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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. Acquaint or become familiar with a new situation
Orientation
Manufacturing
Career Portfolio
Networking
2. The course of action one decides to take at the end of the decision-making process
Financial aid
Plan
Personality Type
Contract Labor
3. A formal meeting between an employer and job applicant about a job opening
Bachelor's degree
Employment Outlook
Semi-monthly Pay
Interview
4. Receiving a paycheck every other Friday
Interest Inventory
Attitude
Bi-Weekly Pay
Applicant
5. Cluster that involves regulating and managing local - state - and federal government
Government and Public Administration
Gross pay
Competition
Full-Time Job
6. Someone who purchases a good or service with the intent to use it
Full-Time Job
Consumer
Partnership
Volunteering
7. Units of measurement which schools use to determine whether or not students are progressing toward graduation
Work
Compromise
Qualification
Credit
8. Employment during special seasons
Temporary Jobs
Education/Training Requirements
Law of Demand
Personnel
9. Jobs or occupations grouped together because of similar knowledge or skills
OOH (Occupational Outlook Handbook)
Brain Orientation
Post-secondary education
Career cluster
10. Earnings above base pay
Personality Type
Reference
Year-to-date earnings
Overtime
11. A share of the ownership in a company
Graduate school
Commission
Base Pay
Stock
12. A short written description of an applicant's personal data - education - and experience - related to a job
Related Occupations
Procedure
Job Shadowing
Resume
13. The work done over a period of years in one area of interest
Career
Hospitality and Tourism
Career Interest Area
Laws of supply and demand
14. Treating someone unfairly because of his or her race - religion - or sex
Resume
Discrimination
Retailing
First impression
15. Cluster that involves designing - building - and repairing structures
Orientation
Architecture and Construction
Specializing
Work ethic
16. The ability to perform a certain activity well
Work ethic
Orientation
Skill
Demographics
17. Continuing for a long period of time to accomplish a task
Priortize
Persistent
Stock
Entry-Level Jobs
18. An objective that a person wants to obtain and works to achieve
Application form
Brain Orientation
Goal
Consumer
19. Cluster that involves the science of maintaining and improving people's physical and mental well-being
Health Science
Employer
ArkOscar
Vendor
20. A personal evaluation to help you make decisions
Assessment
Internship
Time Management
Vendor
21. Generally 40 Hour work week or more
Punctuality
Post-secondary education
Full-Time Job
Career cluster
22. Learning on the job
Follow-up Letter
Services
GED certificate
On-the-job training (OJT)
23. Hearing - learning - and retaining verbal information
Procedure
Technical
Listening Skills
Consumer
24. To eliminate unwanted applicants
Wage
Applicant
Screen out
Technology
25. notices that employers put in the classified section of the paper describing their job openings
Help-wanted ads
Employer
Screen out
Economy
26. A course or program that teaches job skills
Volunteering
Vocational
Decision-Making Process
Sole Proprietorship
27. Time an employee may take off work with pay
Annual Leave
Identity
Personality Type
Marketing Sales and Service
28. The fee that colleges charge to take their classes
Scholarships
Tuition
Compromise
Job Duty
29. Business owned by many people but treated by the law as though it were one person
Law of Supply
Corporation
Transportation - Distribution - and Logistics
Career
30. A thank you letter written following an interview
Finance
Follow-up Letter
Contract Labor
Job Market
31. The instructional background and skills needed to qualify for employment
Business Plan
Education/Training Requirements
Employment Agency
Graduate school
32. Pay that is based upon the percentage of sales
Related Occupations
Interest Inventory
Letter of Application
Commission
33. The way in which a person views their own self-worth
Health Science
Self-Concept
Job Outlook
Law of Supply
34. Standard minimum pay received by an employee
Annual Leave
Career Interest Area
Education/Training Requirements
Base Pay
35. A description of the goals of a business and how it will operate
Work
Risk
Business Plan
Education/Training Requirements
36. Collection of information about oneself
Job
Career Portfolio
Self-Concept
Evaluate
37. The prospect for the future of a job or career
Overtime
Employment Outlook
Schedule
Post-secondary education
38. 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
Fringe benefits
Job Market
Employment Outlook
Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics
39. When a person has to give up part of something they value to resolve a conflict
Values Compromise
O*Net
Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA)
Check Stub
40. Help-wanted section of the newspaper that lists job openings
Career
Global Economy
Classifieds
Law Public Safety and Security
41. 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
Semi-monthly Pay
Qualification
Free Enterprise System
Personnel
42. Average expected earnings from beginning to experienced pay
ArkOscar
Procrastinator
Salary Range
Professional
43. Fees charged by an organization to unite employees
Ability
Union dues
Corporation
Bi-Weekly Pay
44. A person's outlook on life - usually positive or negative
Attitude
Professional
Outsourcing
Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics
45. A program where a person learns to do a certain job by working with a skilled worker
Consumer
Apprenticeship
Work Values
Qualification
46. Money earned above the cost of doing business
Payroll
Evaluate
Profit
Architecture and Construction
47. Temporary work during the summer
Law of Supply
Seasonal Work
Personality Type
Scholarships
48. The surrounding physical conditions of a workplace
Personnel
Salary
Wholesale
Work Environment
49. A plan which includes the education and training requirements to reach a career goal
Employment Agency
Producer
Stockholder
Career Action Plan
50. A wide variety of workers with different backgrounds - experiences - ideas - and skills in the workplace
Decision
Personality Trait
Profit
Workforce diversity