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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.
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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. Someone who sells goods or services
Personality
Fringe benefits
Vendor
Competition
2. Fixed amount of money earned - regardless of hours worked; pay that is calculated exactly the same for every check
Salary
Fringe benefits
Internet
Commission
3. Money earned above the cost of doing business
Study Skills
Profit
Plan
Annual Leave
4. Part of the paycheck that shows earnings and deductions
Reference
Finance
Check Stub
Assessment
5. The surrounding physical conditions of a workplace
Study Skills
Enterprise
Bi-Weekly Pay
Work Environment
6. The computer network system through which information can be shared on the World Wide Web
Discrimination
Internet
Sick Leave
Working Conditions
7. The way in which a person views their own self-worth
Self-Concept
Time Management
Specializing
Contract Labor
8. A decision or plan that can be changed
Values Compromise
Tentative Decision
Manufacturing
Time Management
9. A thank you letter written following an interview
Resource
Follow-up Letter
Personality
Internship
10. Generally 40 Hour work week or more
Demographics
Career Action Plan
Full-Time Job
Application form
11. Cluster that involves acquiring - investing - and managing money
Career Goal
Finance
Personality Type
Job Duty
12. When a person has to give up part of something they value to resolve a conflict
Values Compromise
Services
Brain Orientation
Technology
13. A group of workers who collectively bargin for higher wages - improved benefits - and better working conditions
Sole Proprietorship
Assessment
Post-secondary education
Union
14. Cluster that involves protective and legal services
Seasonal Work
Law Public Safety and Security
Technical
Job lead
15. Fixed amount of money earned - regardless of hours worked; pay that is calculated exactly the same for every check
Persistent
Plan
Professional
Salary
16. Doing a job without pay to gain experience
Career Interest Area
Volunteering
Identity
Transportation - Distribution - and Logistics
17. A program of study beyond a bachelor's degree
Schedule
Graduate school
Apprenticeship
Specializing
18. Cluster that involves acquiring - investing - and managing money
Loss
Help-wanted ads
Finance
Base Pay
19. The total amount of an employee's earnings before deductions are taken out
Gross pay
Union dues
Procrastinator
Human Services
20. The steps one takes to make the best decision
Global Economy
Reference
Decision-Making Process
career cluster
21. Cluster that involves the science of maintaining and improving people's physical and mental well-being
Sick Leave
Punctuality
Salary Range
Health Science
22. Natural method or way one thinks or learns
Information Technology
Overtime
Learning Style
On-the-job training (OJT)
23. Rules of behavior in the workplace
Government and Public Administration
Work ethic
Resume
Outsourcing
24. As the prices decreases producers purchase more
Brain Orientation
Attitude
Temporary Jobs
Law of Demand
25. A belief - understanding - and recognition of one's own abilities
Discrimination
Related Occupations
Services
Self-Esteem
26. The steps one takes to make the best decision
classifieds
Self-Esteem
Risk
Decision-Making Process
27. To make a plan or arrange things that must be done
Ethnic
Wage
Schedule
Partnership
28. Being on time for work
Personality Type
Punctuality
Attitude
Brain Orientation
29. (Occupational Outlook Handbook) A book used for researching the most common careers in the United States
Vocation
Goods
OOH
Loss
30. A special skill - knowledge - or ability that enables a person to perform a particular job
Wage
Prerequisite
Screen out
Qualification
31. Cluster that involves visual and performing arts; multimedia communications; journalism
Career Interest Area
Arts Audio-Video Technology and Communications
Competition
Interview
32. The use of goods or service to make life easier creating new jobs while eliminating others
Technology
Interview
Self-Concept
Time Management
33. Pay that is based upon the percentage of sales
Contract Labor
Payroll
Study Skills
Commission
34. Any information about possible job openings
Job lead
Gross pay
Union dues
Work
35. Treating someone unfairly because of his or her race - religion - or sex
Reference
Discrimination
Interest
Commission
36. A program where a person learns to do a certain job by working with a skilled worker
Application form
Services
Corporation
Apprenticeship
37. A temporary paid or unpaid position that involves direct work experience in a career field
Internship
Wage
Attitude
Goods
38. The planning and using of time
Time Management
Persistent
Personality
Commission
39. Focusing or concentrating in a particular skill
Seasonal Work
ArkOscar
Specializing
Decision
40. Focusing or concentrating in a particular skill
Decision-Making Process
Technology
Specializing
Applicant
41. Jobs or careers belonging to the same group on the basis of similar knowledge and skills
Related Occupations
Job
Short-Term Goal
Orientation
42. A course that is not required but can be chosen by a student according to their interests
career cluster
Elective
Reference
Screen out
43. Payment for work - usually figured by the hour
Competition
Information Technology
Salary Range
Wage
44. Worldwide financial management system
Global Economy
Job Shadowing
Working Conditions
Temporary Jobs
45. A person's outlook on life - usually positive or negative
Semi-monthly Pay
Salary
Attitude
Overtime
46. Someone who sells goods or services
Vendor
Technology
Employment Outlook
Work
47. The surrounding physical conditions of a workplace
Producer
Work Environment
Interest
Job Outlook
48. Determining the best way for an individual to study - remember - or learn
Personnel
Attitude
Study Skills
Retailing
49. Treating someone unfairly because of his or her race - religion - or sex
Payroll
Health Science
Laws of supply and demand
Discrimination
50. A person who organizes - manages - and assumes the risk of a business
Entrepreneur
Consumer
Reference
Apprenticeship