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Career Orientation Basics
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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 fee that colleges charge to take their classes
Job Description
Tuition
Education and Training
Employer
2. Business owned by one person
Producer
Ethnic
Sole Proprietorship
Job Outlook
3. The need for workers in a particular occupation or field
Hospitality and Tourism
Job Market
Marketing Sales and Service
Personality
4. A resource that involves communicating information with others
Job Duty
Networking
Interest
Human Services
5. Undertaking or venture to make more with risk
Enterprise
Internet
Salary
Career Ladder
6. A person who will give a favorable report of a job applicant to the employer
Gross pay
Union
Applicant
Reference
7. Work that a person does for pay
Job
Compromise
Law Public Safety and Security
Workforce diversity
8. Clash of ideas or values
Commission
Related Occupations
Tentative Decision
Conflict
9. A group of workers who collectively bargin for higher wages - improved benefits - and better working conditions
Global Economy
Occupation
Career Ladder
Union
10. A computerized career information delivery system
Temporary Jobs
Fringe benefits
ArkOscar
classifieds
11. Money earned above the cost of doing business
Profit
Specializing
Work Environment
Economy
12. Receiving a paycheck every other Friday
Short-Term Goal
Bi-Weekly Pay
Employment Outlook
Sole Proprietorship
13. The tool that employers use to find out basic information about job applicants
Entrepreneur
Partnership
Application form
Follow-up Letter
14. Worldwide financial management system
Global Economy
Assessment
Employment Agency
Vendor
15. Fixed amount of money earned - regardless of hours worked; pay that is calculated exactly the same for every check
Values
Government and Public Administration
Schedule
Salary
16. Intangible work done for others as an occupation
Values Compromise
Sick Leave
classifieds
Services
17. Commoney known as Social Security
Fringe benefits
Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA)
Punctuality
Semi-monthly Pay
18. A plan of action for education - training - and experience to reach a career goal
Values
Career Ladder
Internet
Post-secondary education
19. Help-wanted section of the newspaper that lists job openings
classifieds
Post-secondary education
Decision-Making Process
Government and Public Administration
20. A course or program that teaches job skills
Base Pay
Salary Range
Tentative Decision
Vocational
21. An individual characterstic that helps one determine their personality
Personality Trait
Listening Skills
ArkOscar
Employment Agency
22. A person who owns stock in a company
Bi-Weekly Pay
Screen out
Stockholder
Apprenticeship
23. Tangible merchandise that you can see and touch
Career
Elective
O*Net
Goods
24. Someone who sells goods or services
Profit
Career Goal
Vendor
Skill
25. Possibility of loss
Post-secondary education
Risk
Employment Agency
Outsourcing
26. A skill that has been developed
Resume
Career Goal
Ability
Ethnic
27. Someone who purchases a good or service with the intent to use it
Decision-Making Process
Commission
Consumer
Personality Type
28. Something a person wants to acheive later in life requiring much planning
Payroll
Long-Term Goal
Manufacturing
Agriculture Food and Natural Resources
29. The instructional background and skills needed to qualify for employment
Education/Training Requirements
Agriculture Food and Natural Resources
ArkOscar
Stockholder
30. A person who owns stock in a company
Stockholder
Union
Economy
Internship
31. Units of measurement which schools use to determine whether or not students are progressing toward graduation
Credit
Health Science
Competition
Ability
32. The total amount of an employee's earnings before deductions are taken out
Gross pay
Work ethic
Law of Demand
Base Pay
33. Relating to races or groups of people with common customs
Ethnic
Career Goal
Internship
Vocation
34. Notices that employers put in the classified section of the paper describing their job openings
Personality Trait
Transportation - Distribution - and Logistics
Help-wanted ads
Networking
35. Cluster that involves providing education and training services; providing support services
Payroll
Listening Skills
Interview
Education and Training
36. To eliminate unwanted applicants
Discrimination
Screen out
Year-to-date earnings
Prerequisite
37. Money earned above the cost of doing business
Outsourcing
Profit
Short-Term Goal
Job Outlook
38. Earnings paid twice a month on designated dates
Decision
Elective
Demographics
Semi-monthly Pay
39. The personality or activity by which a person is known
Procedure
Identity
Personnel
Architecture and Construction
40. The amount of a paycheck after the deductions are taken out
Working Conditions
Self-Concept
career cluster
Net pay
41. Business owned by many people but treated by the law as though it were one person
Law of Supply
Corporation
Ethnic
Marketing Sales and Service
42. Jobs or careers belonging to the same group on the basis of similar knowledge and skills
Business Plan
Related Occupations
Interview
Qualification
43. To look at closely and judge
Evaluate
Contract Labor
Workforce diversity
Specializing
44. As the prices decreases producers purchase more
Listening Skills
Applicant
Law of Demand
Goods
45. Receiving a paycheck every other Friday
Goods
Base Pay
Punctuality
Bi-Weekly Pay
46. As the price increases producers produce more
Application form
Check Stub
Law of Supply
Goal
47. A group of employees
Personnel
Networking
Interest Inventory
Law Public Safety and Security
48. Cluster that involves growing and processing crops for human use; raising and processing animals for human use; using raw materials that occur naturally in the earth
Agriculture Food and Natural Resources
Self-Concept
Bachelor's degree
Specializing
49. A specialized scientific work in manufacturing and industry
Job lead
Risk
Technical
Workforce diversity
50. Time an employee may take off work with pay
Annual Leave
Manufacturing
Transportation - Distribution - and Logistics
Personality Type