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Career Orientation Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Amount of money taken from an employee's gross pay for taxes - insurance - social security - and other benefits
Deduction
Orientation
Study Skills
Lifestyle
2. A group of characteristics that collective form a general group of people with similiar interests - values - and behaviors
Assessment
Qualification
Career Interest Area
Personality Type
3. The surrounding physical conditions of a workplace
Work Environment
Help-wanted ads
Internet
Application form
4. A group of workers who collectively bargin for higher wages - improved benefits - and better working conditions
Overtime
Base Pay
Union
Outsourcing
5. The surrounding physical conditions of a workplace
Workforce diversity
Partnership
Work ethic
Work Environment
6. Way in which one uses or utilitizes the brain best
Personnel
Wage
Work Environment
Brain Orientation
7. Earnings above base pay
Overtime
Fee
Job
Job Outlook
8. Undertaking or venture to make more with risk
Discrimination
Enterprise
Tentative Decision
Commission
9. A formal meeting between an employer and job applicant about a job opening
Entry-Level Jobs
Interview
Plan
Work Values
10. A service business designed to help put employees and employers together
Professional
Competition
Employment Agency
Architecture and Construction
11. Cluster that involves acquiring - investing - and managing money
Aptitude
Finance
Resource
career cluster
12. The steps one takes to make the best decision
Self-Concept
Career Portfolio
Decision-Making Process
Education/Training Requirements
13. The work done over a period of years in one area of interest
Education/Training Requirements
Elective
Career
Health Science
14. A plan which includes the education and training requirements to reach a career goal
Career Action Plan
Identity
Education/Training Requirements
Punctuality
15. One who puts off doing things or making decisions
Procrastinator
Interview
Seasonal Work
Economy
16. The total amount of an employee's earnings before deductions are taken out
Gross pay
Free Enterprise System
career cluster
career cluster
17. To eliminate unwanted applicants
Persistent
Decision
Screen out
Time Management
18. Careful use of resources including money and materials
Full-Time Job
Commission
Economy
Job Market
19. A temporary paid or unpaid position that involves direct work experience in a career field
Resource
Learning Style
Internship
Ethnic
20. The use of goods or service to make life easier creating new jobs while eliminating others
Net pay
Volunteering
Technical
Technology
21. Business owned by many people but treated by the law as though it were one person
Consumer
Wage
Corporation
Salary
22. Cluster that involves designing and producing materials into intermediate or final products
Elective
Specializing
Research
Manufacturing
23. Any information about possible job openings
Vocational
Competition
Manufacturing
Job lead
24. Temporary work during the summer
Check Stub
Transportation - Distribution - and Logistics
Short-Term Goal
Seasonal Work
25. The course of action one decides to take at the end of the decision-making process
Temporary Jobs
Wage
Plan
Manufacturing
26. Earnings below the cost of doing business
Annual Leave
Law of Demand
Arts Audio-Video Technology and Communications
Loss
27. A productive activity resulting in something useful
Architecture and Construction
Work
Applicant
Goal
28. Following a person on the job to learn job duties and responsibilities
Check Stub
Scholarships
Job Shadowing
Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics
29. A share of the ownership in a company
Entrepreneur
Stock
Financial aid
Schedule
30. Buying a finished good or service with the intent to resell it by the unit
Bi-Weekly Pay
Retailing
Credit
Long-Term Goal
31. A person who organizes - manages - and assumes the risk of a business
Entrepreneur
Internet
Business Plan
Internet
32. Generally 40 Hour work week or more
Attitude
Full-Time Job
Education and Training
Temporary Jobs
33. Cluster that involves computer and Web-based services; telecommunications services
Vocational
Sick Leave
Temporary Jobs
Information Technology
34. The need for workers in a particular occupation or field
OOH
Self-Concept
Job Market
Assessment
35. Earnings paid twice a month on designated dates
Semi-monthly Pay
Commission
Full-Time Job
Fringe benefits
36. Jobs requiring less than 35-40 hours a week - depending on the employer
Part-Time Jobs
Payroll
Financial aid
Seasonal Work
37. The environment of the workplace
Personnel
Personality Trait
Help-wanted ads
Working Conditions
38. Someone who purchases a good or service with the intent to use it
Time Management
Consumer
Financial aid
Sick Leave
39. Arrange things in order from the most important to the least important
GED certificate
Priortize
Decision
Competition
40. Payment for work - usually figured by the hour
Career Goal
Wage
Vocation
Job Market
41. A long term work plan including education - training - and experience
Career Goal
Reference
Technical
Self-Esteem
42. To give up something to resolve a conflict
Follow-up Letter
Sole Proprietorship
Compromise
Wage
43. A computerized career information delivery system
Associate degree
Research
ArkOscar
Stockholder
44. The jobs that beginners start with to train them for higher-level jobs
career cluster
Entry-Level Jobs
Brain Orientation
Technology
45. A person who works with you
Partnership
Co-worker
Discrimination
Resume
46. Someone who sells goods or services
Vendor
Personnel
Annual Leave
Seasonal Work
47. Business owned by one person
Personality
Sole Proprietorship
Lifestyle
Wholesale
48. The combination of attitude - values - interests - and behaviors that identify a person
Values Compromise
Base Pay
Entrepreneur
Personality
49. An amount of money charged by others for services
Learning Style
Decision
Fee
Personality Type
50. To look at closely and judge
Brain Orientation
Government and Public Administration
Associate degree
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