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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. Determining the best way for an individual to study - remember - or learn
Overtime
Internship
Study Skills
Internet
2. A course or program that teaches job skills
Vocational
Internet
Reference
Career cluster
3. Jobs or careers belonging to the same group on the basis of similar knowledge and skills
Related Occupations
Internship
Marketing Sales and Service
Demographics
4. The thing a person enjoys doing or thinking about
Full-Time Job
Aptitude
Brain Orientation
Interest
5. The prospect for the future of a job or career
Salary
Personality Trait
Employment Outlook
Post-secondary education
6. To eliminate unwanted applicants
Screen out
First impression
Procedure
Wage
7. The person who has hires someone to do a job
Employer
Economy
Temporary Jobs
Part-Time Jobs
8. Tangible merchandise that you can see and touch
ArkOscar
Producer
Net pay
Goods
9. 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
Values
Goal
Decision-Making Process
Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics
10. Money accounted for from January 1st through the current pay period
Punctuality
Manufacturing
Sick Leave
Year-to-date earnings
11. A belief - understanding - and recognition of one's own abilities
Financial aid
Career Goal
Self-Esteem
Job lead
12. The steps one takes to make the best decision
Decision-Making Process
Self-Esteem
Net pay
Self-Concept
13. The use of goods or service to make life easier creating new jobs while eliminating others
Career cluster
Resource
Competition
Technology
14. A share of the ownership in a company
Internet
Reference
Stock
Listening Skills
15. Following a person on the job to learn job duties and responsibilities
ArkOscar
Long-Term Goal
Gross pay
Job Shadowing
16. Standard minimum pay received by an employee
Base Pay
Listening
Resume
Bi-Weekly Pay
17. 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
Scholarships
Prerequisite
Short-Term Goal
18. When a person has to give up part of something they value to resolve a conflict
Help-wanted ads
Values Compromise
Listening
Annual Leave
19. An individual characterstic that helps one determine their personality
ArkOscar
Personality Trait
Assessment
Stock
20. The instructional background and skills needed to qualify for employment
Base Pay
Education/Training Requirements
Letter of Application
Bi-Weekly Pay
21. Jobs that last for a limited period of time
Screen out
Full-Time Job
Technical
Temporary Jobs
22. A long term work plan including education - training - and experience
OOH (Occupational Outlook Handbook)
Assessment
Career Goal
Compromise
23. Jobs or occupations grouped together because of similar knowledge or skills
Career cluster
Goods
Tentative Decision
Priortize
24. An introductory letter written to a prospective employer
Salary
Letter of Application
Prerequisite
Evaluate
25. notices that employers put in the classified section of the paper describing their job openings
Education and Training
Tentative Decision
Credit
Help-wanted ads
26. The personality or activity by which a person is known
Seasonal Work
Partnership
Bachelor's degree
Identity
27. Characteristics or make-up of a population
Evaluate
Demographics
Deduction
On-the-job training (OJT)
28. Using People in foreign countries to assemble parts; utilizing external resources - and saving labor costs
Personality Trait
Outsourcing
Information Technology
ArkOscar
29. First thing an interviewer notices: an applicant's dress - hair - and grooming
Research
Government and Public Administration
Appearance
Stockholder
30. Personal standards by which one lives
Values
Tentative Decision
Punctuality
Entrepreneur
31. Units of measurement which schools use to determine whether or not students are progressing toward graduation
Credit
Co-worker
Job
Job Description
32. Anything a person has or uses to reach a goal
Application form
Resource
Wholesale
Tentative Decision
33. Fixed amount of money earned - regardless of hours worked; pay that is calculated exactly the same for every check
Salary
Punctuality
Time Management
Career Action Plan
34. A program where a person learns to do a certain job by working with a skilled worker
Apprenticeship
Evaluate
Wholesale
Personnel
35. Help-wanted section of the newspaper that lists job openings
Commission
Law of Supply
Classifieds
Workforce diversity
36. A person who works with you
Wage
Co-worker
Demographics
Agriculture Food and Natural Resources
37. Someone who sells goods or services
Volunteering
Fee
Vendor
Values
38. A person who organizes - manages - and assumes the risk of a business
Entrepreneur
Vendor
GED certificate
Values Compromise
39. A formal meeting between an employer and job applicant about a job opening
Base Pay
Education/Training Requirements
Interview
Learning Style
40. Money received for education that does not have to be repaid
Scholarships
Personality
Global Economy
Full-Time Job
41. To make a plan or arrange things that must be done
Vocational
Manufacturing
Study Skills
Schedule
42. Rules of behavior in the workplace
Brain Orientation
Outsourcing
Work ethic
Job lead
43. A productive activity resulting in something useful
Human Services
Career cluster
Work
Bachelor's degree
44. Part of the paycheck that shows earnings and deductions
Skill
Tentative Decision
Check Stub
Listening
45. Worldwide financial management system
Sick Leave
Occupation
Global Economy
Vocational
46. Undertaking or venture to make more with risk
Vocational
Enterprise
Related Occupations
Lifestyle
47. Cluster that involves services involving lodging - entertainment - recreation - and travel; food and beverage management
Learning Style
Hospitality and Tourism
Free Enterprise System
Arts Audio-Video Technology and Communications
48. Continuing for a long period of time to accomplish a task
Plan
Persistent
Bachelor's degree
ArkOscar
49. Jobs with similiar work actvities
Full-Time Job
Transportation - Distribution - and Logistics
Career Interest Area
Reference
50. To give up something to resolve a conflict
Compromise
Listening Skills
Career cluster
Sick Leave