basics
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Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
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. An introductory letter written to a prospective employer
Letter of Application
Wholesale
Reference
Free Enterprise System
2. Using People in Mexico to assemble parts; utilizing external resources
Wholesale
Outsourcing
Long-Term Goal
Partnership
3. Cluster that involves coordinating the movement of people - goods - and services; career cluster - jobs or occupations grouped together because of similar knowledge or skills
Personality
Transportation - Distribution - and Logistics
Deduction
Priortize
4. As the prices decreases producers purchase more
Risk
ArkOscar
Law of Demand
Outsourcing
5. Collection of information about oneself
Work Values
career cluster
Career Ladder
Career Portfolio
6. Way in which one uses or utilitizes the brain best
Workforce diversity
Brain Orientation
Research
Government and Public Administration
7. A course or program that teaches job skills
Scholarships
Vocational
Qualification
Health Science
8. Relating to races or groups of people with common customs
Credit
Information Technology
Laws of supply and demand
Ethnic
9. The need for workers in a particular occupation or field
Bachelor's degree
Job Market
Profit
Hospitality and Tourism
10. Generally 40 Hour work week or more
Specializing
Professional
Full-Time Job
Goal
11. Standard minimum pay received by an employee
Professional
Base Pay
Professional
Ethnic
12. Anything a person has or uses to reach a goal
Goal
Resource
Interest Inventory
Job lead
13. The steps one takes to make the best decision
Wage
Business Management and Administration
Decision-Making Process
Tuition
14. The thing a person enjoys doing or thinking about
Interest
Work Values
Stock
career cluster
15. The total amount of an employee's earnings before deductions are taken out
Corporation
Financial aid
Risk
Gross pay
16. Way in which one uses or utilitizes the brain best
Prerequisite
Discrimination
Values
Brain Orientation
17. The type of job in which a person is employed
Bachelor's degree
Procedure
Credit
Occupation
18. The use of goods or service to make life easier creating new jobs while eliminating others
Career Interest Area
Job Market
Technology
Semi-monthly Pay
19. Arrange things in order from the most important to the least important
Plan
Priortize
Resource
Career Action Plan
20. A person's outlook on life - usually positive or negative
Values Compromise
Short-Term Goal
Education and Training
Attitude
21. Cluster that involves the science of maintaining and improving people's physical and mental well-being
Job Outlook
Health Science
Evaluate
Follow-up Letter
22. To buy in bulk form wi the intent to resell by the case
Persistent
Bi-Weekly Pay
Interest Inventory
Wholesale
23. The planning and using of time
Full-Time Job
Time Management
Economy
Volunteering
24. A group of workers who collectively bargin for higher wages - improved benefits - and better working conditions
Letter of Application
Volunteering
Agriculture Food and Natural Resources
Union
25. Receiving a paycheck every other Friday
Work Environment
Resume
Bi-Weekly Pay
Self-Concept
26. A program of study beyond a bachelor's degree
Gross pay
Decision
ArkOscar
Graduate school
27. Money received for education that does not have to be repaid
Scholarships
Associate degree
Interview
Stockholder
28. The amount of a paycheck after the deductions are taken out
Business Plan
Net pay
Year-to-date earnings
Consumer
29. Cluster that involves services that improve people's quality of life and promote safe - healthy communities
Decision-Making Process
Corporation
Human Services
Business Management and Administration
30. Treating someone unfairly because of his or her race - religion - or sex
Study Skills
Base Pay
Resume
Discrimination
31. Commoney known as Social Security
Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA)
Discrimination
Graduate school
Work Environment
32. Jobs with similiar work actvities
Career Interest Area
Job Duty
Vocation
Screen out
33. To look at closely and judge
Manufacturing
Agriculture Food and Natural Resources
Salary
Evaluate
34. Continuing for a long period of time to accomplish a task
Competition
O*Net
Persistent
Producer
35. Agreement to complete a job for an amount of money
Contract Labor
Evaluate
Full-Time Job
Seasonal Work
36. A formal meeting between an employer and job applicant about a job opening
Listening Skills
Follow-up Letter
Assessment
Interview
37. Occupational Information Network compiled by the United States Department of Labor
Producer
O*Net
Conflict
Work ethic
38. Temporary work during the summer
Seasonal Work
Long-Term Goal
Economy
Values Compromise
39. A person who owns stock in a company
Stockholder
Agriculture Food and Natural Resources
Bachelor's degree
Competition
40. A document stating that a person has passed a five-part test in the areas of writing - social studies - science - reading - and math
Specializing
Entrepreneur
Networking
GED certificate
41. When two or more companies rival for consumer dollars
Work Values
Competition
Corporation
Qualification
42. A service business designed to help put employees and employers together
Career Goal
Semi-monthly Pay
Architecture and Construction
Employment Agency
43. Cluster that involves regulating and managing local - state - and federal government
Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics
Goal
Job Outlook
Government and Public Administration
44. Payment for work - usually figured by the hour
Decision
Wage
Partnership
Volunteering
45. To employ oneself in a particular or specific field of work
Specializing
Brain Orientation
Finance
Career Interest Area
46. Cluster that involves designing - building - and repairing structures
Working Conditions
Architecture and Construction
Career Goal
Brain Orientation
47. 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
Aptitude
Job
Networking
Free Enterprise System
48. A long term work plan including education - training - and experience
Procedure
Scholarships
Specializing
Career Goal
49. Clash of ideas or values
Conflict
Agriculture Food and Natural Resources
Decision-Making Process
Interest
50. The person who has hires someone to do a job
Employer
Sole Proprietorship
Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics
Interest Inventory