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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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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. A specialized scientific work in manufacturing and industry
Technical
Follow-up Letter
Entrepreneur
Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics
2. A person's outlook on life - usually positive or negative
Internet
Employment Agency
Attitude
Arts Audio-Video Technology and Communications
3. The jobs that beginners start with to train them for higher-level jobs
Year-to-date earnings
Entry-Level Jobs
Follow-up Letter
Job Duty
4. Cluster that involves services involving lodging - entertainment - recreation - and travel; food and beverage management
Hospitality and Tourism
Law of Supply
Values
Discrimination
5. To employ oneself in a particular or specific field of work
Schedule
Specializing
Appearance
Discrimination
6. A skill that you have developed
Research
Government and Public Administration
Ability
Base Pay
7. A service business designed to help put employees and employers together
Employment Agency
Specializing
Job Market
Work ethic
8. Standard minimum pay received by an employee
Base Pay
Job Market
Decision-Making Process
Listening
9. Cluster that involves planning - organizing - and directing business operations
Business Management and Administration
Work Environment
Information Technology
Annual Leave
10. Business which two or more people own and operate
Partnership
Conflict
Time Management
Education/Training Requirements
11. Focusing or concentrating in a particular skill
Producer
Specializing
Business Plan
Work
12. Earnings paid twice a month on designated dates
Career Portfolio
Semi-monthly Pay
Salary
Work
13. A computerized career information delivery system
Personality
Tuition
Job lead
ArkOscar
14. Jobs or occupations grouped together because of similar knowledge or skills
Applicant
Career cluster
Workforce diversity
Long-Term Goal
15. As the price increases producers produce more
Assessment
Law of Supply
Job Duty
Services
16. Something one wants to obtain in the near future generally less than 5 years
Job Shadowing
Loss
Short-Term Goal
Law Public Safety and Security
17. This involves hearing - thinking about and responding to what the speaker is saying
Goal
Decision
Values
Listening
18. Employment during special seasons
Semi-monthly Pay
Temporary Jobs
Bi-Weekly Pay
Outsourcing
19. The combination of attitude - values - interests - and behaviors that identify a person
Personality
Decision-Making Process
Job Description
Apprenticeship
20. To find out more by reading and talking to people
Research
Temporary Jobs
Associate degree
Lifestyle
21. A description of the goals of a business and how it will operate
Risk
Business Plan
Government and Public Administration
Post-secondary education
22. The choice between two or more possibilities
Procedure
Decision
Appearance
Personality
23. The course of action one decides to take at the end of the decision-making process
GED certificate
Plan
Conflict
Identity
24. A decision or plan that can be changed
Tentative Decision
Overtime
Procrastinator
Vocation
25. Jobs requiring less than 35-40 hours a week - depending on the employer
Part-Time Jobs
Letter of Application
Values Compromise
Annual Leave
26. Cluster that involves developing - promoting - and providing goods to consumers; performing tasks for consumers
Marketing Sales and Service
Listening
Workforce diversity
Compromise
27. When a person has to give up part of something they value to resolve a conflict
Values Compromise
Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA)
Volunteering
Technical
28. To eliminate unwanted applicants
Screen out
Interest Inventory
Law of Demand
Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA)
29. Jobs or careers belonging to the same group on the basis of similar knowledge and skills
Sick Leave
Risk
Ability
Related Occupations
30. The need for workers in a particular occupation or field
Job Market
Fringe benefits
Application form
Deduction
31. Being on time for work
Technical
Personality Type
Punctuality
Discrimination
32. Payment for work - usually figured by the hour
Wholesale
Career cluster
Assessment
Wage
33. Following a person on the job to learn job duties and responsibilities
Career Portfolio
Information Technology
Screen out
Job Shadowing
34. Fixed amount of money earned - regardless of hours worked; pay that is calculated exactly the same for every check
Screen out
Salary
Gross pay
O*Net
35. Standards one believes is important about their work
Career Portfolio
Work Values
Fee
Specializing
36. A book used for researching the most common careers in the United States
Job lead
Co-worker
OOH (Occupational Outlook Handbook)
Retailing
37. A course or program that teaches job skills
Sick Leave
Vocational
Payroll
Occupation
38. A resource that involves communicating information with others
Competition
Risk
Time Management
Networking
39. The fee that colleges charge to take their classes
Tuition
Decision-Making Process
Career Portfolio
Prerequisite
40. A document stating that a person has passed a five-part test in the areas of writing - social studies - science - reading - and math
GED certificate
Producer
Personality Type
Commission
41. Undertaking or venture to make more with risk
Specializing
Job Description
Enterprise
Co-worker
42. To buy in bulk form wi the intent to resell by the case
Self-Esteem
Wholesale
Profit
Internet
43. Doing a job without pay to gain experience
Government and Public Administration
Work Environment
Union
Volunteering
44. A group of characteristics that collective form a general group of people with similiar interests - values - and behaviors
Personality Type
Wholesale
Brain Orientation
Personality
45. An assessment that helps people identify their interest areas
Check Stub
Annual Leave
Conflict
Interest Inventory
46. Learning on the job
Consumer
On-the-job training (OJT)
Bachelor's degree
Wholesale
47. notices that employers put in the classified section of the paper describing their job openings
Employment Outlook
Personality Type
Brain Orientation
Help-wanted ads
48. An individual characterstic that helps one determine their personality
Decision
Personality Trait
Application form
O*Net
49. A short written description of an applicant's personal data - education - and experience - related to a job
Salary Range
Resume
Skill
Associate degree
50. Instant opinion - based on certain clues - such as the way you look - act - and talk
Listening
Education/Training Requirements
Job lead
First impression