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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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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. A thank you letter written following an interview
Business Management and Administration
Punctuality
Goal
Follow-up Letter
2. A wide variety of workers with different backgrounds - experiences - ideas - and skills in the workplace
Workforce diversity
Health Science
Values Compromise
Occupation
3. To make a plan or arrange things that must be done
Enterprise
Business Plan
Schedule
Priortize
4. The combination of attitude - values - interests - and behaviors that identify a person
Hospitality and Tourism
Risk
Interest Inventory
Personality
5. An occupation one is well-suited or qualified for
Temporary Jobs
Tentative Decision
Vocation
Global Economy
6. To eliminate unwanted applicants
Deduction
Procedure
Producer
Screen out
7. Cluster that involves designing - building - and repairing structures
Sole Proprietorship
Stock
Screen out
Architecture and Construction
8. Part of the paycheck that shows earnings and deductions
Stockholder
Check Stub
Partnership
Part-Time Jobs
9. Using People in Mexico to assemble parts; utilizing external resources
Procrastinator
Values
Outsourcing
Gross pay
10. As the price increases producers produce more
Finance
Competition
Outsourcing
Law of Supply
11. Following a person on the job to learn job duties and responsibilities
Schedule
Long-Term Goal
Job Shadowing
Bi-Weekly Pay
12. Standard minimum pay received by an employee
Salary Range
Stock
Base Pay
Conflict
13. Buying a finished good or service with the intent to resell it by the unit
Agriculture Food and Natural Resources
Retailing
Occupation
Letter of Application
14. Someone who purchases a good or service with the intent to use it
Education/Training Requirements
Work
Consumer
Ethnic
15. The work done over a period of years in one area of interest
Career
Associate degree
classifieds
Sole Proprietorship
16. To buy in bulk form wi the intent to resell by the case
Wholesale
Career
Short-Term Goal
Global Economy
17. One who puts off doing things or making decisions
Procrastinator
Services
Technical
Long-Term Goal
18. Acquaint or become familiar with a new situation
Aptitude
Temporary Jobs
Orientation
Hospitality and Tourism
19. Clash of ideas or values
Orientation
Salary
Orientation
Conflict
20. To employ oneself in a particular or specific field of work
Specializing
Personality Trait
Compromise
Outsourcing
21. Methods of paying for education/training - such as grants - scholarships - etc.
Networking
Financial aid
Profit
Job Description
22. Personal standards by which one lives
Values Compromise
Associate degree
Deduction
Values
23. Pay that is based upon the percentage of sales
Work Values
Commission
Law of Supply
Risk
24. Collection of information about oneself
Work ethic
Tentative Decision
Career Portfolio
Decision-Making Process
25. An objective that a person wants to obtain and works to achieve
Finance
Goal
Demographics
Union dues
26. The use of goods or service to make life easier creating new jobs while eliminating others
Workforce diversity
Listening Skills
Career Ladder
Technology
27. Cluster that involves planning - organizing - and directing business operations
Career
Stock
Business Management and Administration
Scholarships
28. Something a person wants to acheive later in life requiring much planning
Values
Net pay
Job Description
Long-Term Goal
29. Natural method or way one thinks or learns
Business Management and Administration
Listening Skills
Skill
Learning Style
30. A person who works with you
Enterprise
Co-worker
Apprenticeship
Corporation
31. A description of the goals of a business and how it will operate
Working Conditions
Related Occupations
Business Plan
career cluster
32. Cluster that involves designing and producing materials into intermediate or final products
Post-secondary education
Union dues
Year-to-date earnings
Manufacturing
33. A person who organizes - manages - and assumes the risk of a business
Qualification
Entrepreneur
Short-Term Goal
Salary
34. The steps one takes to make the best decision
Demographics
Decision-Making Process
Qualification
Resume
35. The need for workers in a particular occupation or field
Loss
Semi-monthly Pay
Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics
Job Market
36. A plan which includes the education and training requirements to reach a career goal
Career Action Plan
Manufacturing
Entry-Level Jobs
Part-Time Jobs
37. The ability or potential for learning new skills
Aptitude
Outsourcing
Deduction
Scholarships
38. Average expected earnings from beginning to experienced pay
Salary Range
Education/Training Requirements
Volunteering
Tentative Decision
39. A decision or plan that can be changed
Employment Outlook
classifieds
Tentative Decision
Credit
40. Part of the paycheck that shows earnings and deductions
Check Stub
career cluster
Career Portfolio
Marketing Sales and Service
41. Commoney known as Social Security
Sole Proprietorship
Free Enterprise System
Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA)
Procrastinator
42. Business owned by many people but treated by the law as though it were one person
Application form
Job
Corporation
Lifestyle
43. Focusing or concentrating in a particular skill
Annual Leave
Ethnic
Help-wanted ads
Specializing
44. Way in which one uses or utilitizes the brain best
Aptitude
Technical
Brain Orientation
Information Technology
45. Jobs with similiar work actvities
Career Interest Area
Employment Agency
Commission
Law of Supply
46. Doing a job without pay to gain experience
Global Economy
Graduate school
Volunteering
Interest
47. Personal standards by which one lives
Job
Job
Values
Job lead
48. Salary of wages given to an employee on a regular basis
Career
Job Market
Demographics
Payroll
49. Anything a person has or uses to reach a goal
Evaluate
Follow-up Letter
Resource
Deduction
50. Business which two or more people own and operate
Study Skills
classifieds
Government and Public Administration
Partnership