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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. Commoney known as Social Security
Deduction
Fee
Networking
Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA)
2. Tangible merchandise that you can see and touch
Qualification
Finance
Goods
Information Technology
3. A person's outlook on life - usually positive or negative
Networking
Self-Esteem
Attitude
Business Management and Administration
4. Cumulative time given to employees for personal or family illness with pay
Career Interest Area
Job Outlook
Sick Leave
Outsourcing
5. Someone who sells goods or services
Vendor
Business Management and Administration
Personality Type
O*Net
6. Amount of money taken from an employee's gross pay for taxes - insurance - social security - and other benefits
Business Plan
Aptitude
Employer
Deduction
7. Continuing for a long period of time to accomplish a task
Profit
Persistent
Conflict
OOH (Occupational Outlook Handbook)
8. To find out more by reading and talking to people
Temporary Jobs
Research
Services
Punctuality
9. A specialized scientific work in manufacturing and industry
Decision
Technical
Conflict
Net pay
10. 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
Transportation - Distribution - and Logistics
Free Enterprise System
Career Interest Area
Evaluate
11. Employment during special seasons
Temporary Jobs
Free Enterprise System
Learning Style
Priortize
12. Occupational Information Network compiled by the United States Department of Labor
Help-wanted ads
Temporary Jobs
O*Net
Personnel
13. Being on time for work
Punctuality
Compromise
Employment Agency
Producer
14. An action or series of actions determined by an employer for a specific process
Learning Style
Procedure
Producer
Overtime
15. A wide variety of workers with different backgrounds - experiences - ideas - and skills in the workplace
Volunteering
Personality Type
Interest
Workforce diversity
16. A book used for researching the most common careers in the United States
OOH (Occupational Outlook Handbook)
Fee
Job Shadowing
Free Enterprise System
17. Cluster that involves designing and producing materials into intermediate or final products
Goal
Values
Attitude
Manufacturing
18. A description of the goals of a business and how it will operate
Attitude
Qualification
Partnership
Business Plan
19. Hearing - learning - and retaining verbal information
Persistent
Listening Skills
Personality Type
Competition
20. A course or program that teaches job skills
Vocational
Marketing Sales and Service
Help-wanted ads
Technology
21. Intangible work done for others as an occupation
Services
Credit
Schedule
Gross pay
22. The work done over a period of years in one area of interest
Full-Time Job
Technical
Career
ArkOscar
23. A person who will give a favorable report of a job applicant to the employer
Persistent
Hospitality and Tourism
Employment Outlook
Reference
24. Arrange things in order from the most important to the least important
Goal
Job Description
Commission
Priortize
25. The person who has hires someone to do a job
Employer
Demographics
Procrastinator
Punctuality
26. The instructional background and skills needed to qualify for employment
Overtime
Career Goal
Education/Training Requirements
Law Public Safety and Security
27. The computer network system through which information can be shared on the World Wide Web
Information Technology
Work
Agriculture Food and Natural Resources
Internet
28. Salary of wages given to an employee on a regular basis
Payroll
Loss
Study Skills
Lifestyle
29. To employ oneself in a particular or specific field of work
Personality Type
Finance
Procrastinator
Specializing
30. Cluster that involves planning - organizing - and directing business operations
Job
Aptitude
Business Management and Administration
Career cluster
31. The personality or activity by which a person is known
Fee
Job Duty
Help-wanted ads
Identity
32. Jobs requiring less than 35-40 hours a week - depending on the employer
Retailing
Profit
Part-Time Jobs
Employment Agency
33. Methods of paying for education/training - such as grants - scholarships - etc.
Networking
Financial aid
Economy
Personality
34. Buying a finished good or service with the intent to resell it by the unit
Retailing
Semi-monthly Pay
Specializing
Wholesale
35. The ability to perform a certain activity well
Skill
Interest Inventory
Work ethic
Screen out
36. Something a person wants to acheive later in life requiring much planning
Technical
Long-Term Goal
Consumer
Skill
37. Cluster that involves computer and Web-based services; telecommunications services
Evaluate
Follow-up Letter
Career cluster
Information Technology
38. Standards one believes is important about their work
Time Management
Workforce diversity
Work Values
Occupation
39. First thing an interviewer notices: an applicant's dress - hair - and grooming
Job Outlook
Appearance
Tentative Decision
Government and Public Administration
40. Instant opinion - based on certain clues - such as the way you look - act - and talk
Career cluster
Co-worker
Internship
First impression
41. Treating someone unfairly because of his or her race - religion - or sex
Discrimination
Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics
Tentative Decision
Payroll
42. The combination of attitude - values - interests - and behaviors that identify a person
Demographics
Personnel
Employment Agency
Personality
43. Business which two or more people own and operate
Assessment
Career cluster
Evaluate
Partnership
44. Business owned by many people but treated by the law as though it were one person
Year-to-date earnings
Corporation
Graduate school
Law Public Safety and Security
45. Something one wants to obtain in the near future generally less than 5 years
Loss
Short-Term Goal
Employer
Union
46. Doing a job without pay to gain experience
Profit
Long-Term Goal
Volunteering
Job
47. An introductory letter written to a prospective employer
Lifestyle
Gross pay
Letter of Application
Enterprise
48. Pay that is based upon the percentage of sales
Technical
Vocational
Entrepreneur
Commission
49. A program where a person learns to do a certain job by working with a skilled worker
Compromise
Law of Demand
Apprenticeship
Lifestyle
50. A program of study beyond a bachelor's degree
Prerequisite
Application form
Networking
Graduate school