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Employability Skills Vocab

Instructions:

Answer 23 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. Reading - writing - arithmetic
Basic Skills
Using information
Using technology
Spatial Ability

2. Ability to handle resources - information - and time
Using technology
Interpersonal skills
Resource Management
Quantitative Ability

3. Movement of yourself and others - hand-eye coordination
Auditory and Speech Ability
Control Movement
Quantitative Ability
Reaction time

4. How well you can see
Endurance
Perceptual Ability
Flexibility - Balance - and Coordination
Visual Ability

5. Understanding how things are connected
Interpersonal skills
Auditory and Speech Ability
Physical strength
Using systems

6. Able to make connections between ideas and information
Basic Skills
Personal Qualities
Visual Ability
Thinking Skills

7. Ability to focus closely on task at hand regardless of surroundings
Interpersonal skills
Attentiveness
Spatial Ability
Using systems

8. Using written or spoken words
Verbal Ability
Idea Generation and Reasoning
Personal Qualities
Auditory and Speech Ability

9. Ability to learn how things fit together
Spatial Ability
Flexibility - Balance - and Coordination
Quantitative Ability
Physical strength

10. Ability to keep functioning without breaks
Using technology
Endurance
Perceptual Ability
Quantitative Ability

11. Steady - flexible - and responsive hands with good vision
Basic Skills
Control Movement
Fine Manipulative Ability
Memory

12. Show responsibility and effort
Personal Qualities
Verbal Ability
Interpersonal skills
Endurance

13. Combines good ear and pleasing voice
Using information
Auditory and Speech Ability
Verbal Ability
Flexibility - Balance - and Coordination

14. Ability to use necessary information in getting the job done
Physical strength
Endurance
Using information
Flexibility - Balance - and Coordination

15. Ability to retain thoughts - facts - and instructions
Fine Manipulative Ability
Memory
Perceptual Ability
Physical strength

16. Ability to see meaning in numbers
Control Movement
Visual Ability
Quantitative Ability
Physical strength

17. Think fast - respond to situation in a quick manner
Perceptual Ability
Resource Management
Reaction time
Using technology

18. Working with computers - machines - and systems
Auditory and Speech Ability
Flexibility - Balance - and Coordination
Verbal Ability
Using technology

19. Ability to move body in different ways - one hand knows what the other is doing
Thinking Skills
Endurance
Flexibility - Balance - and Coordination
Using information

20. Ability to work well with others
Personal Qualities
Thinking Skills
Interpersonal skills
Reaction time

21. Combination of creativity and practical thinking
Memory
Using information
Idea Generation and Reasoning
Perceptual Ability

22. Ability to exert maximum muscle strength
Interpersonal skills
Verbal Ability
Physical strength
Memory

23. Ability to act on what you see
Thinking Skills
Idea Generation and Reasoning
Flexibility - Balance - and Coordination
Perceptual Ability