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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. Focusing or concentrating in a particular skill
Career
Networking
Specializing
O*Net
2. Learning on the job
Global Economy
Assessment
Specializing
On-the-job training (OJT)
3. A thank you letter written following an interview
Stockholder
Post-secondary education
Follow-up Letter
classifieds
4. 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
Information Technology
Workforce diversity
Resume
Agriculture Food and Natural Resources
5. Receiving a paycheck every other Friday
Entry-Level Jobs
Bi-Weekly Pay
Business Plan
Attitude
6. The use of goods or service to make life easier creating new jobs while eliminating others
Employer
Values
Ability
Technology
7. Fees charged by an organization to unite employees
Credit
On-the-job training (OJT)
Union dues
Work Values
8. One who puts off doing things or making decisions
Job Shadowing
Information Technology
Procrastinator
O*Net
9. Possibility of loss
Work
Fringe benefits
Information Technology
Risk
10. A decision or plan that can be changed
Attitude
Education/Training Requirements
Short-Term Goal
Tentative Decision
11. To eliminate unwanted applicants
Screen out
Stock
Co-worker
Risk
12. An objective that a person wants to obtain and works to achieve
ArkOscar
Career Goal
Interview
Goal
13. A group of characteristics that collective form a general group of people with similiar interests - values - and behaviors
Punctuality
Personality Type
Listening Skills
Semi-monthly Pay
14. Doing a job without pay to gain experience
Reference
Occupation
Volunteering
Information Technology
15. Determining the best way for an individual to study - remember - or learn
Compromise
Outsourcing
Study Skills
Compromise
16. A resource that involves communicating information with others
Laws of supply and demand
Networking
Partnership
Goods
17. When two or more companies rival for consumer dollars
Temporary Jobs
Competition
Qualification
Employer
18. A person who owns stock in a company
Business Management and Administration
Stockholder
ArkOscar
Learning Style
19. A productive activity resulting in something useful
Work
Graduate school
Career Interest Area
Tuition
20. Someone who creates a good or service
Identity
Producer
Government and Public Administration
Credit
21. Average expected earnings from beginning to experienced pay
Prerequisite
Stock
Salary Range
Architecture and Construction
22. Pay that is based upon the percentage of sales
Job Market
Time Management
Human Services
Commission
23. An amount of money charged by others for services
Laws of supply and demand
Job Shadowing
Fee
Deduction
24. Cluster that involves the science of maintaining and improving people's physical and mental well-being
Study Skills
Health Science
Entry-Level Jobs
Services
25. An amount of money charged by others for services
Fee
Overtime
Architecture and Construction
Corporation
26. Cumulative time given to employees for personal or family illness with pay
Government and Public Administration
Sick Leave
Interest Inventory
Technology
27. A special skill - knowledge - or ability that enables a person to perform a particular job
Skill
Qualification
Union dues
Associate degree
28. Continuing for a long period of time to accomplish a task
Consumer
Ethnic
Persistent
Annual Leave
29. Natural method or way one thinks or learns
Profit
Employer
Learning Style
Job Market
30. The computer network system through which information can be shared on the World Wide Web
Values Compromise
Orientation
Bi-Weekly Pay
Internet
31. An occupation one is well-suited or qualified for
Bi-Weekly Pay
Sole Proprietorship
Vocation
Union dues
32. Standards one believes is important about their work
Tentative Decision
Work Values
Lifestyle
Reference
33. Following a person on the job to learn job duties and responsibilities
Salary Range
Vocation
Job Shadowing
OOH
34. A course or program that teaches job skills
Finance
Applicant
Vocational
Job Description
35. A temporary paid or unpaid position that involves direct work experience in a career field
Internship
Tentative Decision
Producer
Working Conditions
36. Characteristics or make-up of a population
Applicant
Job Description
Demographics
Schedule
37. A person who will give a favorable report of a job applicant to the employer
Decision
Reference
Research
Part-Time Jobs
38. Employment during special seasons
Employment Agency
Vendor
Temporary Jobs
Law of Supply
39. The personality or activity by which a person is known
Part-Time Jobs
Post-secondary education
Volunteering
Identity
40. Relating to a specific field with a high degree of skill or experience
Persistent
Interest
Union
Professional
41. The need for workers in a particular occupation or field
Technology
Self-Esteem
Job Market
Economy
42. A person who owns stock in a company
Free Enterprise System
Stockholder
Letter of Application
Associate degree
43. As the price increases producers produce more
Law of Supply
Application form
Listening Skills
Specializing
44. A special skill - knowledge - or ability that enables a person to perform a particular job
Prerequisite
Goal
Career Interest Area
Qualification
45. Worldwide financial management system
OOH
Global Economy
Goal
Scholarships
46. The instructional background and skills needed to qualify for employment
Corporation
Education/Training Requirements
Vocational
Short-Term Goal
47. Occupational Information Network compiled by the United States Department of Labor
O*Net
Manufacturing
Year-to-date earnings
Education and Training
48. Fixed amount of money earned - regardless of hours worked; pay that is calculated exactly the same for every check
Ethnic
Salary
Risk
Job Outlook
49. To look at closely and judge
Seasonal Work
Partnership
Evaluate
Personality Type
50. Cluster that involves visual and performing arts; multimedia communications; journalism
Apprenticeship
Arts Audio-Video Technology and Communications
Fringe benefits
Skill