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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. To make a plan or arrange things that must be done
Check Stub
Career Goal
Schedule
Wage
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
Law Public Safety and Security
Entry-Level Jobs
Career
Free Enterprise System
3. Treating someone unfairly because of his or her race - religion - or sex
Entry-Level Jobs
Scholarships
Discrimination
Bachelor's degree
4. Help-wanted section of the newspaper that lists job openings
Salary Range
Plan
Classifieds
Vendor
5. Temporary work during the summer
Resume
Outsourcing
Seasonal Work
Apprenticeship
6. A temporary paid or unpaid position that involves direct work experience in a career field
Internship
Enterprise
Full-Time Job
Letter of Application
7. Learning on the job
Long-Term Goal
Employment Agency
On-the-job training (OJT)
Sole Proprietorship
8. Way in which one uses or utilitizes the brain best
Working Conditions
Stockholder
Marketing Sales and Service
Brain Orientation
9. To look at closely and judge
Marketing Sales and Service
Information Technology
Evaluate
Job Description
10. Someone who sells goods or services
Government and Public Administration
Skill
Vendor
Ethnic
11. A program where a person learns to do a certain job by working with a skilled worker
Vocational
Apprenticeship
Employer
Salary
12. Pay that is based upon the percentage of sales
Career cluster
Contract Labor
Commission
Employment Outlook
13. To buy in bulk form wi the intent to resell by the case
Union dues
Technical
Procedure
Wholesale
14. The person who has hires someone to do a job
Listening
Graduate school
Plan
Employer
15. Cluster that involves designing - building - and repairing structures
Post-secondary education
Temporary Jobs
Architecture and Construction
Associate degree
16. A thank you letter written following an interview
Listening Skills
Health Science
Producer
Follow-up Letter
17. The amount of a paycheck after the deductions are taken out
Brain Orientation
Laws of supply and demand
Net pay
Working Conditions
18. Intangible work done for others as an occupation
Wage
Services
Interview
Listening
19. A personal evaluation to help you make decisions
Decision
Free Enterprise System
Assessment
Scholarships
20. Jobs that last for a limited period of time
Deduction
Qualification
Fee
Temporary Jobs
21. Rules of behavior in the workplace
Punctuality
Learning Style
Reference
Work ethic
22. Continuing for a long period of time to accomplish a task
Retailing
Study Skills
Persistent
Government and Public Administration
23. Money earned above the cost of doing business
Wholesale
Entry-Level Jobs
Profit
Appearance
24. A special skill - knowledge - or ability that enables a person to perform a particular job
Qualification
Letter of Application
Associate degree
Time Management
25. Undertaking or venture to make more with risk
ArkOscar
Manufacturing
Overtime
Enterprise
26. Someone who creates a good or service
Base Pay
Employer
Classifieds
Producer
27. An action or series of actions determined by an employer for a specific process
Information Technology
Stockholder
Procedure
Health Science
28. As the prices decreases producers purchase more
Law of Demand
Part-Time Jobs
Procrastinator
Classifieds
29. one who puts off doing things or making decisions
Law of Demand
Manufacturing
Post-secondary education
Procrastinator
30. Following a person on the job to learn job duties and responsibilities
Credit
Learning Style
Stockholder
Job Shadowing
31. Hearing - learning - and retaining verbal information
Internet
Career Interest Area
Scholarships
Listening Skills
32. A person who works with you
Sole Proprietorship
Co-worker
Wage
Temporary Jobs
33. The ability to perform a certain activity well
Listening Skills
Job Outlook
Skill
Schedule
34. A belief - understanding - and recognition of one's own abilities
Global Economy
Demographics
ArkOscar
Self-Esteem
35. Any education or training following high school
Post-secondary education
Financial aid
Classifieds
Law Public Safety and Security
36. When two or more companies rival for consumer dollars
Tentative Decision
Competition
Job Shadowing
Global Economy
37. To employ oneself in a particular or specific field of work
Persistent
Finance
Full-Time Job
Specializing
38. Fixed amount of money earned - regardless of hours worked; pay that is calculated exactly the same for every check
Salary
Qualification
Career cluster
Classifieds
39. The tool that employers use to find out basic information about job applicants
Help-wanted ads
Application form
Job Outlook
Ability
40. The instructional background and skills needed to qualify for employment
Education/Training Requirements
Personnel
Career Goal
Related Occupations
41. Earnings above base pay
Career Goal
Elective
Self-Concept
Overtime
42. Time an employee may take off work with pay
Producer
Resource
Post-secondary education
Annual Leave
43. An occupation one is well-suited or qualified for
Short-Term Goal
Transportation - Distribution - and Logistics
Punctuality
Vocation
44. 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
Salary Range
Job Shadowing
Finance
45. A book used for researching the most common careers in the United States
Networking
Technology
Semi-monthly Pay
OOH (Occupational Outlook Handbook)
46. A formal meeting between an employer and job applicant about a job opening
Stock
Interview
Resume
Evaluate
47. Units of measurement which schools use to determine whether or not students are progressing toward graduation
Profit
Specializing
Health Science
Credit
48. Payment for work - usually figured by the hour
Application form
Wage
Government and Public Administration
Specializing
49. Cluster that involves services that improve people's quality of life and promote safe - healthy communities
Check Stub
Compromise
Workforce diversity
Human Services
50. Instant opinion - based on certain clues - such as the way you look - act - and talk
First impression
Internet
Corporation
Interest