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Career Vocab
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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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1. Business owned by one person
Overtime
Sole Proprietorship
Employment Agency
Career Action Plan
2. Clash of ideas or values
Networking
Orientation
Conflict
Plan
3. An objective that a person wants to obtain and works to achieve
Punctuality
Goal
Services
Loss
4. Tangible merchandise that you can see and touch
Goods
Job Market
Tentative Decision
Job Description
5. To employ oneself in a particular or specific field of work
Laws of supply and demand
Specializing
Services
Professional
6. The future prospects for employment in a particular job or field
Career
Lifestyle
Business Management and Administration
Job Outlook
7. Earnings below the cost of doing business
Loss
Brain Orientation
Enterprise
Evaluate
8. Something one wants to obtain in the near future generally less than 5 years
Short-Term Goal
Entry-Level Jobs
Personnel
Qualification
9. Receiving a paycheck every other Friday
Arts Audio-Video Technology and Communications
Partnership
Prerequisite
Bi-Weekly Pay
10. The fee that colleges charge to take their classes
Tuition
Bachelor's degree
Education and Training
Technology
11. Jobs or occupations grouped together because of similar knowledge or skills
Finance
Career cluster
Learning Style
Decision-Making Process
12. Someone who sells goods or services
Union
Vendor
Corporation
O*Net
13. Cluster that involves designing - building - and repairing structures
Agriculture Food and Natural Resources
Architecture and Construction
On-the-job training (OJT)
Retailing
14. A short written description of an applicant's personal data - education - and experience - related to a job
Seasonal Work
Education and Training
Resume
Annual Leave
15. A special skill - knowledge - or ability that enables a person to perform a particular job
Procedure
Services
Qualification
Lifestyle
16. Cluster that involves visual and performing arts; multimedia communications; journalism
Arts Audio-Video Technology and Communications
On-the-job training (OJT)
Manufacturing
Resource
17. Money earned above the cost of doing business
Profit
Law of Supply
Research
Risk
18. Cluster that involves coordinating the movement of people - goods - and services; career cluster - jobs or occupations grouped together because of similar knowledge or skills
Scholarships
Tentative Decision
Values
Transportation - Distribution - and Logistics
19. A wide variety of workers with different backgrounds - experiences - ideas - and skills in the workplace
Workforce diversity
Learning Style
Short-Term Goal
Laws of supply and demand
20. Cluster that involves designing and producing materials into intermediate or final products
On-the-job training (OJT)
Technical
Manufacturing
Personality Trait
21. A person who organizes - manages - and assumes the risk of a business
Entrepreneur
Semi-monthly Pay
Qualification
Career Ladder
22. A person who owns stock in a company
Partnership
Stockholder
Job Market
Base Pay
23. Help-wanted section of the newspaper that lists job openings
Help-wanted ads
Agriculture Food and Natural Resources
Career Goal
Classifieds
24. Continuing for a long period of time to accomplish a task
Persistent
Decision-Making Process
Job Market
Classifieds
25. When two or more companies rival for consumer dollars
Competition
OOH (Occupational Outlook Handbook)
GED certificate
Personality
26. Jobs that last for a limited period of time
Related Occupations
Temporary Jobs
Letter of Application
Interest
27. Jobs requiring less than 35-40 hours a week - depending on the employer
On-the-job training (OJT)
Health Science
Part-Time Jobs
Conflict
28. The way in which a person views their own self-worth
Self-Concept
Technology
Work ethic
Related Occupations
29. Commoney known as Social Security
Consumer
Education/Training Requirements
Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA)
Conflict
30. Cluster that involves developing - promoting - and providing goods to consumers; performing tasks for consumers
Outsourcing
Payroll
Marketing Sales and Service
Procrastinator
31. Relating to races or groups of people with common customs
Government and Public Administration
Gross pay
Ethnic
Scholarships
32. A personal evaluation to help you make decisions
Bi-Weekly Pay
Attitude
Human Services
Assessment
33. An individual characterstic that helps one determine their personality
Personality Trait
Global Economy
Credit
Job
34. Focusing or concentrating in a particular skill
Annual Leave
Study Skills
First impression
Specializing
35. Doing a job without pay to gain experience
Listening Skills
Volunteering
Qualification
Job
36. Cumulative time given to employees for personal or family illness with pay
Sick Leave
Attitude
Associate degree
Free Enterprise System
37. The need for workers in a particular occupation or field
Co-worker
Ethnic
Financial aid
Job Market
38. A skill that you have developed
Follow-up Letter
Demographics
Ability
Seasonal Work
39. Standard minimum pay received by an employee
Outsourcing
Technical
Work ethic
Base Pay
40. A formal meeting between an employer and job applicant about a job opening
Interview
Union dues
Fee
Marketing Sales and Service
41. The use of goods or service to make life easier creating new jobs while eliminating others
Overtime
Attitude
Technology
Full-Time Job
42. Personal standards by which one lives
Seasonal Work
Values
Payroll
Apprenticeship
43. A thank you letter written following an interview
Follow-up Letter
Elective
Career Action Plan
Networking
44. The steps one takes to make the best decision
Decision-Making Process
Competition
Law of Demand
Profit
45. A temporary paid or unpaid position that involves direct work experience in a career field
Internet
Personnel
Brain Orientation
Internship
46. Temporary work during the summer
Punctuality
Seasonal Work
Goal
Internship
47. Pay that is based upon the percentage of sales
Commission
Employer
Global Economy
Priortize
48. Extras provided by employers (other than wages)
Net pay
Fringe benefits
ArkOscar
Related Occupations
49. A document stating that a person has passed a five-part test in the areas of writing - social studies - science - reading - and math
Corporation
GED certificate
Study Skills
Apprenticeship
50. To eliminate unwanted applicants
GED certificate
Screen out
Priortize
Law Public Safety and Security