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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. To look at closely and judge
Agriculture Food and Natural Resources
Screen out
Evaluate
Personnel
2. A belief - understanding - and recognition of one's own abilities
Self-Esteem
Brain Orientation
Self-Concept
Employer
3. A skill that you have developed
Co-worker
Services
Short-Term Goal
Ability
4. First thing an interviewer notices: an applicant's dress - hair - and grooming
Sick Leave
Punctuality
Appearance
Retailing
5. The instructional background and skills needed to qualify for employment
Education and Training
Skill
Education/Training Requirements
Wage
6. A short written description of an applicant's personal data - education - and experience - related to a job
Outsourcing
Resume
Work
Government and Public Administration
7. The thing a person enjoys doing or thinking about
Interest
Business Plan
Wholesale
Resource
8. A person who owns stock in a company
Salary Range
Aptitude
Net pay
Stockholder
9. A definition of work duties
Applicant
Job Description
Arts Audio-Video Technology and Communications
Enterprise
10. The tool that employers use to find out basic information about job applicants
Employer
Credit
Business Management and Administration
Application form
11. Anything a person has or uses to reach a goal
Resource
Job Duty
Employment Outlook
Goods
12. A computerized career information delivery system
ArkOscar
Elective
Human Services
Goods
13. Relating to a specific field with a high degree of skill or experience
Global Economy
Professional
Personality Type
Values Compromise
14. A plan of action for education - training - and experience to reach a career goal
Arts Audio-Video Technology and Communications
Career Ladder
Values Compromise
Graduate school
15. Characteristics or make-up of a population
Demographics
Letter of Application
Internet
Goods
16. Using People in foreign countries to assemble parts; utilizing external resources - and saving labor costs
Work Environment
Temporary Jobs
Self-Concept
Outsourcing
17. Someone who creates a good or service
Self-Concept
On-the-job training (OJT)
Producer
Priortize
18. Units of measurement which schools use to determine whether or not students are progressing toward graduation
Work Environment
OOH (Occupational Outlook Handbook)
Fringe benefits
Credit
19. A long term work plan including education - training - and experience
Career Goal
First impression
Prerequisite
Business Management and Administration
20. The ability to perform a certain activity well
Temporary Jobs
Skill
Time Management
Personality Type
21. An action or series of actions determined by an employer for a specific process
Procedure
Bachelor's degree
Economy
Entry-Level Jobs
22. A person who works with you
Post-secondary education
Internet
Scholarships
Co-worker
23. A resource that involves communicating information with others
Networking
Overtime
Bachelor's degree
Brain Orientation
24. An individual characterstic that helps one determine their personality
Procedure
Finance
Personality Trait
Salary
25. Being on time for work
Working Conditions
Bachelor's degree
Self-Esteem
Punctuality
26. A certificate of completion awarded to a person after completing a program of study in a particular area - usually lasting 2 years
Job lead
Full-Time Job
Appearance
Associate degree
27. Help-wanted section of the newspaper that lists job openings
Priortize
Classifieds
Consumer
Follow-up Letter
28. A plan which includes the education and training requirements to reach a career goal
Help-wanted ads
Specializing
Career Action Plan
Volunteering
29. A course that is required before another course can be taken
Prerequisite
Career Ladder
Related Occupations
Procedure
30. A special skill - knowledge - or ability that enables a person to perform a particular job
Volunteering
Economy
Vocation
Qualification
31. To make a plan or arrange things that must be done
Schedule
Enterprise
Year-to-date earnings
Personality
32. 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
Career Interest Area
Job Shadowing
Goal
Agriculture Food and Natural Resources
33. Rules of behavior in the workplace
Work ethic
Architecture and Construction
Aptitude
Services
34. The planning and using of time
Time Management
ArkOscar
Salary
Education/Training Requirements
35. Possibility of loss
Related Occupations
Part-Time Jobs
Risk
Demographics
36. When two or more companies rival for consumer dollars
GED certificate
Competition
Time Management
Union
37. Hearing - learning - and retaining verbal information
Procrastinator
Career Interest Area
Evaluate
Listening Skills
38. Jobs with similiar work actvities
Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA)
Law Public Safety and Security
Employment Outlook
Career Interest Area
39. Time an employee may take off work with pay
Credit
Loss
Bachelor's degree
Annual Leave
40. Jobs or careers belonging to the same group on the basis of similar knowledge and skills
Listening
Related Occupations
Contract Labor
Wage
41. Money accounted for from January 1st through the current pay period
Bachelor's degree
Year-to-date earnings
Bi-Weekly Pay
Business Management and Administration
42. A group of employees
Work Environment
Gross pay
Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA)
Personnel
43. Learning on the job
Lifestyle
Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA)
On-the-job training (OJT)
Transportation - Distribution - and Logistics
44. Jobs requiring less than 35-40 hours a week - depending on the employer
Letter of Application
Listening Skills
Part-Time Jobs
Contract Labor
45. Instant opinion - based on certain clues - such as the way you look - act - and talk
First impression
Occupation
Qualification
Employer
46. A specialized scientific work in manufacturing and industry
Union dues
Demographics
Annual Leave
Technical
47. The future prospects for employment in a particular job or field
Volunteering
Help-wanted ads
Decision
Job Outlook
48. This involves hearing - thinking about and responding to what the speaker is saying
Interest Inventory
Semi-monthly Pay
Listening
Loss
49. Cluster that involves designing and producing materials into intermediate or final products
Contract Labor
Specializing
Manufacturing
Compromise
50. Cumulative time given to employees for personal or family illness with pay
Job Shadowing
Architecture and Construction
Base Pay
Sick Leave