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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. Worldwide financial management system
Decision-Making Process
Global Economy
Wage
Scholarships
2. An action or series of actions determined by an employer for a specific process
Procedure
ArkOscar
Sole Proprietorship
Entry-Level Jobs
3. A personal evaluation to help you make decisions
Personality
Job Description
Assessment
Overtime
4. A person who owns stock in a company
Marketing Sales and Service
Short-Term Goal
Time Management
Stockholder
5. Rules of behavior in the workplace
Help-wanted ads
Agriculture Food and Natural Resources
Work ethic
Vendor
6. Someone who creates a good or service
Conflict
Values Compromise
Personnel
Producer
7. An occupation one is well-suited or qualified for
Job Outlook
Credit
Vocation
Learning Style
8. To eliminate unwanted applicants
Year-to-date earnings
Qualification
Information Technology
Screen out
9. Employment during special seasons
Temporary Jobs
Salary
Help-wanted ads
Free Enterprise System
10. Cumulative time given to employees for personal or family illness with pay
Career Action Plan
Prerequisite
Entrepreneur
Sick Leave
11. Cluster that involves providing education and training services; providing support services
Free Enterprise System
Education and Training
Goods
Identity
12. The need for workers in a particular occupation or field
Assessment
ArkOscar
Stock
Job Market
13. The type of job in which a person is employed
Graduate school
Occupation
Temporary Jobs
Working Conditions
14. A free flowing economy based upon the laws of supply and demand to allow individuals or companies to buy and sell goods and/or services at a profit
Aptitude
Free Enterprise System
Consumer
Goal
15. A long term work plan including education - training - and experience
Career Goal
On-the-job training (OJT)
Discrimination
Stockholder
16. Help-wanted section of the newspaper that lists job openings
Skill
Fringe benefits
classifieds
Orientation
17. Pay that is based upon the percentage of sales
Education/Training Requirements
Research
Check Stub
Commission
18. Amount of money taken from an employee's gross pay for taxes - insurance - social security - and other benefits
Procrastinator
Deduction
Research
Professional
19. A certificate of completion awarded to a person after completing a program of study in a particular area - usually lasting 2 years
Apprenticeship
Reference
Seasonal Work
Associate degree
20. Natural method or way one thinks or learns
Stockholder
Plan
Learning Style
Applicant
21. A program of study beyond a bachelor's degree
Occupation
Corporation
Sick Leave
Graduate school
22. Business which two or more people own and operate
Partnership
Business Plan
Free Enterprise System
Research
23. The tool that employers use to find out basic information about job applicants
Marketing Sales and Service
Financial aid
Application form
Global Economy
24. A group of employees
Scholarships
Job Outlook
Compromise
Personnel
25. Any education or training following high school
Work ethic
Loss
Resource
Post-secondary education
26. 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
Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics
Stockholder
Apprenticeship
Work Environment
27. To make a plan or arrange things that must be done
Conflict
Law of Demand
Follow-up Letter
Schedule
28. The person who has hires someone to do a job
Employer
Job lead
Co-worker
Agriculture Food and Natural Resources
29. Any information about possible job openings
Government and Public Administration
Scholarships
Occupation
Job lead
30. Rules of behavior in the workplace
Architecture and Construction
Annual Leave
Work ethic
Attitude
31. Characteristics or make-up of a population
Profit
Discrimination
Demographics
Goods
32. Hearing - learning - and retaining verbal information
Career Action Plan
Interest
Law of Supply
Listening Skills
33. A decision or plan that can be changed
Corporation
Bi-Weekly Pay
Risk
Tentative Decision
34. The instructional background and skills needed to qualify for employment
Education/Training Requirements
Work ethic
Job Description
Commission
35. The total amount of an employee's earnings before deductions are taken out
Orientation
Aptitude
Gross pay
Sick Leave
36. The choice between two or more possibilities
Co-worker
Outsourcing
Decision
Lifestyle
37. Someone who creates a good or service
Producer
Education and Training
Financial aid
Gross pay
38. Amount of money taken from an employee's gross pay for taxes - insurance - social security - and other benefits
Tentative Decision
Temporary Jobs
Deduction
Work
39. Way in which one uses or utilitizes the brain best
Career
Free Enterprise System
Job Duty
Brain Orientation
40. Someone who sells goods or services
Career Interest Area
Vendor
Skill
Salary Range
41. Someone who purchases a good or service with the intent to use it
Year-to-date earnings
Law Public Safety and Security
Government and Public Administration
Consumer
42. The person who has hires someone to do a job
Employment Agency
Employer
Retailing
Contract Labor
43. Temporary work during the summer
Values Compromise
Overtime
Seasonal Work
Base Pay
44. A thank you letter written following an interview
Follow-up Letter
Research
Punctuality
Skill
45. The surrounding physical conditions of a workplace
Work Environment
Fringe benefits
Seasonal Work
Year-to-date earnings
46. The steps one takes to make the best decision
Volunteering
Attitude
Decision-Making Process
Job lead
47. A person who will give a favorable report of a job applicant to the employer
Employer
Reference
Punctuality
Employment Agency
48. The prospect for the future of a job or career
Employment Outlook
Work ethic
Payroll
Fringe benefits
49. Cluster that involves the science of maintaining and improving people's physical and mental well-being
Services
Work
Health Science
Sole Proprietorship
50. Using People in Mexico to assemble parts; utilizing external resources
Outsourcing
Salary
Producer
Discrimination