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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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1. An action or series of actions determined by an employer for a specific process
Salary Range
Learning Style
Procedure
Work Values
2. 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
Goal
Free Enterprise System
Career cluster
Lifestyle
3. When two or more companies rival for consumer dollars
Competition
Corporation
GED certificate
Services
4. one who puts off doing things or making decisions
Health Science
Hospitality and Tourism
Procrastinator
Union dues
5. Someone who creates a good or service
Producer
First impression
Net pay
Workforce diversity
6. Treating someone unfairly because of his or her race - religion - or sex
Education and Training
Year-to-date earnings
Personality Trait
Discrimination
7. Careful use of resources including money and materials
Information Technology
Occupation
Economy
Short-Term Goal
8. The prospect for the future of a job or career
Career cluster
Employment Outlook
Career Portfolio
Career
9. A belief - understanding - and recognition of one's own abilities
Job Outlook
Services
Technology
Self-Esteem
10. A person who organizes - manages - and assumes the risk of a business
Business Plan
Entrepreneur
Career Portfolio
Entry-Level Jobs
11. A person applying for a job
Bachelor's degree
Finance
Hospitality and Tourism
Applicant
12. Cluster that involves the science of maintaining and improving people's physical and mental well-being
Networking
Ethnic
Health Science
Conflict
13. Cluster that involves acquiring - investing - and managing money
Lifestyle
Appearance
Classifieds
Finance
14. Business owned by one person
Goal
Resume
Sole Proprietorship
Appearance
15. A decision or plan that can be changed
Base Pay
On-the-job training (OJT)
Punctuality
Tentative Decision
16. The need for workers in a particular occupation or field
Job Market
Work ethic
Human Services
Education and Training
17. Payment for work - usually figured by the hour
Risk
Career
Wage
Consumer
18. Any information about possible job openings
Profit
Job lead
Vocational
Personality Type
19. Hearing - learning - and retaining verbal information
Listening Skills
Qualification
Working Conditions
Commission
20. Using People in foreign countries to assemble parts; utilizing external resources - and saving labor costs
Outsourcing
Resource
Law of Demand
Base Pay
21. Way in which one uses or utilitizes the brain best
Gross pay
Prerequisite
Listening Skills
Brain Orientation
22. When a person has to give up part of something they value to resolve a conflict
Annual Leave
Research
Values Compromise
Ability
23. The fee that colleges charge to take their classes
Tuition
Sole Proprietorship
Internet
Vocation
24. The computer network system through which information can be shared on the World Wide Web
Wholesale
Internet
Values
Seasonal Work
25. The thing a person enjoys doing or thinking about
Interest
Co-worker
Priortize
Education and Training
26. Characteristics or make-up of a population
Screen out
Help-wanted ads
Demographics
Loss
27. Relating to races or groups of people with common customs
Ethnic
Seasonal Work
Resume
Job Shadowing
28. Buying a finished good or service with the intent to resell it by the unit
Internship
Learning Style
Competition
Retailing
29. Money accounted for from January 1st through the current pay period
Work Environment
Graduate school
Year-to-date earnings
Health Science
30. Instant opinion - based on certain clues - such as the way you look - act - and talk
Wage
First impression
Interest Inventory
Entry-Level Jobs
31. A resource that involves communicating information with others
Career Action Plan
Ability
Networking
Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA)
32. Cluster that involves developing - promoting - and providing goods to consumers; performing tasks for consumers
Commission
Qualification
Marketing Sales and Service
Deduction
33. Possibility of loss
Human Services
Risk
Career Portfolio
Resource
34. The use of goods or service to make life easier creating new jobs while eliminating others
Personality Trait
Global Economy
Lifestyle
Technology
35. Rules of behavior in the workplace
Services
Evaluate
Union
Work ethic
36. Cluster that involves designing and producing materials into intermediate or final products
Attitude
Marketing Sales and Service
Schedule
Manufacturing
37. Money earned above the cost of doing business
Education/Training Requirements
Employment Agency
Associate degree
Profit
38. A plan which includes the education and training requirements to reach a career goal
Career Action Plan
Punctuality
Co-worker
Decision
39. As the prices decreases producers purchase more
Law of Demand
Priortize
Producer
O*Net
40. Cumulative time given to employees for personal or family illness with pay
GED certificate
Screen out
Marketing Sales and Service
Sick Leave
41. Jobs that last for a limited period of time
Fee
Education/Training Requirements
Temporary Jobs
Deduction
42. Being on time for work
Work Values
Punctuality
Laws of supply and demand
Interview
43. Continuing for a long period of time to accomplish a task
Prerequisite
Persistent
Plan
Seasonal Work
44. Intangible work done for others as an occupation
Union
Prerequisite
Temporary Jobs
Services
45. Jobs with similiar work actvities
Self-Esteem
Career Interest Area
Decision
Occupation
46. A formal meeting between an employer and job applicant about a job opening
Interview
Internship
Contract Labor
Related Occupations
47. A long term work plan including education - training - and experience
Persistent
Values Compromise
Career Goal
Resume
48. A special skill - knowledge - or ability that enables a person to perform a particular job
Government and Public Administration
Attitude
Qualification
Commission
49. Generally 40 Hour work week or more
Manufacturing
Annual Leave
Full-Time Job
Global Economy
50. Something a person wants to acheive later in life requiring much planning
O*Net
Long-Term Goal
Procedure
Risk