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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.
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. Time an employee may take off work with pay
Entrepreneur
Annual Leave
Interest
Wholesale
2. To buy in bulk form wi the intent to resell by the case
Deduction
Wholesale
Resource
Sole Proprietorship
3. To make a plan or arrange things that must be done
Schedule
Employment Outlook
Learning Style
Occupation
4. Commoney known as Social Security
Career Ladder
Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA)
Graduate school
Short-Term Goal
5. A plan which includes the education and training requirements to reach a career goal
Demographics
Career Action Plan
Values
Free Enterprise System
6. Clash of ideas or values
Conflict
Work Values
Services
Workforce diversity
7. Average expected earnings from beginning to experienced pay
Outsourcing
Work
Attitude
Salary Range
8. Someone who creates a good or service
Decision-Making Process
Ethnic
Producer
Services
9. A course that is required before another course can be taken
Internship
Prerequisite
Brain Orientation
Net pay
10. The ability to perform a certain activity well
Attitude
Demographics
Plan
Skill
11. Fixed amount of money earned - regardless of hours worked; pay that is calculated exactly the same for every check
Health Science
Salary
Graduate school
Corporation
12. A wide variety of workers with different backgrounds - experiences - ideas - and skills in the workplace
Stockholder
Prerequisite
Workforce diversity
Law Public Safety and Security
13. A thank you letter written following an interview
Follow-up Letter
Aptitude
Career Ladder
Credit
14. The work done over a period of years in one area of interest
Career
Discrimination
Contract Labor
Compromise
15. Acquaint or become familiar with a new situation
Tuition
Stock
Career Portfolio
Orientation
16. A group of characteristics that collective form a general group of people with similiar interests - values - and behaviors
Personality Type
ArkOscar
Services
Deduction
17. Earnings below the cost of doing business
Loss
Attitude
Identity
Punctuality
18. Someone who creates a good or service
Full-Time Job
Global Economy
Career Ladder
Producer
19. Cluster that involves designing - building - and repairing structures
Education and Training
Architecture and Construction
Career Portfolio
Laws of supply and demand
20. A productive activity resulting in something useful
Aptitude
Work
Applicant
Sick Leave
21. Intangible work done for others as an occupation
Ethnic
Manufacturing
Specializing
Services
22. Following a person on the job to learn job duties and responsibilities
Human Services
Job Shadowing
Net pay
Personality
23. Cluster that involves computer and Web-based services; telecommunications services
Stock
Graduate school
Apprenticeship
Information Technology
24. A person who organizes - manages - and assumes the risk of a business
Entrepreneur
Salary Range
Assessment
Research
25. Jobs with similiar work actvities
Business Plan
Career Interest Area
Annual Leave
Short-Term Goal
26. Business owned by one person
Law of Supply
Sole Proprietorship
On-the-job training (OJT)
Salary
27. Cluster that involves services involving lodging - entertainment - recreation - and travel; food and beverage management
Hospitality and Tourism
Goal
Ability
Seasonal Work
28. Fees charged by an organization to unite employees
Union dues
Employment Agency
Architecture and Construction
Full-Time Job
29. The total amount of an employee's earnings before deductions are taken out
Co-worker
Gross pay
Career Ladder
Information Technology
30. Jobs or careers belonging to the same group on the basis of similar knowledge and skills
Related Occupations
Enterprise
Bi-Weekly Pay
Corporation
31. A decision or plan that can be changed
Tentative Decision
Identity
Volunteering
Self-Esteem
32. 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
Identity
Contract Labor
Agriculture Food and Natural Resources
Employer
33. Help-wanted section of the newspaper that lists job openings
classifieds
Employment Agency
Laws of supply and demand
Screen out
34. The combination of attitude - values - interests - and behaviors that identify a person
Job Description
Ability
Personality
Business Management and Administration
35. Salary of wages given to an employee on a regular basis
Business Management and Administration
Finance
Payroll
Net pay
36. The tool that employers use to find out basic information about job applicants
Marketing Sales and Service
Application form
Sick Leave
Associate degree
37. A certificate of completion awarded to a person after completing a program of study in a particular area - usually lasting 2 years
Study Skills
Discrimination
Personality
Associate degree
38. Any information about possible job openings
Job lead
Long-Term Goal
Procrastinator
Aptitude
39. Someone who sells goods or services
Employer
Vendor
Self-Esteem
Time Management
40. 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
Economy
Free Enterprise System
Reference
Wholesale
41. A resource that involves communicating information with others
Loss
Letter of Application
Networking
Learning Style
42. Earnings above base pay
Career Action Plan
Laws of supply and demand
Overtime
Follow-up Letter
43. Agreement to complete a job for an amount of money
GED certificate
Qualification
Contract Labor
Goods
44. Methods of paying for education/training - such as grants - scholarships - etc.
Ability
Outsourcing
Career Interest Area
Financial aid
45. Continuing for a long period of time to accomplish a task
Persistent
Career Ladder
Resume
Workforce diversity
46. Collection of information about oneself
Networking
Career Portfolio
Check Stub
Overtime
47. Using People in Mexico to assemble parts; utilizing external resources
Short-Term Goal
Wholesale
Outsourcing
Employment Outlook
48. An objective that a person wants to obtain and works to achieve
Goal
Personality Type
Credit
ArkOscar
49. An introductory letter written to a prospective employer
Semi-monthly Pay
Human Services
Letter of Application
Finance
50. Determining the best way for an individual to study - remember - or learn
career cluster
Self-Esteem
Temporary Jobs
Study Skills