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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. Jobs requiring less than 35-40 hours a week - depending on the employer
Employer
Architecture and Construction
Part-Time Jobs
Job Duty
2. Cluster that involves protective and legal services
Time Management
Priortize
Values Compromise
Law Public Safety and Security
3. A share of the ownership in a company
Specializing
Stock
Apprenticeship
Discrimination
4. A course that is required before another course can be taken
Evaluate
Entry-Level Jobs
Prerequisite
Appearance
5. Collection of information about oneself
Career
Career Portfolio
Scholarships
Employer
6. Generally 40 Hour work week or more
Arts Audio-Video Technology and Communications
Career cluster
Full-Time Job
Education and Training
7. Clash of ideas or values
Work ethic
Conflict
Working Conditions
Letter of Application
8. An objective that a person wants to obtain and works to achieve
Qualification
Goal
Punctuality
Salary Range
9. Buying a finished good or service with the intent to resell it by the unit
Full-Time Job
Retailing
Occupation
Associate degree
10. Payment for work - usually figured by the hour
Fee
Partnership
Follow-up Letter
Wage
11. Cluster that involves designing - building - and repairing structures
Work
Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA)
Architecture and Construction
Post-secondary education
12. Intangible work done for others as an occupation
Stockholder
Tuition
Fee
Services
13. A course or program that teaches job skills
On-the-job training (OJT)
Interest Inventory
Specializing
Vocational
14. A group of employees
Lifestyle
Personnel
Work
On-the-job training (OJT)
15. Cluster that involves providing education and training services; providing support services
Education and Training
Listening
Career Action Plan
Job lead
16. The course of action one decides to take at the end of the decision-making process
Hospitality and Tourism
Plan
Bachelor's degree
Base Pay
17. The jobs that beginners start with to train them for higher-level jobs
Tentative Decision
Entry-Level Jobs
Corporation
Hospitality and Tourism
18. The thing a person enjoys doing or thinking about
Interest
Screen out
Wholesale
Scholarships
19. The work done over a period of years in one area of interest
Values Compromise
Personality Type
Classifieds
Career
20. Relating to races or groups of people with common customs
Resume
Ethnic
Apprenticeship
GED certificate
21. Treating someone unfairly because of his or her race - religion - or sex
Work Values
Salary
Qualification
Discrimination
22. Employment during special seasons
Technical
Follow-up Letter
Temporary Jobs
Laws of supply and demand
23. Help-wanted section of the newspaper that lists job openings
Procedure
Classifieds
Tuition
Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics
24. Someone who sells goods or services
Workforce diversity
Vendor
Vocation
Bi-Weekly Pay
25. Continuing for a long period of time to accomplish a task
Applicant
Persistent
Study Skills
Financial aid
26. 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
Agriculture Food and Natural Resources
Internship
Job lead
Payroll
27. Jobs or careers belonging to the same group on the basis of similar knowledge and skills
Overtime
Risk
Work ethic
Related Occupations
28. The prospect for the future of a job or career
Stock
Graduate school
Vocational
Employment Outlook
29. An assessment that helps people identify their interest areas
Work Environment
Deduction
Interest Inventory
Goal
30. A computerized career information delivery system
ArkOscar
Commission
Finance
Decision
31. Typical way of life
GED certificate
Lifestyle
Wholesale
Stockholder
32. Way in which one uses or utilitizes the brain best
Internet
Deduction
Brain Orientation
Salary Range
33. Any information about possible job openings
Corporation
Job lead
Seasonal Work
Study Skills
34. A resource that involves communicating information with others
Networking
Overtime
Evaluate
Listening Skills
35. A group of characteristics that collective form a general group of people with similiar interests - values - and behaviors
Overtime
Personality Type
Career
Associate degree
36. A formal meeting between an employer and job applicant about a job opening
Interview
Wholesale
Discrimination
Career
37. Extras provided by employers (other than wages)
Semi-monthly Pay
Elective
Procedure
Fringe benefits
38. A person's outlook on life - usually positive or negative
Attitude
Check Stub
Listening
Scholarships
39. Methods of paying for education/training - such as grants - scholarships - etc.
Financial aid
Payroll
Procedure
Job
40. A book used for researching the most common careers in the United States
OOH (Occupational Outlook Handbook)
ArkOscar
Demographics
Arts Audio-Video Technology and Communications
41. Jobs or occupations grouped together because of similar knowledge or skills
Contract Labor
Help-wanted ads
Career cluster
Time Management
42. Amount of money taken from an employee's gross pay for taxes - insurance - social security - and other benefits
Reference
Deduction
Corporation
Arts Audio-Video Technology and Communications
43. Economic rules which influence consumer buying decisions
Post-secondary education
Career Interest Area
Information Technology
Laws of supply and demand
44. Anything a person has or uses to reach a goal
Consumer
Qualification
Professional
Resource
45. The fee that colleges charge to take their classes
Profit
Brain Orientation
Entry-Level Jobs
Tuition
46. Possibility of loss
Qualification
Related Occupations
Risk
Law of Demand
47. A person who will give a favorable report of a job applicant to the employer
Follow-up Letter
Workforce diversity
Vocational
Reference
48. An individual characterstic that helps one determine their personality
Personality Trait
Workforce diversity
Career Goal
Assessment
49. The total amount of an employee's earnings before deductions are taken out
Gross pay
Career Ladder
Tentative Decision
Temporary Jobs
50. Part of the paycheck that shows earnings and deductions
Check Stub
Year-to-date earnings
Laws of supply and demand
Help-wanted ads