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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. Cluster that involves protective and legal services
Law Public Safety and Security
Co-worker
Discrimination
Applicant
2. A course that is required before another course can be taken
Specializing
Evaluate
Career Ladder
Prerequisite
3. A temporary paid or unpaid position that involves direct work experience in a career field
Internship
Fee
Workforce diversity
Evaluate
4. Something one wants to obtain in the near future generally less than 5 years
Credit
Career Portfolio
Short-Term Goal
Plan
5. A resource that involves communicating information with others
Hospitality and Tourism
Wage
Networking
Net pay
6. Buying a finished good or service with the intent to resell it by the unit
Specializing
Check Stub
Sick Leave
Retailing
7. Cluster that involves computer and Web-based services; telecommunications services
Temporary Jobs
Global Economy
Information Technology
Salary Range
8. Receiving a paycheck every other Friday
Bi-Weekly Pay
Partnership
Evaluate
Brain Orientation
9. A book used for researching the most common careers in the United States
Elective
Education/Training Requirements
Work ethic
OOH (Occupational Outlook Handbook)
10. A person who owns stock in a company
Tuition
Stockholder
Job Description
Listening Skills
11. Cluster that involves services that improve people's quality of life and promote safe - healthy communities
Sick Leave
Temporary Jobs
Manufacturing
Human Services
12. Cumulative time given to employees for personal or family illness with pay
Employer
Sick Leave
Consumer
GED certificate
13. Way in which one uses or utilitizes the brain best
Job Duty
Brain Orientation
Net pay
Skill
14. A wide variety of workers with different backgrounds - experiences - ideas - and skills in the workplace
Workforce diversity
Career
Manufacturing
Law Public Safety and Security
15. The course of action one decides to take at the end of the decision-making process
Learning Style
Arts Audio-Video Technology and Communications
Plan
Demographics
16. To make a plan or arrange things that must be done
Schedule
Discrimination
Networking
Job Market
17. A group of characteristics that collective form a general group of people with similiar interests - values - and behaviors
ArkOscar
Overtime
Personality Type
Goods
18. Payment for work - usually figured by the hour
Wage
Work Values
Career Goal
Values Compromise
19. Fixed amount of money earned - regardless of hours worked; pay that is calculated exactly the same for every check
Employment Outlook
Values Compromise
Salary
Prerequisite
20. A group of employees
GED certificate
Personnel
Co-worker
Technology
21. Treating someone unfairly because of his or her race - religion - or sex
Government and Public Administration
Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA)
Research
Discrimination
22. Cluster that involves services involving lodging - entertainment - recreation - and travel; food and beverage management
Interview
Workforce diversity
Tentative Decision
Hospitality and Tourism
23. The tool that employers use to find out basic information about job applicants
Classifieds
Elective
Health Science
Application form
24. Collection of information about oneself
Career Portfolio
Producer
Decision
Demographics
25. A group of workers who collectively bargin for higher wages - improved benefits - and better working conditions
Work ethic
Sick Leave
Union
Law of Demand
26. Personal standards by which one lives
Law of Demand
Free Enterprise System
Credit
Values
27. The thing a person enjoys doing or thinking about
Related Occupations
Skill
Interest
Credit
28. The surrounding physical conditions of a workplace
Arts Audio-Video Technology and Communications
Plan
Annual Leave
Work Environment
29. A decision or plan that can be changed
Union dues
Tentative Decision
Sole Proprietorship
Priortize
30. A share of the ownership in a company
First impression
Procrastinator
Contract Labor
Stock
31. 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
Screen out
Loss
Fee
Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics
32. Hearing - learning - and retaining verbal information
Graduate school
Job Description
Listening Skills
Career Goal
33. A description of the goals of a business and how it will operate
Business Plan
Resume
Enterprise
Services
34. An action or series of actions determined by an employer for a specific process
Procedure
Classifieds
Listening
Time Management
35. A long term work plan including education - training - and experience
Career Goal
Health Science
Personnel
Personality Type
36. A thank you letter written following an interview
Free Enterprise System
Skill
Follow-up Letter
Corporation
37. Following a person on the job to learn job duties and responsibilities
Fringe benefits
Loss
Producer
Job Shadowing
38. Arrange things in order from the most important to the least important
Manufacturing
Priortize
Contract Labor
Short-Term Goal
39. To find out more by reading and talking to people
Partnership
Personality Trait
Research
Job Outlook
40. Undertaking or venture to make more with risk
Persistent
Enterprise
Deduction
Overtime
41. Natural method or way one thinks or learns
Career Interest Area
Manufacturing
Personality Type
Learning Style
42. A program of study beyond a bachelor's degree
Career Ladder
Outsourcing
Graduate school
Law of Demand
43. The ability or potential for learning new skills
Work ethic
Attitude
Enterprise
Aptitude
44. Clash of ideas or values
Follow-up Letter
Networking
Conflict
Resume
45. First thing an interviewer notices: an applicant's dress - hair - and grooming
Self-Esteem
Stockholder
Tuition
Appearance
46. Any information about possible job openings
Business Plan
Base Pay
Skill
Job lead
47. To buy in bulk form wi the intent to resell by the case
Goods
Decision-Making Process
Wholesale
Information Technology
48. A definition of work duties
Laws of supply and demand
Bi-Weekly Pay
Job Description
Networking
49. Worldwide financial management system
Global Economy
Marketing Sales and Service
Net pay
ArkOscar
50. Using People in foreign countries to assemble parts; utilizing external resources - and saving labor costs
Post-secondary education
Job
Outsourcing
Stockholder