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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
Personality
Specializing
Education/Training Requirements
Assessment
2. The steps one takes to make the best decision
Decision-Making Process
Economy
Credit
Career Goal
3. A formal meeting between an employer and job applicant about a job opening
Work Values
Long-Term Goal
Interview
Classifieds
4. Money received for education that does not have to be repaid
Education/Training Requirements
Scholarships
Skill
Technical
5. The prospect for the future of a job or career
Employment Outlook
Consumer
Schedule
Union dues
6. Cluster that involves computer and Web-based services; telecommunications services
Conflict
Information Technology
Law of Demand
Personality Trait
7. To look at closely and judge
Personality
Orientation
Business Plan
Evaluate
8. A program where a person learns to do a certain job by working with a skilled worker
Temporary Jobs
Apprenticeship
Career Ladder
Bachelor's degree
9. A decision or plan that can be changed
Global Economy
Tentative Decision
Information Technology
Associate degree
10. Money earned above the cost of doing business
Profit
Brain Orientation
Discrimination
Decision
11. The surrounding physical conditions of a workplace
Personality
Work Environment
Work Values
Part-Time Jobs
12. Characteristics or make-up of a population
Demographics
Government and Public Administration
Job Duty
Follow-up Letter
13. To employ oneself in a particular or specific field of work
Specializing
Education/Training Requirements
Part-Time Jobs
Retailing
14. Payment for work - usually figured by the hour
Scholarships
Payroll
Goods
Wage
15. Buying a finished good or service with the intent to resell it by the unit
Education/Training Requirements
Co-worker
Retailing
Help-wanted ads
16. Pay that is based upon the percentage of sales
Plan
Architecture and Construction
Commission
Follow-up Letter
17. Arrange things in order from the most important to the least important
Interview
Procrastinator
Priortize
O*Net
18. A certificate of completion awarded to a person after completing a program of study in a particular area - usually lasting 2 years
Fringe benefits
Associate degree
Lifestyle
Commission
19. A person who owns stock in a company
Stockholder
Interest
Work
Free Enterprise System
20. The work done over a period of years in one area of interest
Career
Professional
Laws of supply and demand
Free Enterprise System
21. The thing a person enjoys doing or thinking about
Business Plan
Interest
Tentative Decision
Ethnic
22. An action or series of actions determined by an employer for a specific process
ArkOscar
Stock
Procedure
Union
23. The course of action one decides to take at the end of the decision-making process
Plan
Outsourcing
Annual Leave
Global Economy
24. A definition of work duties
Information Technology
Job Description
Procedure
Outsourcing
25. The person who has hires someone to do a job
Decision-Making Process
Employer
Work Values
Seasonal Work
26. A short written description of an applicant's personal data - education - and experience - related to a job
Career Interest Area
Consumer
Wage
Resume
27. Occupational Information Network compiled by the United States Department of Labor
Corporation
Conflict
Time Management
O*Net
28. Collection of information about oneself
Credit
Associate degree
Career Portfolio
Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA)
29. A person's outlook on life - usually positive or negative
Learning Style
Resume
Attitude
Semi-monthly Pay
30. Using People in foreign countries to assemble parts; utilizing external resources - and saving labor costs
Outsourcing
Credit
Assessment
Work Environment
31. Cumulative time given to employees for personal or family illness with pay
Sick Leave
Interest Inventory
Salary
Employer
32. A skill that you have developed
Ability
Help-wanted ads
Job lead
Global Economy
33. A person who organizes - manages - and assumes the risk of a business
Punctuality
Scholarships
Personality Trait
Entrepreneur
34. Receiving a paycheck every other Friday
Punctuality
Entry-Level Jobs
GED certificate
Bi-Weekly Pay
35. Generally 40 Hour work week or more
Specializing
Career Interest Area
Full-Time Job
Tuition
36. The type of job in which a person is employed
Occupation
Scholarships
Identity
Personality Type
37. Typical way of life
Lifestyle
Resume
Tentative Decision
Persistent
38. Cluster that involves planning - organizing - and directing business operations
Competition
Business Management and Administration
Appearance
Professional
39. Cluster that involves coordinating the movement of people - goods - and services; career cluster - jobs or occupations grouped together because of similar knowledge or skills
Technical
Discrimination
Punctuality
Transportation - Distribution - and Logistics
40. Intangible work done for others as an occupation
Learning Style
Time Management
Resource
Services
41. To give up something to resolve a conflict
Scholarships
Salary
Attitude
Compromise
42. Time an employee may take off work with pay
Annual Leave
Interest Inventory
Personality
Sole Proprietorship
43. 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
Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics
Architecture and Construction
Vocational
Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA)
44. A program of study beyond a bachelor's degree
Graduate school
Punctuality
Career Goal
Technical
45. Someone who creates a good or service
Government and Public Administration
Bachelor's degree
Producer
Profit
46. 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
Schedule
Year-to-date earnings
Free Enterprise System
Employment Agency
47. Cluster that involves providing education and training services; providing support services
Procedure
Study Skills
Education and Training
Check Stub
48. An objective that a person wants to obtain and works to achieve
Volunteering
Goal
Job lead
Partnership
49. A group of employees
Personnel
Specializing
Job Shadowing
Application form
50. Doing a job without pay to gain experience
Apprenticeship
Profit
Professional
Volunteering