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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. The need for workers in a particular occupation or field
Job Market
Free Enterprise System
Law of Supply
Demographics
2. The amount of a paycheck after the deductions are taken out
Job
Fee
Education/Training Requirements
Net pay
3. When a person has to give up part of something they value to resolve a conflict
Law of Demand
Time Management
Human Services
Values Compromise
4. An assessment that helps people identify their interest areas
Vocational
Job lead
Interest Inventory
Application form
5. Fixed amount of money earned - regardless of hours worked; pay that is calculated exactly the same for every check
Full-Time Job
Stockholder
Salary
Networking
6. Notices that employers put in the classified section of the paper describing their job openings
Wholesale
Stockholder
Information Technology
Help-wanted ads
7. To buy in bulk form wi the intent to resell by the case
Payroll
Retailing
Personnel
Wholesale
8. Employment during special seasons
Temporary Jobs
Compromise
Partnership
Free Enterprise System
9. A person who owns stock in a company
Personality Type
Stockholder
Employment Outlook
Help-wanted ads
10. A person's outlook on life - usually positive or negative
Reference
Enterprise
Laws of supply and demand
Attitude
11. Cluster that involves the science of maintaining and improving people's physical and mental well-being
Health Science
Ethnic
Vocation
Career Portfolio
12. Fees charged by an organization to unite employees
Union dues
Stock
Working Conditions
Associate degree
13. Cluster that involves services involving lodging - entertainment - recreation - and travel; food and beverage management
Employer
Economy
Letter of Application
Hospitality and Tourism
14. Extras provided by employers (other than wages)
Aptitude
Fringe benefits
Work Values
Annual Leave
15. Earnings paid twice a month on designated dates
Health Science
Semi-monthly Pay
Graduate school
Interest
16. Relating to a specific field with a high degree of skill or experience
Goal
O*Net
Associate degree
Professional
17. Jobs with similiar work actvities
Wholesale
Career Interest Area
Financial aid
Credit
18. Buying a finished good or service with the intent to resell it by the unit
Goods
Competition
Values
Retailing
19. An assessment that helps people identify their interest areas
Career Ladder
Interest Inventory
Commission
Loss
20. A share of the ownership in a company
Sole Proprietorship
Career Interest Area
Prerequisite
Stock
21. To find out more by reading and talking to people
Personality
Priortize
Procedure
Research
22. A service business designed to help put employees and employers together
Aptitude
Self-Concept
Employment Agency
Working Conditions
23. A resource that involves communicating information with others
Networking
Law Public Safety and Security
Commission
Laws of supply and demand
24. The prospect for the future of a job or career
Decision-Making Process
Career Portfolio
Apprenticeship
Employment Outlook
25. A wide variety of workers with different backgrounds - experiences - ideas - and skills in the workplace
ArkOscar
Work
Workforce diversity
Resume
26. Cluster that involves designing - building - and repairing structures
Manufacturing
Job
Architecture and Construction
Technical
27. To buy in bulk form wi the intent to resell by the case
Decision
Screen out
Global Economy
Wholesale
28. Characteristics or make-up of a population
Related Occupations
Long-Term Goal
Demographics
Career
29. Jobs or careers belonging to the same group on the basis of similar knowledge and skills
Employer
Salary Range
Related Occupations
Work Values
30. A person who owns stock in a company
Retailing
Plan
Stockholder
Part-Time Jobs
31. Standards one believes is important about their work
Technical
Values Compromise
Work Values
Stock
32. The person who has hires someone to do a job
Employer
Information Technology
Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics
Economy
33. Generally 40 Hour work week or more
Full-Time Job
Volunteering
Job lead
Career Portfolio
34. Something a person wants to acheive later in life requiring much planning
Salary Range
Loss
Listening Skills
Long-Term Goal
35. Cumulative time given to employees for personal or family illness with pay
Vocational
Job Description
Sick Leave
Hospitality and Tourism
36. A wide variety of workers with different backgrounds - experiences - ideas - and skills in the workplace
career cluster
Workforce diversity
Letter of Application
Plan
37. The computer network system through which information can be shared on the World Wide Web
Hospitality and Tourism
Vocational
Study Skills
Internet
38. A plan of action for education - training - and experience to reach a career goal
On-the-job training (OJT)
Elective
Career Ladder
Specializing
39. A definition of work duties
OOH
Career Portfolio
Job Description
Compromise
40. Cumulative time given to employees for personal or family illness with pay
Marketing Sales and Service
Sick Leave
Persistent
Elective
41. Worldwide financial management system
Post-secondary education
Global Economy
Lifestyle
Services
42. Receiving a paycheck every other Friday
Bi-Weekly Pay
Identity
Follow-up Letter
Health Science
43. Work that a person does for pay
Sick Leave
Job
Deduction
Decision-Making Process
44. Cluster that involves services that improve people's quality of life and promote safe - healthy communities
Resume
Union dues
Human Services
Information Technology
45. Earnings below the cost of doing business
ArkOscar
Loss
Plan
Career Portfolio
46. An objective that a person wants to obtain and works to achieve
Law of Supply
Economy
Graduate school
Goal
47. An individual characterstic that helps one determine their personality
Finance
Personality Trait
Consumer
O*Net
48. A document stating that a person has passed a five-part test in the areas of writing - social studies - science - reading - and math
Career Portfolio
GED certificate
Stock
Deduction
49. Jobs that last for a limited period of time
Related Occupations
Goal
Consumer
Temporary Jobs
50. A long term work plan including education - training - and experience
Annual Leave
Architecture and Construction
Career Goal
Bi-Weekly Pay