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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. 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
Laws of supply and demand
Help-wanted ads
Salary
2. Natural method or way one thinks or learns
Prerequisite
Professional
Short-Term Goal
Learning Style
3. Any education or training following high school
Learning Style
Temporary Jobs
Post-secondary education
Commission
4. Work that a person does for pay
Wage
Job
Work ethic
Post-secondary education
5. Employment during special seasons
Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA)
Occupation
Vocational
Temporary Jobs
6. Doing a job without pay to gain experience
Services
Career Goal
Volunteering
Tuition
7. This involves hearing - thinking about and responding to what the speaker is saying
Listening
Stockholder
Learning Style
Career Portfolio
8. Jobs with similiar work actvities
Annual Leave
Union dues
Career Interest Area
Assessment
9. A special skill - knowledge - or ability that enables a person to perform a particular job
Time Management
Study Skills
Qualification
Internship
10. Careful use of resources including money and materials
Ethnic
Career Ladder
Economy
Procrastinator
11. A long term work plan including education - training - and experience
Career Goal
Job Duty
Salary
Job
12. The prospect for the future of a job or career
Employment Outlook
Professional
Career Goal
Job Duty
13. An individual characterstic that helps one determine their personality
Co-worker
Personality Trait
Free Enterprise System
Temporary Jobs
14. Cluster that involves the science of maintaining and improving people's physical and mental well-being
Health Science
Prerequisite
Career Action Plan
Base Pay
15. Being on time for work
Applicant
Personality Type
Gross pay
Punctuality
16. A plan which includes the education and training requirements to reach a career goal
Follow-up Letter
Career Action Plan
Tentative Decision
Union
17. A person applying for a job
Applicant
Services
Work Environment
Wage
18. Using People in foreign countries to assemble parts; utilizing external resources - and saving labor costs
Year-to-date earnings
Discrimination
Graduate school
Outsourcing
19. Money accounted for from January 1st through the current pay period
Time Management
Year-to-date earnings
Listening
Procedure
20. Hearing - learning - and retaining verbal information
Listening Skills
Career Interest Area
Personality
Semi-monthly Pay
21. Occupational Information Network compiled by the United States Department of Labor
Services
Credit
Work
O*Net
22. Money earned above the cost of doing business
Profit
Evaluate
Business Management and Administration
Follow-up Letter
23. Arrange things in order from the most important to the least important
Networking
Commission
Temporary Jobs
Priortize
24. The personality or activity by which a person is known
Interview
Demographics
Identity
Transportation - Distribution - and Logistics
25. Determining the best way for an individual to study - remember - or learn
Qualification
Study Skills
Values Compromise
Work Environment
26. Jobs or careers belonging to the same group on the basis of similar knowledge and skills
Persistent
Decision
Wage
Related Occupations
27. A person who works with you
Reference
Study Skills
Co-worker
Career Action Plan
28. Something one wants to obtain in the near future generally less than 5 years
Payroll
Short-Term Goal
Conflict
Wage
29. Someone who purchases a good or service with the intent to use it
Consumer
Help-wanted ads
Working Conditions
Temporary Jobs
30. Units of measurement which schools use to determine whether or not students are progressing toward graduation
Elective
Interest
Salary Range
Credit
31. Anything a person has or uses to reach a goal
Free Enterprise System
O*Net
Follow-up Letter
Resource
32. A definition of work duties
Job Description
Semi-monthly Pay
Technology
Law of Demand
33. A personal evaluation to help you make decisions
Deduction
Assessment
Global Economy
Prerequisite
34. The amount of a paycheck after the deductions are taken out
ArkOscar
Goal
Transportation - Distribution - and Logistics
Net pay
35. Rules of behavior in the workplace
Arts Audio-Video Technology and Communications
Job lead
Work ethic
Self-Concept
36. Cluster that involves coordinating the movement of people - goods - and services; career cluster - jobs or occupations grouped together because of similar knowledge or skills
Transportation - Distribution - and Logistics
Persistent
Laws of supply and demand
Workforce diversity
37. The thing a person enjoys doing or thinking about
Union dues
Enterprise
Interest
Time Management
38. A skill that you have developed
Appearance
Ability
Job Shadowing
Learning Style
39. The combination of attitude - values - interests - and behaviors that identify a person
Deduction
Decision-Making Process
Personality
Career Goal
40. Learning on the job
On-the-job training (OJT)
Part-Time Jobs
Entrepreneur
Profit
41. Treating someone unfairly because of his or her race - religion - or sex
Ethnic
Discrimination
Ability
Employer
42. The computer network system through which information can be shared on the World Wide Web
Law of Supply
Learning Style
Attitude
Internet
43. Extras provided by employers (other than wages)
Interest
Fringe benefits
Work Values
Specializing
44. Business owned by one person
Sole Proprietorship
Priortize
Qualification
Decision
45. The total amount of an employee's earnings before deductions are taken out
Stockholder
Work ethic
Gross pay
Apprenticeship
46. The ability to perform a certain activity well
Bi-Weekly Pay
Appearance
Working Conditions
Skill
47. Jobs or occupations grouped together because of similar knowledge or skills
Career cluster
Law of Demand
Services
Decision
48. Help-wanted section of the newspaper that lists job openings
Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA)
Lifestyle
Classifieds
Union dues
49. Something a person wants to acheive later in life requiring much planning
Long-Term Goal
Specializing
Evaluate
Punctuality
50. A group of workers who collectively bargin for higher wages - improved benefits - and better working conditions
Union
Appearance
Free Enterprise System
Networking