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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. The choice between two or more possibilities
Partnership
Decision-Making Process
Decision
Temporary Jobs
2. Business owned by many people but treated by the law as though it were one person
Economy
Corporation
Partnership
Help-wanted ads
3. An assessment that helps people identify their interest areas
Specializing
Vocational
Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics
Interest Inventory
4. A wide variety of workers with different backgrounds - experiences - ideas - and skills in the workplace
Workforce diversity
Net pay
Salary
Schedule
5. Cluster that involves protective and legal services
Conflict
Compromise
Applicant
Law Public Safety and Security
6. A decision or plan that can be changed
Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA)
Prerequisite
Employment Outlook
Tentative Decision
7. Characteristics or make-up of a population
Job Shadowing
Education and Training
Working Conditions
Demographics
8. The planning and using of time
Year-to-date earnings
Career Interest Area
Time Management
Decision
9. Collection of information about oneself
Job Description
Career Portfolio
Consumer
Career Ladder
10. Treating someone unfairly because of his or her race - religion - or sex
Working Conditions
Free Enterprise System
Discrimination
Assessment
11. Amount of money taken from an employee's gross pay for taxes - insurance - social security - and other benefits
Elective
Deduction
Laws of supply and demand
Transportation - Distribution - and Logistics
12. The amount of a paycheck after the deductions are taken out
Information Technology
Net pay
Free Enterprise System
Job Shadowing
13. A temporary paid or unpaid position that involves direct work experience in a career field
Contract Labor
Evaluate
Personality Type
Internship
14. A task one is expected to perform on the job
Lifestyle
Free Enterprise System
Job Duty
Conflict
15. Jobs or careers belonging to the same group on the basis of similar knowledge and skills
Job lead
Entry-Level Jobs
Related Occupations
Resource
16. The prospect for the future of a job or career
Full-Time Job
Transportation - Distribution - and Logistics
Employment Outlook
Corporation
17. Jobs or occupations grouped together because of similar knowledge or skills
Vocation
Volunteering
Career cluster
Bachelor's degree
18. A person who will give a favorable report of a job applicant to the employer
Interview
Reference
Discrimination
Co-worker
19. A person who works with you
Job Market
Career Portfolio
Co-worker
Competition
20. A specialized scientific work in manufacturing and industry
Business Plan
Technical
Aptitude
Interest Inventory
21. Salary of wages given to an employee on a regular basis
Payroll
Interest Inventory
Temporary Jobs
Priortize
22. Intangible work done for others as an occupation
Services
Temporary Jobs
Career Action Plan
Related Occupations
23. Learning on the job
Business Management and Administration
Job
On-the-job training (OJT)
Entry-Level Jobs
24. A person who organizes - manages - and assumes the risk of a business
Entrepreneur
Union dues
Occupation
Bi-Weekly Pay
25. notices that employers put in the classified section of the paper describing their job openings
Resume
Help-wanted ads
Education/Training Requirements
Job Market
26. The person who has hires someone to do a job
Employer
Interview
Seasonal Work
Conflict
27. A person who owns stock in a company
Applicant
Stockholder
Stock
Personality Type
28. Cluster that involves designing - building - and repairing structures
Time Management
Architecture and Construction
Job Shadowing
Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics
29. To buy in bulk form wi the intent to resell by the case
Outsourcing
Career Ladder
Demographics
Wholesale
30. An individual characterstic that helps one determine their personality
Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics
Lifestyle
Reference
Personality Trait
31. Pay that is based upon the percentage of sales
Commission
Skill
Base Pay
Risk
32. Methods of paying for education/training - such as grants - scholarships - etc.
Financial aid
Procedure
Credit
Plan
33. A skill that you have developed
Economy
Competition
Ability
Manufacturing
34. Earnings paid twice a month on designated dates
Career Goal
Internship
Semi-monthly Pay
Qualification
35. As the prices decreases producers purchase more
Vocational
Ethnic
Law of Demand
Seasonal Work
36. Being on time for work
Punctuality
Interest Inventory
Appearance
Full-Time Job
37. Cluster that involves services involving lodging - entertainment - recreation - and travel; food and beverage management
Free Enterprise System
Goods
Loss
Hospitality and Tourism
38. Jobs requiring less than 35-40 hours a week - depending on the employer
Gross pay
Associate degree
Temporary Jobs
Part-Time Jobs
39. Earnings below the cost of doing business
Seasonal Work
Loss
Job Duty
Job Shadowing
40. A resource that involves communicating information with others
Law Public Safety and Security
Networking
Discrimination
Hospitality and Tourism
41. Careful use of resources including money and materials
Economy
Working Conditions
Consumer
Competition
42. A document stating that a person has passed a five-part test in the areas of writing - social studies - science - reading - and math
Vocational
GED certificate
Fee
Business Plan
43. Personal standards by which one lives
Volunteering
Values
Marketing Sales and Service
Job Shadowing
44. Jobs with similiar work actvities
Education and Training
Career Interest Area
Specializing
Job Outlook
45. Cluster that involves visual and performing arts; multimedia communications; journalism
Arts Audio-Video Technology and Communications
Persistent
Interview
Gross pay
46. Cluster that involves computer and Web-based services; telecommunications services
Information Technology
Salary Range
Job Outlook
Short-Term Goal
47. Work that a person does for pay
Applicant
Orientation
Job
Letter of Application
48. Buying a finished good or service with the intent to resell it by the unit
Personality
Career Portfolio
Retailing
Goal
49. Cluster that involves designing and producing materials into intermediate or final products
Career Goal
Manufacturing
Business Plan
Enterprise
50. Money received for education that does not have to be repaid
Deduction
Apprenticeship
Job Shadowing
Scholarships