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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. Anything a person has or uses to reach a goal
Resource
Employment Agency
Brain Orientation
Human Services
2. A plan of action for education - training - and experience to reach a career goal
Career Ladder
Personality Trait
Graduate school
Career cluster
3. Typical way of life
Help-wanted ads
Lifestyle
Transportation - Distribution - and Logistics
Aptitude
4. Salary of wages given to an employee on a regular basis
Payroll
Goods
Workforce diversity
Vocation
5. Employment during special seasons
Base Pay
Job lead
Retailing
Temporary Jobs
6. Treating someone unfairly because of his or her race - religion - or sex
Discrimination
Deduction
Vendor
Full-Time Job
7. A skill that you have developed
Skill
Career
Ability
Semi-monthly Pay
8. Cluster that involves services that improve people's quality of life and promote safe - healthy communities
Commission
Human Services
Career Action Plan
Employment Outlook
9. A person who works with you
Post-secondary education
Career Ladder
Co-worker
Application form
10. Payment for work - usually figured by the hour
Career Ladder
Vocation
Wage
Goods
11. A group of characteristics that collective form a general group of people with similiar interests - values - and behaviors
Manufacturing
Personality Type
ArkOscar
Career Action Plan
12. Someone who purchases a good or service with the intent to use it
Consumer
Persistent
Work Environment
Punctuality
13. The environment of the workplace
Working Conditions
Semi-monthly Pay
Listening Skills
Stock
14. Agreement to complete a job for an amount of money
Study Skills
Contract Labor
Full-Time Job
Career
15. An introductory letter written to a prospective employer
Letter of Application
Attitude
Seasonal Work
Year-to-date earnings
16. Work that a person does for pay
Associate degree
Job
Personality Trait
Job Shadowing
17. Extras provided by employers (other than wages)
Fringe benefits
Specializing
Career Goal
Co-worker
18. Characteristics or make-up of a population
Vocation
Wholesale
Professional
Demographics
19. A person who organizes - manages - and assumes the risk of a business
Entrepreneur
Qualification
Corporation
Work ethic
20. Commoney known as Social Security
Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA)
Loss
Job Market
Education and Training
21. Cluster that involves services involving lodging - entertainment - recreation - and travel; food and beverage management
Architecture and Construction
Hospitality and Tourism
Related Occupations
Ethnic
22. Part of the paycheck that shows earnings and deductions
Prerequisite
Interview
Vocational
Check Stub
23. A program of study beyond a bachelor's degree
Graduate school
Conflict
Temporary Jobs
Free Enterprise System
24. Economic rules which influence consumer buying decisions
Laws of supply and demand
Seasonal Work
Appearance
Skill
25. A group of workers who collectively bargin for higher wages - improved benefits - and better working conditions
Union
ArkOscar
Appearance
Sole Proprietorship
26. A computerized career information delivery system
Wholesale
Qualification
Scholarships
ArkOscar
27. The steps one takes to make the best decision
Occupation
Appearance
Priortize
Decision-Making Process
28. A certificate of completion awarded to a person after completing a program of study in a particular area - usually lasting 2 years
Long-Term Goal
Fringe benefits
Associate degree
Manufacturing
29. Something a person wants to acheive later in life requiring much planning
Education and Training
Commission
Career Ladder
Long-Term Goal
30. Hearing - learning - and retaining verbal information
Wage
Free Enterprise System
Listening Skills
Study Skills
31. Money received for education that does not have to be repaid
Scholarships
Values Compromise
Internship
Manufacturing
32. To give up something to resolve a conflict
Compromise
Wholesale
Specializing
Schedule
33. Learning on the job
Fringe benefits
Orientation
Resume
On-the-job training (OJT)
34. Cluster that involves developing - promoting - and providing goods to consumers; performing tasks for consumers
Decision
Help-wanted ads
Personality Type
Marketing Sales and Service
35. The way in which a person views their own self-worth
Business Management and Administration
ArkOscar
Decision
Self-Concept
36. A wide variety of workers with different backgrounds - experiences - ideas - and skills in the workplace
Partnership
Workforce diversity
Occupation
Temporary Jobs
37. Careful use of resources including money and materials
Economy
Sick Leave
Vendor
Marketing Sales and Service
38. A belief - understanding - and recognition of one's own abilities
Profit
Listening Skills
Competition
Self-Esteem
39. The person who has hires someone to do a job
GED certificate
Economy
Seasonal Work
Employer
40. Cluster that involves designing - building - and repairing structures
Architecture and Construction
Credit
Application form
Competition
41. A productive activity resulting in something useful
First impression
Work
Self-Concept
Career cluster
42. Cluster that involves the science of maintaining and improving people's physical and mental well-being
Tuition
Reference
Health Science
Career Interest Area
43. Someone who sells goods or services
Consumer
Technical
Vendor
Annual Leave
44. A special skill - knowledge - or ability that enables a person to perform a particular job
Self-Concept
Self-Esteem
Full-Time Job
Qualification
45. Temporary work during the summer
Seasonal Work
Technical
Payroll
Salary
46. A book used for researching the most common careers in the United States
Career Portfolio
Job Shadowing
OOH (Occupational Outlook Handbook)
Economy
47. When a person has to give up part of something they value to resolve a conflict
Annual Leave
Values Compromise
Job Market
ArkOscar
48. The thing a person enjoys doing or thinking about
Classifieds
Job lead
Goods
Interest
49. A decision or plan that can be changed
Specializing
Corporation
Resume
Tentative Decision
50. 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
Job Shadowing
Post-secondary education
Free Enterprise System
Government and Public Administration