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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.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
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. Treating someone unfairly because of his or her race - religion - or sex
Scholarships
Discrimination
Sole Proprietorship
Apprenticeship
2. Acquaint or become familiar with a new situation
Orientation
Manufacturing
Producer
Attitude
3. The choice between two or more possibilities
Career Goal
Vocational
Decision
Demographics
4. A special skill - knowledge - or ability that enables a person to perform a particular job
Qualification
Vocation
Job Description
Wholesale
5. Cumulative time given to employees for personal or family illness with pay
Sick Leave
Seasonal Work
Enterprise
Tuition
6. Economic rules which influence consumer buying decisions
Finance
Education/Training Requirements
Laws of supply and demand
Vocation
7. A person who organizes - manages - and assumes the risk of a business
Salary Range
Self-Concept
Corporation
Entrepreneur
8. An introductory letter written to a prospective employer
Part-Time Jobs
Letter of Application
Screen out
Business Management and Administration
9. Anything a person has or uses to reach a goal
Resource
Brain Orientation
GED certificate
Procedure
10. 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
Stockholder
Corporation
Career cluster
Agriculture Food and Natural Resources
11. A course that is required before another course can be taken
Agriculture Food and Natural Resources
Career Action Plan
Education and Training
Prerequisite
12. The use of goods or service to make life easier creating new jobs while eliminating others
Technology
Listening Skills
Interest
Volunteering
13. As the price increases producers produce more
Post-secondary education
Career Portfolio
Wholesale
Law of Supply
14. Methods of paying for education/training - such as grants - scholarships - etc.
Risk
Tentative Decision
Punctuality
Financial aid
15. Money earned above the cost of doing business
Profit
Business Management and Administration
Vendor
Skill
16. The need for workers in a particular occupation or field
Personality
Job Market
Vocational
Union dues
17. Earnings paid twice a month on designated dates
Semi-monthly Pay
Producer
Career Portfolio
Values
18. The fee that colleges charge to take their classes
Working Conditions
Screen out
Net pay
Tuition
19. A productive activity resulting in something useful
Letter of Application
Work
Career Portfolio
Payroll
20. Intangible work done for others as an occupation
Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA)
Brain Orientation
Services
Elective
21. A thank you letter written following an interview
Career Interest Area
Follow-up Letter
Lifestyle
Specializing
22. The type of job in which a person is employed
Career Portfolio
Occupation
Applicant
Career Action Plan
23. Typical way of life
Fringe benefits
Lifestyle
Economy
Finance
24. To eliminate unwanted applicants
Lifestyle
Screen out
Career Action Plan
Career Interest Area
25. The ability to perform a certain activity well
Risk
Post-secondary education
Tentative Decision
Skill
26. The person who has hires someone to do a job
Laws of supply and demand
Career Interest Area
Employer
Specializing
27. Temporary work during the summer
Seasonal Work
Job Description
Risk
Decision
28. The work done over a period of years in one area of interest
Listening
Orientation
Career
Salary Range
29. The ability or potential for learning new skills
Law Public Safety and Security
Aptitude
Job Duty
Career Interest Area
30. Cluster that involves developing - promoting - and providing goods to consumers; performing tasks for consumers
Punctuality
Deduction
Marketing Sales and Service
Vocation
31. Cluster that involves regulating and managing local - state - and federal government
Job Shadowing
Government and Public Administration
Education and Training
Information Technology
32. 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
Related Occupations
Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics
Punctuality
Aptitude
33. The course of action one decides to take at the end of the decision-making process
Values
Letter of Application
Plan
Interest Inventory
34. Commoney known as Social Security
Employment Outlook
Financial aid
Punctuality
Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA)
35. An amount of money charged by others for services
Fee
Ability
Temporary Jobs
Job
36. Relating to races or groups of people with common customs
Interest Inventory
Assessment
Ethnic
Sole Proprietorship
37. Something one wants to obtain in the near future generally less than 5 years
Decision-Making Process
Short-Term Goal
Sick Leave
Profit
38. Hearing - learning - and retaining verbal information
Services
Procedure
Listening Skills
Graduate school
39. The tool that employers use to find out basic information about job applicants
Entry-Level Jobs
Work Environment
Priortize
Application form
40. Learning on the job
Stockholder
Job lead
On-the-job training (OJT)
Union dues
41. Average expected earnings from beginning to experienced pay
Education/Training Requirements
Risk
Marketing Sales and Service
Salary Range
42. A book used for researching the most common careers in the United States
Technical
OOH (Occupational Outlook Handbook)
Hospitality and Tourism
Study Skills
43. A resource that involves communicating information with others
Manufacturing
Networking
Information Technology
Fee
44. A group of workers who collectively bargin for higher wages - improved benefits - and better working conditions
Union
Goods
Education and Training
Discrimination
45. When a person has to give up part of something they value to resolve a conflict
GED certificate
Job Duty
Values Compromise
Personality Trait
46. An assessment that helps people identify their interest areas
Career Ladder
Retailing
Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA)
Interest Inventory
47. A short written description of an applicant's personal data - education - and experience - related to a job
Wholesale
Resume
Sick Leave
Employer
48. A task one is expected to perform on the job
Health Science
Work
Job Duty
Deduction
49. A description of the goals of a business and how it will operate
Specializing
Conflict
Business Plan
Procrastinator
50. Focusing or concentrating in a particular skill
Internet
Salary
Specializing
Listening Skills