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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. A personal evaluation to help you make decisions
Credit
Assessment
Short-Term Goal
Personality
2. First thing an interviewer notices: an applicant's dress - hair - and grooming
Appearance
Credit
Personality Trait
Enterprise
3. Business owned by many people but treated by the law as though it were one person
Values Compromise
Corporation
Internship
Assessment
4. A course that is required before another course can be taken
Prerequisite
Research
Orientation
Arts Audio-Video Technology and Communications
5. To give up something to resolve a conflict
Compromise
Values Compromise
Partnership
Classifieds
6. Standards one believes is important about their work
Punctuality
On-the-job training (OJT)
Profit
Work Values
7. Money received for education that does not have to be repaid
Scholarships
Volunteering
Financial aid
Apprenticeship
8. Collection of information about oneself
Career Portfolio
Ethnic
Career
Demographics
9. A plan of action for education - training - and experience to reach a career goal
Orientation
Career Ladder
Work ethic
Co-worker
10. Payment for work - usually figured by the hour
Wage
Specializing
Human Services
Risk
11. An action or series of actions determined by an employer for a specific process
Procedure
Assessment
Post-secondary education
Internet
12. A productive activity resulting in something useful
Work
Personality Trait
Classifieds
Networking
13. Continuing for a long period of time to accomplish a task
Associate degree
Temporary Jobs
Persistent
Interest
14. The prospect for the future of a job or career
Technology
Manufacturing
Outsourcing
Employment Outlook
15. Cluster that involves services that improve people's quality of life and promote safe - healthy communities
Technical
Human Services
Hospitality and Tourism
Specializing
16. Fixed amount of money earned - regardless of hours worked; pay that is calculated exactly the same for every check
Seasonal Work
Finance
Punctuality
Salary
17. When a person has to give up part of something they value to resolve a conflict
Associate degree
Credit
Full-Time Job
Values Compromise
18. This involves hearing - thinking about and responding to what the speaker is saying
Punctuality
Arts Audio-Video Technology and Communications
Associate degree
Listening
19. Acquaint or become familiar with a new situation
Orientation
Apprenticeship
Goal
Human Services
20. Hearing - learning - and retaining verbal information
Plan
Listening Skills
OOH (Occupational Outlook Handbook)
Workforce diversity
21. A decision or plan that can be changed
OOH (Occupational Outlook Handbook)
Ability
Global Economy
Tentative Decision
22. Possibility of loss
Apprenticeship
Law of Supply
Risk
Overtime
23. An introductory letter written to a prospective employer
Career
Letter of Application
Full-Time Job
Skill
24. Undertaking or venture to make more with risk
Application form
Enterprise
Producer
Graduate school
25. Cluster that involves protective and legal services
Career Action Plan
Aptitude
Schedule
Law Public Safety and Security
26. Cumulative time given to employees for personal or family illness with pay
Sick Leave
Research
Agriculture Food and Natural Resources
Bachelor's degree
27. Average expected earnings from beginning to experienced pay
Union dues
Persistent
Salary Range
Punctuality
28. The planning and using of time
Interview
Conflict
Internet
Time Management
29. Characteristics or make-up of a population
Decision-Making Process
Personnel
Demographics
Corporation
30. Anything a person has or uses to reach a goal
Transportation - Distribution - and Logistics
Evaluate
Health Science
Resource
31. Cluster that involves designing - building - and repairing structures
Internet
Short-Term Goal
Architecture and Construction
Law of Supply
32. Jobs or occupations grouped together because of similar knowledge or skills
Partnership
Punctuality
Career cluster
Human Services
33. As the prices decreases producers purchase more
Career cluster
Specializing
Law of Demand
Part-Time Jobs
34. Relating to races or groups of people with common customs
Ethnic
Commission
Union
Consumer
35. Clash of ideas or values
Retailing
Professional
Working Conditions
Conflict
36. Cluster that involves designing and producing materials into intermediate or final products
Manufacturing
Aptitude
Annual Leave
Screen out
37. Something a person wants to acheive later in life requiring much planning
Applicant
Free Enterprise System
Work ethic
Long-Term Goal
38. The environment of the workplace
Salary
Business Plan
Brain Orientation
Working Conditions
39. Salary of wages given to an employee on a regular basis
Scholarships
Payroll
Short-Term Goal
Post-secondary education
40. The thing a person enjoys doing or thinking about
Help-wanted ads
Interest
Tuition
Interest Inventory
41. one who puts off doing things or making decisions
Working Conditions
Corporation
Procrastinator
Co-worker
42. The steps one takes to make the best decision
Decision-Making Process
Career Ladder
Aptitude
Marketing Sales and Service
43. Focusing or concentrating in a particular skill
Specializing
Study Skills
Technology
Apprenticeship
44. A program of study beyond a bachelor's degree
Graduate school
Bachelor's degree
Stock
Prerequisite
45. Amount of money taken from an employee's gross pay for taxes - insurance - social security - and other benefits
Post-secondary education
Deduction
Health Science
Attitude
46. Extras provided by employers (other than wages)
Volunteering
Corporation
Employer
Fringe benefits
47. Receiving a paycheck every other Friday
Career Ladder
Employment Outlook
Bi-Weekly Pay
Outsourcing
48. The amount of a paycheck after the deductions are taken out
Prerequisite
GED certificate
Help-wanted ads
Net pay
49. 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
Entrepreneur
GED certificate
Corporation
Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics
50. To eliminate unwanted applicants
Procrastinator
Screen out
Bi-Weekly Pay
Marketing Sales and Service