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Career Vocab
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Subject
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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. Worldwide financial management system
Career Goal
Global Economy
Retailing
Listening Skills
2. Time an employee may take off work with pay
Job Outlook
Bi-Weekly Pay
Annual Leave
Union dues
3. Earnings above base pay
Human Services
Classifieds
Overtime
Work Values
4. The way in which a person views their own self-worth
Tentative Decision
Priortize
Self-Concept
On-the-job training (OJT)
5. Tangible merchandise that you can see and touch
Contract Labor
Persistent
Arts Audio-Video Technology and Communications
Goods
6. Cluster that involves services involving lodging - entertainment - recreation - and travel; food and beverage management
Hospitality and Tourism
Base Pay
Entry-Level Jobs
Stock
7. The prospect for the future of a job or career
Government and Public Administration
Employment Outlook
Occupation
Fee
8. A belief - understanding - and recognition of one's own abilities
Internship
Self-Esteem
Temporary Jobs
Business Management and Administration
9. The surrounding physical conditions of a workplace
Corporation
Health Science
Work Environment
Temporary Jobs
10. Hearing - learning - and retaining verbal information
Specializing
Vocational
Internet
Listening Skills
11. To give up something to resolve a conflict
Career cluster
Compromise
Classifieds
Self-Concept
12. The personality or activity by which a person is known
Identity
Interest
Compromise
Values Compromise
13. Learning on the job
Listening
Career
On-the-job training (OJT)
Punctuality
14. Collection of information about oneself
Temporary Jobs
Evaluate
Profit
Career Portfolio
15. Agreement to complete a job for an amount of money
Contract Labor
Loss
Temporary Jobs
Research
16. First thing an interviewer notices: an applicant's dress - hair - and grooming
Education/Training Requirements
Finance
Fringe benefits
Appearance
17. The thing a person enjoys doing or thinking about
Consumer
Contract Labor
Interest
Vocational
18. A formal meeting between an employer and job applicant about a job opening
Deduction
Seasonal Work
Interview
Marketing Sales and Service
19. Earnings below the cost of doing business
Loss
Associate degree
Reference
Decision-Making Process
20. Business owned by one person
Tentative Decision
Free Enterprise System
Personality
Sole Proprietorship
21. Natural method or way one thinks or learns
Decision
Learning Style
Co-worker
Specializing
22. A person who organizes - manages - and assumes the risk of a business
Career cluster
Decision-Making Process
Entrepreneur
Deduction
23. Being on time for work
Plan
Help-wanted ads
Punctuality
Personality Trait
24. Business owned by many people but treated by the law as though it were one person
First impression
Corporation
Co-worker
Professional
25. Instant opinion - based on certain clues - such as the way you look - act - and talk
First impression
Stockholder
Employment Agency
Year-to-date earnings
26. Amount of money taken from an employee's gross pay for taxes - insurance - social security - and other benefits
Deduction
Seasonal Work
Bi-Weekly Pay
Resource
27. Commoney known as Social Security
Aptitude
Scholarships
Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA)
Discrimination
28. A program where a person learns to do a certain job by working with a skilled worker
Apprenticeship
Assessment
Employment Agency
Goal
29. A certificate of completion awarded to a person after completing a program of study in a particular area - usually lasting 2 years
Retailing
Working Conditions
Commission
Associate degree
30. When two or more companies rival for consumer dollars
Competition
Demographics
Resume
On-the-job training (OJT)
31. Average expected earnings from beginning to experienced pay
Salary Range
Law Public Safety and Security
Law of Demand
Appearance
32. Work that a person does for pay
Job
Entrepreneur
Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA)
Career
33. To look at closely and judge
Evaluate
Outsourcing
Global Economy
Financial aid
34. Business which two or more people own and operate
Employment Agency
Government and Public Administration
Discrimination
Partnership
35. Cluster that involves developing - promoting - and providing goods to consumers; performing tasks for consumers
Marketing Sales and Service
Economy
Work
Listening Skills
36. To find out more by reading and talking to people
Business Management and Administration
Salary Range
Research
Check Stub
37. The use of goods or service to make life easier creating new jobs while eliminating others
Graduate school
Technology
Decision-Making Process
Payroll
38. To buy in bulk form wi the intent to resell by the case
Job Shadowing
Wholesale
Job Duty
Work Values
39. Determining the best way for an individual to study - remember - or learn
Attitude
Follow-up Letter
Study Skills
Loss
40. The planning and using of time
Related Occupations
Orientation
Wholesale
Time Management
41. A skill that you have developed
Ability
Technical
Work Environment
Sick Leave
42. Cluster that involves the science of maintaining and improving people's physical and mental well-being
Health Science
Services
Bi-Weekly Pay
Elective
43. A computerized career information delivery system
ArkOscar
Gross pay
Vendor
Procrastinator
44. An assessment that helps people identify their interest areas
Follow-up Letter
Interest Inventory
Related Occupations
Health Science
45. Units of measurement which schools use to determine whether or not students are progressing toward graduation
Ability
Credit
Work Values
Global Economy
46. Something one wants to obtain in the near future generally less than 5 years
Retailing
Time Management
Global Economy
Short-Term Goal
47. A group of employees
Entry-Level Jobs
Personnel
Volunteering
Classifieds
48. Generally 40 Hour work week or more
Full-Time Job
Business Plan
Tentative Decision
Commission
49. Payment for work - usually figured by the hour
Gross pay
Wage
Credit
Business Plan
50. The combination of attitude - values - interests - and behaviors that identify a person
Personality
Lifestyle
Follow-up Letter
Attitude