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Career Vocab
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Subject
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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. An individual characterstic that helps one determine their personality
Time Management
Professional
Hospitality and Tourism
Personality Trait
2. Being on time for work
Information Technology
Competition
Punctuality
Career cluster
3. Receiving a paycheck every other Friday
Temporary Jobs
Punctuality
Union
Bi-Weekly Pay
4. Focusing or concentrating in a particular skill
Post-secondary education
Finance
Persistent
Specializing
5. A resource that involves communicating information with others
Networking
Law Public Safety and Security
Vendor
Schedule
6. A short written description of an applicant's personal data - education - and experience - related to a job
Job Duty
Resume
Stock
Priortize
7. Intangible work done for others as an occupation
Interest
Agriculture Food and Natural Resources
Letter of Application
Services
8. Cluster that involves developing - promoting - and providing goods to consumers; performing tasks for consumers
Stock
Goods
Working Conditions
Marketing Sales and Service
9. Work that a person does for pay
Loss
Health Science
Job
Check Stub
10. Payment for work - usually figured by the hour
Law of Supply
Work Values
Career Action Plan
Wage
11. The surrounding physical conditions of a workplace
Values
Aptitude
Work Environment
Vocation
12. A document stating that a person has passed a five-part test in the areas of writing - social studies - science - reading - and math
Manufacturing
GED certificate
Goods
Study Skills
13. The ability or potential for learning new skills
Full-Time Job
Short-Term Goal
Co-worker
Aptitude
14. Standards one believes is important about their work
Learning Style
Entry-Level Jobs
Work Values
Global Economy
15. one who puts off doing things or making decisions
Job Description
Base Pay
Occupation
Procrastinator
16. A course that is required before another course can be taken
Prerequisite
Business Management and Administration
Manufacturing
Orientation
17. Cluster that involves designing and producing materials into intermediate or final products
Qualification
Reference
Business Plan
Manufacturing
18. Business which two or more people own and operate
Partnership
Career
Procrastinator
Post-secondary education
19. Buying a finished good or service with the intent to resell it by the unit
Retailing
Outsourcing
Workforce diversity
Sole Proprietorship
20. The ability to perform a certain activity well
Conflict
Workforce diversity
Skill
Contract Labor
21. Cluster that involves services involving lodging - entertainment - recreation - and travel; food and beverage management
Hospitality and Tourism
Volunteering
Wage
Union
22. A thank you letter written following an interview
Temporary Jobs
Career
Follow-up Letter
OOH (Occupational Outlook Handbook)
23. A service business designed to help put employees and employers together
Career cluster
Profit
Employment Agency
Outsourcing
24. The work done over a period of years in one area of interest
Career
Compromise
Loss
Business Management and Administration
25. Characteristics or make-up of a population
Demographics
Orientation
Consumer
Law of Demand
26. Natural method or way one thinks or learns
Hospitality and Tourism
Learning Style
Related Occupations
Outsourcing
27. The thing a person enjoys doing or thinking about
Profit
Vocation
Interest
Corporation
28. Cluster that involves designing - building - and repairing structures
Compromise
Architecture and Construction
Manufacturing
Sick Leave
29. Something one wants to obtain in the near future generally less than 5 years
Job lead
Short-Term Goal
Tuition
Internet
30. An occupation one is well-suited or qualified for
Hospitality and Tourism
Apprenticeship
Personality
Vocation
31. Determining the best way for an individual to study - remember - or learn
Networking
Technology
Study Skills
Marketing Sales and Service
32. To make a plan or arrange things that must be done
Job lead
First impression
Law of Demand
Schedule
33. Cluster that involves protective and legal services
Law Public Safety and Security
Professional
Lifestyle
Assessment
34. Jobs that last for a limited period of time
Follow-up Letter
Interest
Temporary Jobs
Screen out
35. Cluster that involves visual and performing arts; multimedia communications; journalism
Time Management
Sole Proprietorship
Laws of supply and demand
Arts Audio-Video Technology and Communications
36. A wide variety of workers with different backgrounds - experiences - ideas - and skills in the workplace
Job Outlook
Workforce diversity
Financial aid
Profit
37. Relating to a specific field with a high degree of skill or experience
Human Services
Professional
Transportation - Distribution - and Logistics
Ability
38. A person who owns stock in a company
Stockholder
Persistent
Check Stub
Screen out
39. The prospect for the future of a job or career
Post-secondary education
Employment Outlook
Global Economy
Appearance
40. To look at closely and judge
Job lead
Related Occupations
Evaluate
Job Description
41. Pay that is based upon the percentage of sales
Professional
Commission
Economy
Compromise
42. Someone who purchases a good or service with the intent to use it
Retailing
Entrepreneur
Consumer
Tentative Decision
43. Business owned by many people but treated by the law as though it were one person
Global Economy
Corporation
Goods
Self-Concept
44. Clash of ideas or values
Personality Trait
Conflict
Hospitality and Tourism
Graduate school
45. Commoney known as Social Security
Aptitude
ArkOscar
Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA)
Listening
46. Cluster that involves computer and Web-based services; telecommunications services
Information Technology
Interest
Government and Public Administration
Work ethic
47. Possibility of loss
Manufacturing
Job Market
Risk
Check Stub
48. Cumulative time given to employees for personal or family illness with pay
Sick Leave
Punctuality
Related Occupations
Identity
49. Someone who creates a good or service
Post-secondary education
Business Management and Administration
Producer
Listening
50. The combination of attitude - values - interests - and behaviors that identify a person
Employment Agency
Personality
Volunteering
Agriculture Food and Natural Resources