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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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1. A thank you letter written following an interview
Follow-up Letter
Learning Style
Transportation - Distribution - and Logistics
Temporary Jobs
2. The prospect for the future of a job or career
Work ethic
Employment Outlook
Temporary Jobs
Interest Inventory
3. Cluster that involves visual and performing arts; multimedia communications; journalism
Graduate school
Arts Audio-Video Technology and Communications
Vocational
Manufacturing
4. Cluster that involves coordinating the movement of people - goods - and services; career cluster - jobs or occupations grouped together because of similar knowledge or skills
Long-Term Goal
Specializing
Competition
Transportation - Distribution - and Logistics
5. A skill that has been developed
Values
Ability
Attitude
Elective
6. Jobs requiring less than 35-40 hours a week - depending on the employer
Government and Public Administration
Part-Time Jobs
Learning Style
Temporary Jobs
7. A certificate of completion awarded to a person after they successfully complete a required set of college courses in both general and specific areas - usually lasting 4 years
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8. Undertaking or venture to make more with risk
Arts Audio-Video Technology and Communications
Schedule
Enterprise
Prerequisite
9. Help-wanted section of the newspaper that lists job openings
Ethnic
classifieds
Compromise
Demographics
10. Receiving a paycheck every other Friday
Bi-Weekly Pay
Internship
Wholesale
Plan
11. A resource that involves communicating information with others
Laws of supply and demand
Networking
Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA)
Health Science
12. 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
Time Management
Agriculture Food and Natural Resources
Identity
Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics
13. The tool that employers use to find out basic information about job applicants
Procedure
Application form
Self-Esteem
Contract Labor
14. A person who owns stock in a company
Scholarships
O*Net
Stockholder
Bachelor's degree
15. Arrange things in order from the most important to the least important
Semi-monthly Pay
Priortize
Bachelor's degree
Co-worker
16. The fee that colleges charge to take their classes
Working Conditions
Union
Tuition
Agriculture Food and Natural Resources
17. To look at closely and judge
Employer
Evaluate
Economy
Letter of Application
18. Standard minimum pay received by an employee
Manufacturing
Seasonal Work
Base Pay
ArkOscar
19. An objective that a person wants to obtain and works to achieve
Job Shadowing
Finance
Architecture and Construction
Goal
20. The prospect for the future of a job or career
Employment Outlook
Risk
Deduction
Economy
21. A course that is not required but can be chosen by a student according to their interests
Agriculture Food and Natural Resources
Entrepreneur
Financial aid
Elective
22. Methods of paying for education/training - such as grants - scholarships - etc.
Decision-Making Process
Financial aid
Enterprise
Vocational
23. A service business designed to help put employees and employers together
Employment Agency
Job Market
Vocation
Resource
24. A personal evaluation to help you make decisions
Assessment
Annual Leave
Temporary Jobs
Semi-monthly Pay
25. A plan which includes the education and training requirements to reach a career goal
Personality Type
Prerequisite
Career Action Plan
Screen out
26. Characteristics or make-up of a population
Study Skills
Demographics
Letter of Application
Workforce diversity
27. Economic rules which influence consumer buying decisions
Stockholder
Producer
Government and Public Administration
Laws of supply and demand
28. Careful use of resources including money and materials
Risk
Workforce diversity
Economy
Employment Agency
29. Treating someone unfairly because of his or her race - religion - or sex
Agriculture Food and Natural Resources
Temporary Jobs
Discrimination
Workforce diversity
30. Pay that is based upon the percentage of sales
Ability
Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA)
Partnership
Commission
31. Cluster that involves acquiring - investing - and managing money
Aptitude
Gross pay
Co-worker
Finance
32. Personal standards by which one lives
Decision
Vocational
Values
Schedule
33. Earnings above base pay
Law of Supply
Values
Overtime
Specializing
34. 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
Career
Law of Demand
Free Enterprise System
Applicant
35. Work that a person does for pay
Temporary Jobs
Job
Career
Stockholder
36. Natural method or way one thinks or learns
Working Conditions
Learning Style
Work
Job Description
37. A service business designed to help put employees and employers together
Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA)
Employment Agency
Personality Type
Networking
38. An occupation one is well-suited or qualified for
Technical
Vocation
Punctuality
Professional
39. Personal standards by which one lives
Values
Procrastinator
Post-secondary education
Education and Training
40. An individual characterstic that helps one determine their personality
Career Portfolio
Study Skills
Short-Term Goal
Personality Trait
41. Intangible work done for others as an occupation
Priortize
Services
Finance
Temporary Jobs
42. The ability to perform a certain activity well
Outsourcing
Skill
Demographics
Services
43. A document stating that a person has passed a five-part test in the areas of writing - social studies - science - reading - and math
Post-secondary education
Entrepreneur
GED certificate
Values Compromise
44. Rules of behavior in the workplace
Work ethic
Bachelor's degree
Annual Leave
Job Outlook
45. To make a plan or arrange things that must be done
Sole Proprietorship
Schedule
Internship
Career Ladder
46. The person who has hires someone to do a job
Internet
Entrepreneur
Employer
Marketing Sales and Service
47. An amount of money charged by others for services
Job Duty
Fee
Resume
Government and Public Administration
48. The tool that employers use to find out basic information about job applicants
Entrepreneur
Interview
Hospitality and Tourism
Application form
49. Doing a job without pay to gain experience
Volunteering
Economy
Decision
Transportation - Distribution - and Logistics
50. Cluster that involves regulating and managing local - state - and federal government
Schedule
Identity
classifieds
Government and Public Administration