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Career Vocab
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soft-skills
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Possibility of loss
Risk
Architecture and Construction
Overtime
Stock
2. Money earned above the cost of doing business
Free Enterprise System
Job Shadowing
Profit
Work ethic
3. Time an employee may take off work with pay
Annual Leave
Education and Training
Procrastinator
Entrepreneur
4. An introductory letter written to a prospective employer
Personality Trait
Letter of Application
Brain Orientation
Education and Training
5. Standards one believes is important about their work
Work Values
Interview
Values Compromise
Goods
6. Something a person wants to acheive later in life requiring much planning
Screen out
Long-Term Goal
Assessment
Arts Audio-Video Technology and Communications
7. A book used for researching the most common careers in the United States
Free Enterprise System
OOH (Occupational Outlook Handbook)
Associate degree
Procedure
8. The course of action one decides to take at the end of the decision-making process
Job Description
Plan
Job Outlook
Commission
9. A course or program that teaches job skills
Vocational
Enterprise
Job
Internet
10. A person who works with you
Co-worker
Career cluster
Free Enterprise System
Tentative Decision
11. Amount of money taken from an employee's gross pay for taxes - insurance - social security - and other benefits
Schedule
Tentative Decision
Deduction
Self-Concept
12. Cluster that involves computer and Web-based services; telecommunications services
Information Technology
Volunteering
Outsourcing
Procedure
13. Collection of information about oneself
Priortize
Personality Type
Career Portfolio
Apprenticeship
14. Learning on the job
On-the-job training (OJT)
Resume
Law Public Safety and Security
Base Pay
15. The use of goods or service to make life easier creating new jobs while eliminating others
Technology
Research
Goods
Help-wanted ads
16. The amount of a paycheck after the deductions are taken out
Vocational
Decision-Making Process
Entrepreneur
Net pay
17. Salary of wages given to an employee on a regular basis
Tuition
Payroll
Goods
Year-to-date earnings
18. Arrange things in order from the most important to the least important
Personality Type
Career Portfolio
Priortize
ArkOscar
19. Focusing or concentrating in a particular skill
Prerequisite
Workforce diversity
Vendor
Specializing
20. Earnings below the cost of doing business
Loss
Hospitality and Tourism
Self-Concept
Appearance
21. The jobs that beginners start with to train them for higher-level jobs
Economy
Values Compromise
Reference
Entry-Level Jobs
22. A free flowing economy based upon the laws of supply and demand to allow individuals or companies to buy and sell goods and/or services at a profit
Entry-Level Jobs
Free Enterprise System
Bachelor's degree
Self-Esteem
23. When two or more companies rival for consumer dollars
Competition
Partnership
Laws of supply and demand
Law Public Safety and Security
24. Cluster that involves coordinating the movement of people - goods - and services; career cluster - jobs or occupations grouped together because of similar knowledge or skills
Values Compromise
Job Outlook
Union dues
Transportation - Distribution - and Logistics
25. Business owned by one person
Sole Proprietorship
Work
Stockholder
Union dues
26. To eliminate unwanted applicants
Stockholder
Screen out
Associate degree
First impression
27. Characteristics or make-up of a population
Research
Demographics
Job Description
Producer
28. Treating someone unfairly because of his or her race - religion - or sex
Reference
Discrimination
Employment Outlook
Long-Term Goal
29. Jobs or occupations grouped together because of similar knowledge or skills
Career cluster
Career Goal
Temporary Jobs
Law of Supply
30. 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
Credit
Bi-Weekly Pay
Values Compromise
Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics
31. A resource that involves communicating information with others
Elective
OOH (Occupational Outlook Handbook)
Networking
Decision-Making Process
32. A document stating that a person has passed a five-part test in the areas of writing - social studies - science - reading - and math
Working Conditions
Vendor
GED certificate
Finance
33. To look at closely and judge
Evaluate
Listening Skills
Schedule
Values
34. Cluster that involves providing education and training services; providing support services
Law of Demand
Tuition
Work ethic
Education and Training
35. The personality or activity by which a person is known
Identity
Self-Esteem
Goal
Long-Term Goal
36. Extras provided by employers (other than wages)
Internship
Fringe benefits
Attitude
Technology
37. A program of study beyond a bachelor's degree
Graduate school
Listening
Work Environment
Tentative Decision
38. A wide variety of workers with different backgrounds - experiences - ideas - and skills in the workplace
Internet
Workforce diversity
Specializing
Credit
39. To find out more by reading and talking to people
Full-Time Job
Job Description
Research
Networking
40. Fixed amount of money earned - regardless of hours worked; pay that is calculated exactly the same for every check
Salary
Commission
Assessment
Enterprise
41. The type of job in which a person is employed
Credit
Occupation
Fringe benefits
Short-Term Goal
42. A belief - understanding - and recognition of one's own abilities
Self-Esteem
Information Technology
Values
Global Economy
43. Way in which one uses or utilitizes the brain best
Attitude
Brain Orientation
Short-Term Goal
Partnership
44. Someone who sells goods or services
Vendor
Attitude
Services
Commission
45. Being on time for work
Personality Type
Career Goal
Government and Public Administration
Punctuality
46. Average expected earnings from beginning to experienced pay
Resume
Economy
Entry-Level Jobs
Salary Range
47. A person who organizes - manages - and assumes the risk of a business
Conflict
Post-secondary education
Entrepreneur
Goal
48. To employ oneself in a particular or specific field of work
Specializing
Post-secondary education
Corporation
Learning Style
49. A certificate of completion awarded to a person after they successfully complete a required set of college courses in both general and specific areas - usually lasting 4 years
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50. Earnings above base pay
Bi-Weekly Pay
Overtime
Attitude
Annual Leave