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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. Cluster that involves designing - building - and repairing structures
Architecture and Construction
Specializing
Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics
Law of Demand
2. An occupation one is well-suited or qualified for
Vocation
Career Ladder
Personality Trait
OOH (Occupational Outlook Handbook)
3. Work that a person does for pay
Applicant
Assessment
Job
Apprenticeship
4. Instant opinion - based on certain clues - such as the way you look - act - and talk
Credit
Deduction
First impression
Job Shadowing
5. A plan of action for education - training - and experience to reach a career goal
Check Stub
Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics
Career Ladder
Sick Leave
6. Cluster that involves services that improve people's quality of life and promote safe - healthy communities
Employment Agency
Human Services
Volunteering
Screen out
7. Careful use of resources including money and materials
Economy
Brain Orientation
Wholesale
Interview
8. Someone who purchases a good or service with the intent to use it
Professional
Law of Supply
Personality
Consumer
9. The need for workers in a particular occupation or field
Related Occupations
Career
Orientation
Job Market
10. Natural method or way one thinks or learns
Enterprise
Learning Style
Vocational
Technical
11. Amount of money taken from an employee's gross pay for taxes - insurance - social security - and other benefits
Deduction
Contract Labor
Research
Post-secondary education
12. Commoney known as Social Security
Job Market
Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA)
Skill
Interview
13. A personal evaluation to help you make decisions
Assessment
Networking
Career Goal
Decision
14. 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
Work Environment
Free Enterprise System
Commission
Job Description
15. An objective that a person wants to obtain and works to achieve
Goal
Attitude
Temporary Jobs
Listening
16. A person's outlook on life - usually positive or negative
Career Portfolio
Specializing
Evaluate
Attitude
17. Continuing for a long period of time to accomplish a task
Fee
Temporary Jobs
Screen out
Persistent
18. To buy in bulk form wi the intent to resell by the case
Wholesale
Resume
Letter of Application
Temporary Jobs
19. Cluster that involves designing and producing materials into intermediate or final products
Manufacturing
Work ethic
Career Action Plan
Temporary Jobs
20. Characteristics or make-up of a population
Work Environment
Agriculture Food and Natural Resources
Part-Time Jobs
Demographics
21. When a person has to give up part of something they value to resolve a conflict
Manufacturing
Competition
Values Compromise
ArkOscar
22. Cluster that involves coordinating the movement of people - goods - and services; career cluster - jobs or occupations grouped together because of similar knowledge or skills
Government and Public Administration
Human Services
Transportation - Distribution - and Logistics
Demographics
23. A belief - understanding - and recognition of one's own abilities
Post-secondary education
Personality Type
Self-Esteem
Co-worker
24. 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
Agriculture Food and Natural Resources
Specializing
Related Occupations
Attitude
25. A person who owns stock in a company
Consumer
Corporation
Stockholder
Personnel
26. The ability or potential for learning new skills
Check Stub
Aptitude
Punctuality
Salary
27. A decision or plan that can be changed
Qualification
Tentative Decision
Business Management and Administration
Compromise
28. A certificate of completion awarded to a person after completing a program of study in a particular area - usually lasting 2 years
Employer
Aptitude
Associate degree
Graduate school
29. 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
Vocation
Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics
Hospitality and Tourism
Plan
30. Occupational Information Network compiled by the United States Department of Labor
O*Net
Tuition
Finance
Competition
31. Jobs or occupations grouped together because of similar knowledge or skills
Wholesale
Specializing
Follow-up Letter
Career cluster
32. Jobs requiring less than 35-40 hours a week - depending on the employer
Part-Time Jobs
Specializing
Personality
Working Conditions
33. A person who organizes - manages - and assumes the risk of a business
Annual Leave
Punctuality
Base Pay
Entrepreneur
34. A specialized scientific work in manufacturing and industry
Employment Outlook
Bi-Weekly Pay
Time Management
Technical
35. Relating to races or groups of people with common customs
Ethnic
Union dues
Law of Supply
Decision
36. Salary of wages given to an employee on a regular basis
Law of Supply
Net pay
Employer
Payroll
37. Fixed amount of money earned - regardless of hours worked; pay that is calculated exactly the same for every check
Job
GED certificate
Salary
First impression
38. The planning and using of time
Time Management
Help-wanted ads
First impression
Application form
39. An assessment that helps people identify their interest areas
Interest Inventory
Values Compromise
Time Management
Law Public Safety and Security
40. Units of measurement which schools use to determine whether or not students are progressing toward graduation
Personnel
Aptitude
Part-Time Jobs
Credit
41. Money earned above the cost of doing business
Technical
Demographics
Payroll
Profit
42. Being on time for work
Career Action Plan
Punctuality
Arts Audio-Video Technology and Communications
Qualification
43. Cluster that involves protective and legal services
Law Public Safety and Security
Classifieds
Check Stub
Post-secondary education
44. The choice between two or more possibilities
Net pay
Decision
Fee
Ability
45. A definition of work duties
Evaluate
Employer
Job Description
Self-Esteem
46. Personal standards by which one lives
Personality Type
Entrepreneur
Work ethic
Values
47. Rules of behavior in the workplace
Work ethic
Overtime
Career Interest Area
Health Science
48. As the prices decreases producers purchase more
Prerequisite
Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics
Law of Demand
Assessment
49. The amount of a paycheck after the deductions are taken out
Screen out
Retailing
Temporary Jobs
Net pay
50. A resource that involves communicating information with others
Networking
Work
Annual Leave
Personnel