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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. Earnings above base pay
Temporary Jobs
Screen out
Partnership
Overtime
2. Jobs that last for a limited period of time
ArkOscar
Co-worker
Temporary Jobs
Apprenticeship
3. Acquaint or become familiar with a new situation
Marketing Sales and Service
Elective
Orientation
Check Stub
4. The personality or activity by which a person is known
Identity
Demographics
Net pay
Risk
5. The total amount of an employee's earnings before deductions are taken out
Gross pay
On-the-job training (OJT)
Job
Compromise
6. Business owned by one person
Sole Proprietorship
Values Compromise
Listening
Risk
7. A productive activity resulting in something useful
Education/Training Requirements
Resource
Co-worker
Work
8. A personal evaluation to help you make decisions
Bachelor's degree
Assessment
Conflict
Profit
9. The person who has hires someone to do a job
Producer
Employer
Health Science
Graduate school
10. Jobs or careers belonging to the same group on the basis of similar knowledge and skills
Related Occupations
Sick Leave
Education and Training
Values Compromise
11. Economic rules which influence consumer buying decisions
Attitude
Listening Skills
Laws of supply and demand
ArkOscar
12. Fixed amount of money earned - regardless of hours worked; pay that is calculated exactly the same for every check
Job lead
Vocational
Finance
Salary
13. Cluster that involves computer and Web-based services; telecommunications services
Deduction
Fee
Payroll
Information Technology
14. Jobs with similiar work actvities
Lifestyle
Career Interest Area
Learning Style
Laws of supply and demand
15. An assessment that helps people identify their interest areas
Internship
Screen out
Interest Inventory
Self-Esteem
16. When two or more companies rival for consumer dollars
Volunteering
Ability
Competition
Credit
17. Cluster that involves services involving lodging - entertainment - recreation - and travel; food and beverage management
Self-Esteem
Hospitality and Tourism
Follow-up Letter
Law of Supply
18. Arrange things in order from the most important to the least important
Persistent
Priortize
Interest Inventory
Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics
19. Pay that is based upon the percentage of sales
Salary
Commission
Brain Orientation
Long-Term Goal
20. The prospect for the future of a job or career
Internship
Commission
Employment Outlook
Decision
21. Units of measurement which schools use to determine whether or not students are progressing toward graduation
Salary
Interest Inventory
Career Portfolio
Credit
22. Cluster that involves coordinating the movement of people - goods - and services; career cluster - jobs or occupations grouped together because of similar knowledge or skills
Classifieds
Transportation - Distribution - and Logistics
Law of Demand
Temporary Jobs
23. Cluster that involves planning - organizing - and directing business operations
Law of Demand
Learning Style
Health Science
Business Management and Administration
24. Cluster that involves providing education and training services; providing support services
Architecture and Construction
Education and Training
Screen out
Competition
25. Doing a job without pay to gain experience
Volunteering
Stockholder
Personnel
Free Enterprise System
26. A certificate of completion awarded to a person after completing a program of study in a particular area - usually lasting 2 years
Associate degree
Union
Short-Term Goal
Vendor
27. one who puts off doing things or making decisions
Procrastinator
Sick Leave
Union
Payroll
28. Cluster that involves visual and performing arts; multimedia communications; journalism
Brain Orientation
Graduate school
Research
Arts Audio-Video Technology and Communications
29. The combination of attitude - values - interests - and behaviors that identify a person
Job Description
Personality
Arts Audio-Video Technology and Communications
Wholesale
30. Personal standards by which one lives
Study Skills
Values
Specializing
Partnership
31. A thank you letter written following an interview
Fee
Follow-up Letter
Business Plan
Ability
32. The instructional background and skills needed to qualify for employment
Architecture and Construction
Education/Training Requirements
Discrimination
Follow-up Letter
33. 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
Credit
Free Enterprise System
Interest
Workforce diversity
34. As the prices decreases producers purchase more
Follow-up Letter
Apprenticeship
Law of Demand
Interview
35. Money accounted for from January 1st through the current pay period
Working Conditions
Consumer
Year-to-date earnings
Personality Trait
36. Instant opinion - based on certain clues - such as the way you look - act - and talk
Profit
First impression
Personality Trait
Long-Term Goal
37. A service business designed to help put employees and employers together
Time Management
Consumer
Wholesale
Employment Agency
38. Earnings below the cost of doing business
Working Conditions
Loss
Part-Time Jobs
Retailing
39. The way in which a person views their own self-worth
Interview
Self-Concept
Short-Term Goal
Lifestyle
40. To eliminate unwanted applicants
Short-Term Goal
Services
Screen out
Work Environment
41. Cluster that involves acquiring - investing - and managing money
Net pay
Finance
Elective
Job Shadowing
42. A computerized career information delivery system
ArkOscar
Job
Compromise
Goods
43. To employ oneself in a particular or specific field of work
Architecture and Construction
Specializing
Application form
Workforce diversity
44. The course of action one decides to take at the end of the decision-making process
Values
Plan
Law of Supply
Overtime
45. The work done over a period of years in one area of interest
Profit
Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics
Career
Career cluster
46. notices that employers put in the classified section of the paper describing their job openings
Self-Concept
Finance
Vocational
Help-wanted ads
47. Using People in foreign countries to assemble parts; utilizing external resources - and saving labor costs
Personality Trait
Outsourcing
GED certificate
Work ethic
48. The planning and using of time
Wholesale
Time Management
Volunteering
Government and Public Administration
49. Help-wanted section of the newspaper that lists job openings
Screen out
ArkOscar
Time Management
Classifieds
50. A course or program that teaches job skills
Credit
Vocational
Working Conditions
Government and Public Administration