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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. Rules of behavior in the workplace
Temporary Jobs
Bi-Weekly Pay
Sole Proprietorship
Work ethic
2. Relating to races or groups of people with common customs
Finance
Apprenticeship
Values Compromise
Ethnic
3. This involves hearing - thinking about and responding to what the speaker is saying
Listening
Career
Law of Supply
Producer
4. A person who owns stock in a company
Aptitude
Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA)
Retailing
Stockholder
5. Occupational Information Network compiled by the United States Department of Labor
Procedure
Lifestyle
Workforce diversity
O*Net
6. A course that is required before another course can be taken
Vendor
Health Science
Personnel
Prerequisite
7. Learning on the job
On-the-job training (OJT)
Entrepreneur
Networking
Salary
8. A decision or plan that can be changed
Goods
Tentative Decision
Union dues
Employment Outlook
9. A group of workers who collectively bargin for higher wages - improved benefits - and better working conditions
Career
Base Pay
Full-Time Job
Union
10. Cluster that involves providing education and training services; providing support services
Education and Training
Tuition
Classifieds
Work ethic
11. A program where a person learns to do a certain job by working with a skilled worker
Job
Apprenticeship
Fee
Study Skills
12. Relating to a specific field with a high degree of skill or experience
ArkOscar
Professional
Lifestyle
Personnel
13. As the price increases producers produce more
Goods
Risk
Brain Orientation
Law of Supply
14. Units of measurement which schools use to determine whether or not students are progressing toward graduation
Marketing Sales and Service
Career Action Plan
Career Interest Area
Credit
15. A free flowing economy based upon the laws of supply and demand to allow individuals or companies to buy and sell goods and/or services at a profit
Credit
Free Enterprise System
Job Outlook
Demographics
16. The surrounding physical conditions of a workplace
Technology
Associate degree
Base Pay
Work Environment
17. A book used for researching the most common careers in the United States
Career Interest Area
Procedure
Commission
OOH (Occupational Outlook Handbook)
18. The planning and using of time
Temporary Jobs
Classifieds
Time Management
Union
19. Cumulative time given to employees for personal or family illness with pay
Sick Leave
Listening Skills
Career Portfolio
Employment Agency
20. Cluster that involves designing and producing materials into intermediate or final products
Manufacturing
Appearance
Corporation
Lifestyle
21. Payment for work - usually figured by the hour
Wage
Information Technology
Job Duty
Listening
22. 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
Conflict
Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics
Classifieds
Professional
23. The use of goods or service to make life easier creating new jobs while eliminating others
Finance
Attitude
Technology
Business Plan
24. Earnings paid twice a month on designated dates
Career Ladder
Part-Time Jobs
O*Net
Semi-monthly Pay
25. Focusing or concentrating in a particular skill
Education and Training
Personnel
Full-Time Job
Specializing
26. Jobs that last for a limited period of time
Compromise
Arts Audio-Video Technology and Communications
Gross pay
Temporary Jobs
27. Cluster that involves services that improve people's quality of life and promote safe - healthy communities
Deduction
Resume
Human Services
Global Economy
28. Buying a finished good or service with the intent to resell it by the unit
Application form
Producer
Retailing
Stock
29. A service business designed to help put employees and employers together
Personnel
Temporary Jobs
Job lead
Employment Agency
30. To find out more by reading and talking to people
Research
Letter of Application
Financial aid
Screen out
31. 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
Professional
Services
Persistent
32. The instructional background and skills needed to qualify for employment
Education/Training Requirements
Work Values
Apprenticeship
Employment Agency
33. Cluster that involves services involving lodging - entertainment - recreation - and travel; food and beverage management
Hospitality and Tourism
Marketing Sales and Service
Associate degree
Discrimination
34. Salary of wages given to an employee on a regular basis
Payroll
Semi-monthly Pay
Information Technology
Finance
35. Cluster that involves computer and Web-based services; telecommunications services
Job Description
Contract Labor
Information Technology
Retailing
36. The computer network system through which information can be shared on the World Wide Web
Agriculture Food and Natural Resources
Career Interest Area
Internet
Goal
37. The jobs that beginners start with to train them for higher-level jobs
Full-Time Job
Contract Labor
Entry-Level Jobs
Orientation
38. To give up something to resolve a conflict
Compromise
Net pay
Corporation
Procrastinator
39. Jobs or occupations grouped together because of similar knowledge or skills
Tentative Decision
Priortize
Professional
Career cluster
40. Instant opinion - based on certain clues - such as the way you look - act - and talk
Personnel
First impression
Finance
Stockholder
41. Any education or training following high school
Brain Orientation
Transportation - Distribution - and Logistics
Post-secondary education
Global Economy
42. Continuing for a long period of time to accomplish a task
Job Shadowing
Persistent
Vocation
Tentative Decision
43. A long term work plan including education - training - and experience
Career Goal
Consumer
Job
Procrastinator
44. The choice between two or more possibilities
Job Shadowing
Decision
Hospitality and Tourism
Vendor
45. Jobs or careers belonging to the same group on the basis of similar knowledge and skills
Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA)
Working Conditions
Related Occupations
Short-Term Goal
46. Way in which one uses or utilitizes the brain best
On-the-job training (OJT)
ArkOscar
Payroll
Brain Orientation
47. Natural method or way one thinks or learns
Finance
Work ethic
Plan
Learning Style
48. Extras provided by employers (other than wages)
Sole Proprietorship
Fringe benefits
Workforce diversity
Bi-Weekly Pay
49. An assessment that helps people identify their interest areas
Work Values
Short-Term Goal
Interest Inventory
Priortize
50. The ability or potential for learning new skills
Aptitude
Transportation - Distribution - and Logistics
Tuition
Salary Range