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Career Orientation Basics
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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 program of study beyond a bachelor's degree
Related Occupations
Graduate school
Wholesale
Full-Time Job
2. Possibility of loss
Risk
Elective
Time Management
Contract Labor
3. The work done over a period of years in one area of interest
Specializing
Career
Specializing
Year-to-date earnings
4. A description of the goals of a business and how it will operate
Government and Public Administration
Business Plan
Financial aid
Priortize
5. As the prices decreases producers purchase more
Law of Demand
Listening Skills
Job Outlook
Evaluate
6. Something one wants to obtain in the near future generally less than 5 years
Marketing Sales and Service
Short-Term Goal
Interest
Associate degree
7. One who puts off doing things or making decisions
Resume
Commission
Procrastinator
Stockholder
8. Receiving a paycheck every other Friday
Career Action Plan
Contract Labor
Personality Type
Bi-Weekly Pay
9. Money accounted for from January 1st through the current pay period
Co-worker
Year-to-date earnings
Global Economy
Annual Leave
10. The choice between two or more possibilities
Law of Supply
Personality Trait
Discrimination
Decision
11. A specialized scientific work in manufacturing and industry
Career Portfolio
Personality Type
Technical
O*Net
12. A special skill - knowledge - or ability that enables a person to perform a particular job
Corporation
Qualification
Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA)
Hospitality and Tourism
13. Business owned by one person
Finance
Research
Sole Proprietorship
Vocational
14. A course or program that teaches job skills
Skill
Free Enterprise System
Vocational
Help-wanted ads
15. Jobs or careers belonging to the same group on the basis of similar knowledge and skills
Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics
Competition
Consumer
Related Occupations
16. A group of workers who collectively bargin for higher wages - improved benefits - and better working conditions
Union
Profit
Related Occupations
Goods
17. Time an employee may take off work with pay
Annual Leave
Laws of supply and demand
Job Shadowing
Follow-up Letter
18. A thank you letter written following an interview
Finance
Education/Training Requirements
Follow-up Letter
Gross pay
19. A group of characteristics that collective form a general group of people with similiar interests - values - and behaviors
Values Compromise
Technical
Contract Labor
Personality Type
20. Doing a job without pay to gain experience
Volunteering
Elective
Free Enterprise System
Compromise
21. Someone who purchases a good or service with the intent to use it
Marketing Sales and Service
Law Public Safety and Security
Consumer
Manufacturing
22. A resource that involves communicating information with others
Profit
Networking
Economy
Job
23. To eliminate unwanted applicants
Work Environment
Screen out
Specializing
Business Plan
24. Cluster that involves regulating and managing local - state - and federal government
Stock
Part-Time Jobs
Government and Public Administration
Year-to-date earnings
25. Typical way of life
Salary Range
Working Conditions
Lifestyle
Networking
26. Cluster that involves developing - promoting - and providing goods to consumers; performing tasks for consumers
Deduction
Punctuality
Part-Time Jobs
Marketing Sales and Service
27. The fee that colleges charge to take their classes
O*Net
Tuition
Ability
Time Management
28. To eliminate unwanted applicants
Screen out
Salary Range
Specializing
Free Enterprise System
29. Earnings above base pay
Related Occupations
Overtime
Help-wanted ads
Applicant
30. The surrounding physical conditions of a workplace
Procedure
Marketing Sales and Service
Stock
Work Environment
31. A short written description of an applicant's personal data - education - and experience - related to a job
Laws of supply and demand
Resume
Aptitude
Year-to-date earnings
32. To make a plan or arrange things that must be done
Schedule
Risk
Applicant
Credit
33. Help-wanted section of the newspaper that lists job openings
Employment Outlook
On-the-job training (OJT)
Career Interest Area
classifieds
34. To look at closely and judge
Letter of Application
Evaluate
Tentative Decision
Education and Training
35. Continuing for a long period of time to accomplish a task
Help-wanted ads
Research
Persistent
Agriculture Food and Natural Resources
36. Cluster that involves developing - promoting - and providing goods to consumers; performing tasks for consumers
Decision
Marketing Sales and Service
Profit
Law of Supply
37. Standard minimum pay received by an employee
Base Pay
Employment Agency
Job Description
Listening Skills
38. A decision or plan that can be changed
Goal
Priortize
Tentative Decision
Interest Inventory
39. Economic rules which influence consumer buying decisions
Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA)
Manufacturing
Procrastinator
Laws of supply and demand
40. Using People in Mexico to assemble parts; utilizing external resources
Annual Leave
Outsourcing
Working Conditions
Graduate school
41. To find out more by reading and talking to people
Arts Audio-Video Technology and Communications
Job
Apprenticeship
Research
42. The combination of attitude - values - interests - and behaviors that identify a person
Job Outlook
Economy
Personality
Post-secondary education
43. A formal meeting between an employer and job applicant about a job opening
Law Public Safety and Security
Interview
Bachelor's degree
Salary
44. Clash of ideas or values
Qualification
Conflict
Assessment
Study Skills
45. 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
Laws of supply and demand
Agriculture Food and Natural Resources
Commission
On-the-job training (OJT)
46. A formal meeting between an employer and job applicant about a job opening
Interview
Conflict
Architecture and Construction
Payroll
47. The jobs that beginners start with to train them for higher-level jobs
Entry-Level Jobs
Wage
Employer
OOH
48. Buying a finished good or service with the intent to resell it by the unit
Retailing
Wage
Laws of supply and demand
Co-worker
49. Characteristics or make-up of a population
Demographics
Persistent
Co-worker
Punctuality
50. Cluster that involves acquiring - investing - and managing money
Finance
Agriculture Food and Natural Resources
Short-Term Goal
Corporation