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Career Vocab
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soft-skills
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. An action or series of actions determined by an employer for a specific process
Personnel
Job Description
Career
Procedure
2. A belief - understanding - and recognition of one's own abilities
Reference
Self-Esteem
Vocational
Seasonal Work
3. 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
Identity
Classifieds
Risk
Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics
4. Being on time for work
First impression
Research
Punctuality
Seasonal Work
5. This involves hearing - thinking about and responding to what the speaker is saying
Interest
Listening
Manufacturing
Occupation
6. Cluster that involves designing and producing materials into intermediate or final products
Priortize
Ethnic
Manufacturing
Occupation
7. The surrounding physical conditions of a workplace
Prerequisite
Job
Specializing
Work Environment
8. Earnings paid twice a month on designated dates
Semi-monthly Pay
Free Enterprise System
Resource
Wage
9. A program where a person learns to do a certain job by working with a skilled worker
Reference
Long-Term Goal
ArkOscar
Apprenticeship
10. A group of workers who collectively bargin for higher wages - improved benefits - and better working conditions
Work
Elective
Union
Volunteering
11. Something a person wants to acheive later in life requiring much planning
Long-Term Goal
Schedule
Elective
Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA)
12. Hearing - learning - and retaining verbal information
Career Goal
Listening Skills
Payroll
Hospitality and Tourism
13. Cluster that involves providing education and training services; providing support services
Education and Training
Personnel
Post-secondary education
Listening Skills
14. Salary of wages given to an employee on a regular basis
Law of Demand
Payroll
Study Skills
Global Economy
15. Possibility of loss
Discrimination
Technology
Risk
Business Plan
16. Someone who creates a good or service
Ethnic
Entrepreneur
Job
Producer
17. Jobs with similiar work actvities
Career Portfolio
Career Interest Area
Marketing Sales and Service
Check Stub
18. Doing a job without pay to gain experience
Volunteering
Career Ladder
Specializing
Identity
19. Part of the paycheck that shows earnings and deductions
Human Services
Job Shadowing
Risk
Check Stub
20. An occupation one is well-suited or qualified for
Loss
Vocation
Applicant
Specializing
21. Average expected earnings from beginning to experienced pay
Volunteering
Union dues
Salary Range
Gross pay
22. The prospect for the future of a job or career
Demographics
Internship
Employment Outlook
Information Technology
23. The way in which a person views their own self-worth
Marketing Sales and Service
Producer
Career Interest Area
Self-Concept
24. Methods of paying for education/training - such as grants - scholarships - etc.
Financial aid
Laws of supply and demand
Retailing
Decision-Making Process
25. Fees charged by an organization to unite employees
Union dues
Priortize
Vocation
Reference
26. The course of action one decides to take at the end of the decision-making process
Deduction
Attitude
Health Science
Plan
27. A person who will give a favorable report of a job applicant to the employer
Reference
Associate degree
Career Goal
Services
28. Time an employee may take off work with pay
Persistent
Values
Job Market
Annual Leave
29. Rules of behavior in the workplace
Tentative Decision
Appearance
Work ethic
Check Stub
30. A formal meeting between an employer and job applicant about a job opening
Personality Type
Salary
Interest
Interview
31. Cluster that involves services that improve people's quality of life and promote safe - healthy communities
Human Services
Fringe benefits
Base Pay
Application form
32. Temporary work during the summer
Specializing
Bi-Weekly Pay
Architecture and Construction
Seasonal Work
33. Money accounted for from January 1st through the current pay period
Business Plan
Vendor
Year-to-date earnings
Assessment
34. An individual characterstic that helps one determine their personality
Personality Trait
Punctuality
Seasonal Work
Deduction
35. A wide variety of workers with different backgrounds - experiences - ideas - and skills in the workplace
Workforce diversity
Consumer
Follow-up Letter
Health Science
36. Business owned by one person
Bi-Weekly Pay
Sole Proprietorship
Payroll
Punctuality
37. Something one wants to obtain in the near future generally less than 5 years
Short-Term Goal
Specializing
Semi-monthly Pay
Overtime
38. notices that employers put in the classified section of the paper describing their job openings
Help-wanted ads
Applicant
Evaluate
Procedure
39. Collection of information about oneself
Schedule
Procedure
Career Portfolio
Payroll
40. Units of measurement which schools use to determine whether or not students are progressing toward graduation
Procrastinator
Credit
Job Description
Listening Skills
41. The person who has hires someone to do a job
Employer
Law of Demand
Letter of Application
Workforce diversity
42. Jobs that last for a limited period of time
Entrepreneur
Priortize
Arts Audio-Video Technology and Communications
Temporary Jobs
43. A special skill - knowledge - or ability that enables a person to perform a particular job
Qualification
Partnership
Salary
First impression
44. Any information about possible job openings
Values
Enterprise
Job lead
Persistent
45. The ability or potential for learning new skills
Stock
Career
Aptitude
Job Market
46. Natural method or way one thinks or learns
Learning Style
Aptitude
Vocation
Study Skills
47. Jobs requiring less than 35-40 hours a week - depending on the employer
Entrepreneur
Long-Term Goal
Career
Part-Time Jobs
48. Agreement to complete a job for an amount of money
Specializing
Self-Concept
Contract Labor
Marketing Sales and Service
49. Following a person on the job to learn job duties and responsibilities
Bi-Weekly Pay
Personality Type
Law of Demand
Job Shadowing
50. A description of the goals of a business and how it will operate
Partnership
Working Conditions
Business Plan
Reference