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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.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
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. Collection of information about oneself
Values
Career Portfolio
Lifestyle
Career Interest Area
2. Any education or training following high school
Evaluate
Base Pay
Post-secondary education
Associate degree
3. The ability or potential for learning new skills
GED certificate
Apprenticeship
Research
Aptitude
4. The work done over a period of years in one area of interest
Interest
Corporation
Career
ArkOscar
5. Undertaking or venture to make more with risk
Personality
Job
Sole Proprietorship
Enterprise
6. 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
Applicant
Loss
Free Enterprise System
Work
7. A skill that has been developed
Business Management and Administration
Consumer
Ability
Decision-Making Process
8. To buy in bulk form wi the intent to resell by the case
Payroll
Wholesale
Attitude
Specializing
9. A person's outlook on life - usually positive or negative
Architecture and Construction
Attitude
Financial aid
Fee
10. Collection of information about oneself
Career Portfolio
Annual Leave
Financial aid
Professional
11. A plan of action for education - training - and experience to reach a career goal
Career Ladder
Career Interest Area
Conflict
Global Economy
12. A document stating that a person has passed a five-part test in the areas of writing - social studies - science - reading - and math
Business Management and Administration
Career Goal
GED certificate
Career Ladder
13. Cluster that involves regulating and managing local - state - and federal government
On-the-job training (OJT)
Decision-Making Process
Government and Public Administration
Bi-Weekly Pay
14. Earnings below the cost of doing business
Corporation
Loss
Job lead
Competition
15. Someone who creates a good or service
Goods
Self-Esteem
Law of Demand
Producer
16. Cluster that involves coordinating the movement of people - goods - and services; career cluster - jobs or occupations grouped together because of similar knowledge or skills
Ethnic
Transportation - Distribution - and Logistics
Self-Concept
Work Environment
17. To look at closely and judge
Job Duty
Services
Evaluate
Internship
18. Money received for education that does not have to be repaid
Punctuality
Scholarships
Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics
Identity
19. Intangible work done for others as an occupation
Research
Priortize
Services
Architecture and Construction
20. A person's outlook on life - usually positive or negative
Arts Audio-Video Technology and Communications
Partnership
Payroll
Attitude
21. A temporary paid or unpaid position that involves direct work experience in a career field
Networking
Volunteering
Internship
career cluster
22. Cluster that involves designing - building - and repairing structures
Laws of supply and demand
Year-to-date earnings
Architecture and Construction
Decision
23. Using People in Mexico to assemble parts; utilizing external resources
Sole Proprietorship
Career Goal
Outsourcing
Resource
24. Worldwide financial management system
Year-to-date earnings
Research
Sick Leave
Global Economy
25. Way in which one uses or utilitizes the brain best
Employment Agency
Persistent
Brain Orientation
Education/Training Requirements
26. The surrounding physical conditions of a workplace
Discrimination
Long-Term Goal
Work Environment
Competition
27. A group of characteristics that collective form a general group of people with similiar interests - values - and behaviors
Transportation - Distribution - and Logistics
Annual Leave
Personality Type
Job Shadowing
28. Cluster that involves designing and producing materials into intermediate or final products
Arts Audio-Video Technology and Communications
Career Ladder
Manufacturing
Interview
29. The work done over a period of years in one area of interest
Fringe benefits
Corporation
Career Interest Area
Career
30. Cluster that involves services that improve people's quality of life and promote safe - healthy communities
Specializing
Working Conditions
Technical
Human Services
31. A course that is not required but can be chosen by a student according to their interests
Decision-Making Process
Screen out
Partnership
Elective
32. The amount of a paycheck after the deductions are taken out
Personality
Overtime
Net pay
ArkOscar
33. A group of employees
Job Market
Job Shadowing
Business Management and Administration
Personnel
34. A formal meeting between an employer and job applicant about a job opening
Sole Proprietorship
Interview
Union
Competition
35. Cumulative time given to employees for personal or family illness with pay
Qualification
Sick Leave
Employment Agency
Job Shadowing
36. Average expected earnings from beginning to experienced pay
Research
Employment Agency
Law Public Safety and Security
Salary Range
37. A program where a person learns to do a certain job by working with a skilled worker
Apprenticeship
Tentative Decision
Values
Gross pay
38. A person who works with you
Post-secondary education
Co-worker
Stock
Tentative Decision
39. Acquaint or become familiar with a new situation
Orientation
Check Stub
Prerequisite
Loss
40. An objective that a person wants to obtain and works to achieve
Education/Training Requirements
Specializing
Services
Goal
41. Cluster that involves the science of maintaining and improving people's physical and mental well-being
Health Science
Career Goal
Tuition
Corporation
42. Personal standards by which one lives
Listening Skills
Tuition
Career Ladder
Values
43. The computer network system through which information can be shared on the World Wide Web
Compromise
Elective
Screen out
Internet
44. Anything a person has or uses to reach a goal
Career Ladder
Employment Agency
Education and Training
Resource
45. The instructional background and skills needed to qualify for employment
Education/Training Requirements
Self-Concept
Values Compromise
Study Skills
46. A computerized career information delivery system
Letter of Application
ArkOscar
Finance
Priortize
47. The choice between two or more possibilities
Decision
Interview
Brain Orientation
Values
48. Possibility of loss
Applicant
Screen out
Values Compromise
Risk
49. A program of study beyond a bachelor's degree
Identity
Stock
Follow-up Letter
Graduate school
50. Occupational Information Network compiled by the United States Department of Labor
Law Public Safety and Security
O*Net
Fringe benefits
Financial aid