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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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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. Relating to a specific field with a high degree of skill or experience
Professional
Career Ladder
Fee
Punctuality
2. A special skill - knowledge - or ability that enables a person to perform a particular job
Payroll
Conflict
Manufacturing
Qualification
3. Cluster that involves services that improve people's quality of life and promote safe - healthy communities
Occupation
Human Services
Gross pay
Job Market
4. Employment during special seasons
Temporary Jobs
Scholarships
Attitude
Orientation
5. A group of characteristics that collective form a general group of people with similiar interests - values - and behaviors
Time Management
O*Net
Career Interest Area
Personality Type
6. The future prospects for employment in a particular job or field
Job Outlook
Partnership
Work Environment
Long-Term Goal
7. An assessment that helps people identify their interest areas
Interest
Year-to-date earnings
Interest Inventory
Classifieds
8. Receiving a paycheck every other Friday
Bi-Weekly Pay
Listening Skills
ArkOscar
Law of Demand
9. The combination of attitude - values - interests - and behaviors that identify a person
Qualification
Brain Orientation
Year-to-date earnings
Personality
10. Jobs that last for a limited period of time
Plan
Related Occupations
Temporary Jobs
Identity
11. Payment for work - usually figured by the hour
Work Values
Procedure
Economy
Wage
12. Cluster that involves designing - building - and repairing structures
Architecture and Construction
Procedure
Persistent
Risk
13. A group of employees
Personnel
Finance
Punctuality
Job Duty
14. Cluster that involves protective and legal services
Law Public Safety and Security
Marketing Sales and Service
Agriculture Food and Natural Resources
Post-secondary education
15. Business which two or more people own and operate
Career Action Plan
Partnership
Year-to-date earnings
Retailing
16. Undertaking or venture to make more with risk
Enterprise
Competition
Self-Esteem
Fringe benefits
17. Economic rules which influence consumer buying decisions
Credit
Laws of supply and demand
Employer
Schedule
18. one who puts off doing things or making decisions
Economy
Working Conditions
Salary Range
Procrastinator
19. A task one is expected to perform on the job
Technology
Ability
Job Duty
Job
20. A program where a person learns to do a certain job by working with a skilled worker
Wage
Services
Apprenticeship
Sole Proprietorship
21. A productive activity resulting in something useful
Part-Time Jobs
Work
Career Portfolio
Applicant
22. notices that employers put in the classified section of the paper describing their job openings
Semi-monthly Pay
Qualification
Help-wanted ads
Information Technology
23. First thing an interviewer notices: an applicant's dress - hair - and grooming
Appearance
Free Enterprise System
Aptitude
Job Outlook
24. The choice between two or more possibilities
Interview
Decision
Learning Style
Workforce diversity
25. An individual characterstic that helps one determine their personality
Job Market
Work ethic
Personality Trait
Vocational
26. To make a plan or arrange things that must be done
Study Skills
Salary
Agriculture Food and Natural Resources
Schedule
27. A group of workers who collectively bargin for higher wages - improved benefits - and better working conditions
Attitude
Union
Manufacturing
Job Description
28. Jobs or occupations grouped together because of similar knowledge or skills
Career cluster
Applicant
Retailing
Union dues
29. Time an employee may take off work with pay
Credit
Annual Leave
Evaluate
Overtime
30. The jobs that beginners start with to train them for higher-level jobs
Loss
Job lead
Entry-Level Jobs
Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA)
31. Instant opinion - based on certain clues - such as the way you look - act - and talk
Ability
Transportation - Distribution - and Logistics
First impression
Human Services
32. An action or series of actions determined by an employer for a specific process
Deduction
Procedure
Career Ladder
Loss
33. A specialized scientific work in manufacturing and industry
Application form
Gross pay
Technical
Entrepreneur
34. A long term work plan including education - training - and experience
Appearance
Marketing Sales and Service
Career Goal
Global Economy
35. A resource that involves communicating information with others
Networking
Services
Job lead
Study Skills
36. Natural method or way one thinks or learns
Goods
Learning Style
Job lead
Personality Type
37. Treating someone unfairly because of his or her race - religion - or sex
Discrimination
Career Ladder
Bachelor's degree
GED certificate
38. 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
Ethnic
Career Ladder
Global Economy
39. The computer network system through which information can be shared on the World Wide Web
Union dues
Vocation
Government and Public Administration
Internet
40. To eliminate unwanted applicants
Resource
Elective
Screen out
Attitude
41. A person who organizes - manages - and assumes the risk of a business
OOH (Occupational Outlook Handbook)
Architecture and Construction
Entrepreneur
Attitude
42. Personal standards by which one lives
Apprenticeship
Values
Self-Concept
Net pay
43. The steps one takes to make the best decision
Law of Demand
Decision-Making Process
Work
Plan
44. Being on time for work
Gross pay
Career cluster
Personnel
Punctuality
45. Cluster that involves developing - promoting - and providing goods to consumers; performing tasks for consumers
Enterprise
Marketing Sales and Service
Job Description
Commission
46. Possibility of loss
Deduction
Risk
Temporary Jobs
Union dues
47. Hearing - learning - and retaining verbal information
Global Economy
Listening Skills
Overtime
Listening
48. Temporary work during the summer
Work
Seasonal Work
Goods
Conflict
49. The ability to perform a certain activity well
Help-wanted ads
Law of Supply
Architecture and Construction
Skill
50. Money received for education that does not have to be repaid
Resource
Punctuality
Scholarships
Resume