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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. Standard minimum pay received by an employee
Resource
Base Pay
Full-Time Job
Work Values
2. Cluster that involves developing - promoting - and providing goods to consumers; performing tasks for consumers
Self-Concept
Brain Orientation
Interview
Marketing Sales and Service
3. To give up something to resolve a conflict
Classifieds
Tuition
Compromise
Time Management
4. A course that is not required but can be chosen by a student according to their interests
Ethnic
Temporary Jobs
Corporation
Elective
5. The need for workers in a particular occupation or field
Self-Esteem
ArkOscar
Agriculture Food and Natural Resources
Job Market
6. Natural method or way one thinks or learns
Internship
Vocational
Learning Style
OOH (Occupational Outlook Handbook)
7. A program of study beyond a bachelor's degree
O*Net
Graduate school
Stock
Salary Range
8. Someone who creates a good or service
Credit
Procrastinator
Producer
Entry-Level Jobs
9. A person who organizes - manages - and assumes the risk of a business
Work
Entrepreneur
Screen out
Full-Time Job
10. Collection of information about oneself
Sole Proprietorship
Priortize
Self-Concept
Career Portfolio
11. Clash of ideas or values
Demographics
Conflict
Volunteering
Study Skills
12. A group of workers who collectively bargin for higher wages - improved benefits - and better working conditions
Skill
Risk
Stockholder
Union
13. Using People in foreign countries to assemble parts; utilizing external resources - and saving labor costs
Wage
Outsourcing
Technical
Values Compromise
14. Following a person on the job to learn job duties and responsibilities
Job Shadowing
Research
Transportation - Distribution - and Logistics
Payroll
15. The environment of the workplace
Working Conditions
Skill
Career Goal
Risk
16. The course of action one decides to take at the end of the decision-making process
Semi-monthly Pay
Plan
Check Stub
Technology
17. As the prices decreases producers purchase more
Bi-Weekly Pay
Screen out
Law of Demand
Bachelor's degree
18. When two or more companies rival for consumer dollars
Job Market
Vendor
Competition
Tuition
19. Possibility of loss
Priortize
Job lead
Work Environment
Risk
20. Cluster that involves services involving lodging - entertainment - recreation - and travel; food and beverage management
Fee
Hospitality and Tourism
Business Plan
Architecture and Construction
21. Cluster that involves computer and Web-based services; telecommunications services
Job Shadowing
Study Skills
Sole Proprietorship
Information Technology
22. The tool that employers use to find out basic information about job applicants
Application form
OOH (Occupational Outlook Handbook)
Contract Labor
Attitude
23. Part of the paycheck that shows earnings and deductions
Check Stub
Interest
Qualification
Law of Demand
24. A service business designed to help put employees and employers together
Employment Agency
Sick Leave
Discrimination
Personality Type
25. Cluster that involves designing and producing materials into intermediate or final products
Hospitality and Tourism
Manufacturing
Resource
Career Goal
26. Cluster that involves acquiring - investing - and managing money
Work Environment
Finance
Entry-Level Jobs
Specializing
27. Way in which one uses or utilitizes the brain best
Law of Supply
Career Goal
Brain Orientation
Work
28. The steps one takes to make the best decision
Specializing
Hospitality and Tourism
Decision-Making Process
Temporary Jobs
29. An objective that a person wants to obtain and works to achieve
Bi-Weekly Pay
Resource
Sick Leave
Goal
30. Pay that is based upon the percentage of sales
Tuition
Commission
Appearance
Priortize
31. Receiving a paycheck every other Friday
Interest Inventory
Values
Credit
Bi-Weekly Pay
32. Buying a finished good or service with the intent to resell it by the unit
Retailing
Wholesale
Annual Leave
Values
33. Fixed amount of money earned - regardless of hours worked; pay that is calculated exactly the same for every check
Job Duty
Salary
Marketing Sales and Service
Stockholder
34. Salary of wages given to an employee on a regular basis
Payroll
Tuition
Career
Workforce diversity
35. Fees charged by an organization to unite employees
Job Description
Enterprise
Union dues
Volunteering
36. Instant opinion - based on certain clues - such as the way you look - act - and talk
First impression
Job Duty
Tuition
Work
37. Cluster that involves designing - building - and repairing structures
Career Interest Area
Graduate school
Consumer
Architecture and Construction
38. Cluster that involves the science of maintaining and improving people's physical and mental well-being
O*Net
Associate degree
Short-Term Goal
Health Science
39. Any information about possible job openings
Government and Public Administration
Job lead
Study Skills
Temporary Jobs
40. Learning on the job
GED certificate
Contract Labor
Temporary Jobs
On-the-job training (OJT)
41. A thank you letter written following an interview
Temporary Jobs
Career Goal
Follow-up Letter
Specializing
42. A computerized career information delivery system
Long-Term Goal
ArkOscar
GED certificate
Technical
43. An introductory letter written to a prospective employer
Application form
Outsourcing
Job Outlook
Letter of Application
44. The use of goods or service to make life easier creating new jobs while eliminating others
Technology
Letter of Application
Enterprise
Semi-monthly Pay
45. An occupation one is well-suited or qualified for
Plan
Business Plan
Stock
Vocation
46. Jobs or careers belonging to the same group on the basis of similar knowledge and skills
Study Skills
Specializing
Related Occupations
Job lead
47. To find out more by reading and talking to people
Research
Temporary Jobs
Finance
Contract Labor
48. Any education or training following high school
Aptitude
Finance
Volunteering
Post-secondary education
49. Someone who purchases a good or service with the intent to use it
Career Ladder
Evaluate
Consumer
Corporation
50. The choice between two or more possibilities
Decision
Post-secondary education
Technology
Seasonal Work