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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. Cluster that involves providing education and training services; providing support services
Health Science
Education and Training
GED certificate
Conflict
2. Continuing for a long period of time to accomplish a task
Letter of Application
Commission
Stockholder
Persistent
3. Cluster that involves regulating and managing local - state - and federal government
Employment Outlook
Work
Government and Public Administration
Co-worker
4. Possibility of loss
Internship
Risk
Values
Internship
5. Jobs or careers belonging to the same group on the basis of similar knowledge and skills
On-the-job training (OJT)
Union
Related Occupations
Brain Orientation
6. The steps one takes to make the best decision
Decision-Making Process
Corporation
Career Ladder
Help-wanted ads
7. A person's outlook on life - usually positive or negative
ArkOscar
Temporary Jobs
Attitude
Corporation
8. Part of the paycheck that shows earnings and deductions
Listening Skills
Employer
Job
Check Stub
9. Commoney known as Social Security
Agriculture Food and Natural Resources
Job Shadowing
Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA)
Loss
10. Careful use of resources including money and materials
Profit
Economy
Work Values
Plan
11. The need for workers in a particular occupation or field
Associate degree
Career
Base Pay
Job Market
12. The future prospects for employment in a particular job or field
Payroll
Bachelor's degree
Job Outlook
Workforce diversity
13. Rules of behavior in the workplace
Decision
Union dues
Work ethic
Self-Esteem
14. Cluster that involves designing and producing materials into intermediate or final products
Manufacturing
Resume
Tentative Decision
Job Outlook
15. A formal meeting between an employer and job applicant about a job opening
Specializing
Compromise
Consumer
Interview
16. Any education or training following high school
Personality
Vocational
Employment Agency
Post-secondary education
17. 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
Assessment
Personality Trait
Finance
Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics
18. Earnings below the cost of doing business
Loss
Architecture and Construction
Career Action Plan
Fee
19. An individual characterstic that helps one determine their personality
Laws of supply and demand
Personality Trait
Profit
Competition
20. A decision or plan that can be changed
Semi-monthly Pay
Job Market
Tentative Decision
Government and Public Administration
21. Using People in Mexico to assemble parts; utilizing external resources
GED certificate
Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA)
Outsourcing
Free Enterprise System
22. To look at closely and judge
Evaluate
Manufacturing
Vendor
Stock
23. A course that is not required but can be chosen by a student according to their interests
Resume
Elective
Occupation
Stock
24. Cluster that involves computer and Web-based services; telecommunications services
Information Technology
Manufacturing
Punctuality
Working Conditions
25. Time an employee may take off work with pay
Annual Leave
Retailing
Employment Outlook
Hospitality and Tourism
26. The environment of the workplace
Orientation
Deduction
Career Interest Area
Working Conditions
27. A share of the ownership in a company
Study Skills
Stock
Technical
Employment Agency
28. Agreement to complete a job for an amount of money
Assessment
Job Shadowing
Contract Labor
Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics
29. Following a person on the job to learn job duties and responsibilities
classifieds
Internet
Apprenticeship
Job Shadowing
30. The use of goods or service to make life easier creating new jobs while eliminating others
Learning Style
Help-wanted ads
Technology
Specializing
31. 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
Letter of Application
Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics
Resource
Law of Demand
32. Treating someone unfairly because of his or her race - religion - or sex
Payroll
Career Action Plan
Fee
Discrimination
33. Methods of paying for education/training - such as grants - scholarships - etc.
Semi-monthly Pay
Entry-Level Jobs
Tentative Decision
Financial aid
34. The tool that employers use to find out basic information about job applicants
Application form
Compromise
Business Plan
Career Ladder
35. Cluster that involves computer and Web-based services; telecommunications services
Technical
Information Technology
Entry-Level Jobs
Employment Agency
36. To eliminate unwanted applicants
Procrastinator
Punctuality
Screen out
Job Outlook
37. Earnings below the cost of doing business
Sick Leave
Financial aid
Career
Loss
38. The amount of a paycheck after the deductions are taken out
Net pay
Conflict
Values Compromise
Entrepreneur
39. Cluster that involves designing - building - and repairing structures
Producer
Lifestyle
Risk
Architecture and Construction
40. Jobs or occupations grouped together because of similar knowledge or skills
Arts Audio-Video Technology and Communications
Screen out
Occupation
career cluster
41. To look at closely and judge
Check Stub
Personality
Evaluate
Health Science
42. A short written description of an applicant's personal data - education - and experience - related to a job
Resume
Architecture and Construction
Scholarships
Skill
43. A person who organizes - manages - and assumes the risk of a business
Entrepreneur
Identity
Working Conditions
Orientation
44. A wide variety of workers with different backgrounds - experiences - ideas - and skills in the workplace
Workforce diversity
Arts Audio-Video Technology and Communications
Specializing
Hospitality and Tourism
45. The work done over a period of years in one area of interest
Services
Fee
Business Management and Administration
Career
46. Money earned above the cost of doing business
Services
Bachelor's degree
Specializing
Profit
47. The person who has hires someone to do a job
Career Ladder
Producer
Attitude
Employer
48. Arrange things in order from the most important to the least important
Priortize
Entrepreneur
Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics
Networking
49. To give up something to resolve a conflict
Co-worker
Enterprise
Commission
Compromise
50. An introductory letter written to a prospective employer
Ability
Job
Vocational
Letter of Application