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Career Orientation Basics
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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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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. Something one wants to obtain in the near future generally less than 5 years
Government and Public Administration
Decision-Making Process
Education/Training Requirements
Short-Term Goal
2. A person's outlook on life - usually positive or negative
Attitude
Career Goal
Research
Stock
3. Cluster that involves developing - promoting - and providing goods to consumers; performing tasks for consumers
Retailing
Marketing Sales and Service
Wage
Stockholder
4. The instructional background and skills needed to qualify for employment
Full-Time Job
Part-Time Jobs
Education/Training Requirements
Plan
5. (Occupational Outlook Handbook) A book used for researching the most common careers in the United States
Vocational
Employment Outlook
OOH
Producer
6. Agreement to complete a job for an amount of money
Employer
Ability
Contract Labor
Career Portfolio
7. To employ oneself in a particular or specific field of work
Wage
Related Occupations
Specializing
Stock
8. Help-wanted section of the newspaper that lists job openings
Year-to-date earnings
Interview
classifieds
Time Management
9. Work that a person does for pay
Job
Stockholder
Values
Graduate school
10. The person who has hires someone to do a job
Personnel
Procrastinator
Agriculture Food and Natural Resources
Employer
11. Receiving a paycheck every other Friday
Semi-monthly Pay
Bi-Weekly Pay
Application form
Retailing
12. Cluster that involves services involving lodging - entertainment - recreation - and travel; food and beverage management
Hospitality and Tourism
Values Compromise
Work Environment
Assessment
13. Average expected earnings from beginning to experienced pay
Employment Outlook
Aptitude
Salary Range
Education and Training
14. An occupation one is well-suited or qualified for
Prerequisite
Vocation
Employment Outlook
Job
15. Economic rules which influence consumer buying decisions
OOH
Laws of supply and demand
Procedure
Partnership
16. Economic rules which influence consumer buying decisions
Prerequisite
Laws of supply and demand
Union
Producer
17. Anything a person has or uses to reach a goal
Letter of Application
ArkOscar
Stockholder
Resource
18. A certificate of completion awarded to a person after completing a program of study in a particular area - usually lasting 2 years
Associate degree
Self-Esteem
Listening Skills
Attitude
19. A service business designed to help put employees and employers together
Government and Public Administration
Stock
Values
Employment Agency
20. Rules of behavior in the workplace
Personnel
Employer
Personality Trait
Work ethic
21. A service business designed to help put employees and employers together
Post-secondary education
Employment Agency
Stockholder
Law Public Safety and Security
22. Cluster that involves the science of maintaining and improving people's physical and mental well-being
Health Science
Consumer
Vocation
Job
23. A personal evaluation to help you make decisions
Procedure
Commission
Assessment
Decision-Making Process
24. The instructional background and skills needed to qualify for employment
Long-Term Goal
Employment Outlook
Producer
Education/Training Requirements
25. Careful use of resources including money and materials
Economy
Job Description
Job Outlook
Short-Term Goal
26. Extras provided by employers (other than wages)
Fringe benefits
Procrastinator
Orientation
Union dues
27. A group of workers who collectively bargin for higher wages - improved benefits - and better working conditions
Free Enterprise System
Arts Audio-Video Technology and Communications
Union
Wholesale
28. Part of the paycheck that shows earnings and deductions
Related Occupations
Ability
Wholesale
Check Stub
29. Employment during special seasons
Check Stub
Temporary Jobs
Gross pay
Bachelor's degree
30. Business owned by one person
Commission
Sole Proprietorship
Volunteering
Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics
31. A course that is required before another course can be taken
Prerequisite
Learning Style
Risk
Plan
32. An individual characterstic that helps one determine their personality
Personality Trait
Specializing
Compromise
Services
33. Relating to a specific field with a high degree of skill or experience
Base Pay
Apprenticeship
Professional
Career Ladder
34. Cluster that involves developing - promoting - and providing goods to consumers; performing tasks for consumers
Screen out
Marketing Sales and Service
Occupation
Personnel
35. A formal meeting between an employer and job applicant about a job opening
Health Science
Technology
Interview
Screen out
36. The type of job in which a person is employed
Plan
Occupation
Base Pay
Temporary Jobs
37. To make a plan or arrange things that must be done
Agriculture Food and Natural Resources
Schedule
Research
Commission
38. Pay that is based upon the percentage of sales
Employment Agency
Applicant
Commission
Interest Inventory
39. Pay that is based upon the percentage of sales
Commission
Education and Training
Prerequisite
Education/Training Requirements
40. Earnings below the cost of doing business
Risk
Loss
Hospitality and Tourism
Long-Term Goal
41. Characteristics or make-up of a population
Priortize
Demographics
Apprenticeship
Job
42. Methods of paying for education/training - such as grants - scholarships - etc.
Procedure
Values Compromise
Graduate school
Financial aid
43. Hearing - learning - and retaining verbal information
Producer
Global Economy
Listening Skills
Corporation
44. A short written description of an applicant's personal data - education - and experience - related to a job
Job Shadowing
Resume
Annual Leave
Work
45. A definition of work duties
Union
Qualification
Marketing Sales and Service
Job Description
46. Cluster that involves acquiring - investing - and managing money
career cluster
Finance
Conflict
Research
47. Way in which one uses or utilitizes the brain best
Long-Term Goal
Gross pay
Procedure
Brain Orientation
48. Relating to races or groups of people with common customs
Ethnic
Services
Skill
Outsourcing
49. Relating to a specific field with a high degree of skill or experience
Identity
Part-Time Jobs
Net pay
Professional
50. The fee that colleges charge to take their classes
Information Technology
Salary
Tuition
Sick Leave