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Career Orientation Basics
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literacy
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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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1. 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
Evaluate
Assessment
Free Enterprise System
Schedule
2. A course that is required before another course can be taken
Business Management and Administration
Ethnic
Elective
Prerequisite
3. Something a person wants to acheive later in life requiring much planning
Associate degree
Long-Term Goal
Producer
Internship
4. Cluster that involves services that improve people's quality of life and promote safe - healthy communities
Apprenticeship
Manufacturing
Human Services
Values Compromise
5. A productive activity resulting in something useful
Skill
Decision
Ability
Work
6. The thing a person enjoys doing or thinking about
Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA)
Salary Range
Interest
Procedure
7. To make a plan or arrange things that must be done
Short-Term Goal
Technical
Career Interest Area
Schedule
8. The personality or activity by which a person is known
Employment Outlook
Fringe benefits
Identity
Check Stub
9. As the prices decreases producers purchase more
Demographics
Law of Demand
Base Pay
Screen out
10. A program of study beyond a bachelor's degree
Self-Concept
Graduate school
Career Goal
Career Portfolio
11. The person who has hires someone to do a job
Elective
Self-Concept
Discrimination
Employer
12. Clash of ideas or values
Conflict
Technology
Payroll
Deduction
13. Cluster that involves visual and performing arts; multimedia communications; journalism
Stock
Career Action Plan
Arts Audio-Video Technology and Communications
Reference
14. A plan of action for education - training - and experience to reach a career goal
Research
Business Plan
Career Ladder
Consumer
15. Pay that is based upon the percentage of sales
Health Science
Job Outlook
Commission
Resource
16. The way in which a person views their own self-worth
Evaluate
Self-Concept
Transportation - Distribution - and Logistics
Retailing
17. Focusing or concentrating in a particular skill
Specializing
Hospitality and Tourism
Architecture and Construction
Loss
18. Fixed amount of money earned - regardless of hours worked; pay that is calculated exactly the same for every check
Arts Audio-Video Technology and Communications
Specializing
Workforce diversity
Salary
19. Earnings paid twice a month on designated dates
Salary Range
Working Conditions
Law Public Safety and Security
Semi-monthly Pay
20. A person applying for a job
Applicant
classifieds
Business Management and Administration
Technical
21. Typical way of life
Lifestyle
Interview
Vocation
Business Management and Administration
22. The tool that employers use to find out basic information about job applicants
Application form
Specializing
Sole Proprietorship
Goods
23. Cluster that involves the science of maintaining and improving people's physical and mental well-being
Competition
Health Science
Ability
Interview
24. Possibility of loss
Employment Agency
Partnership
Risk
Interest Inventory
25. Standards one believes is important about their work
Ethnic
Associate degree
Work Values
Stockholder
26. As the price increases producers produce more
Qualification
Information Technology
Law of Supply
Business Management and Administration
27. Extras provided by employers (other than wages)
Personality Trait
Fringe benefits
Lifestyle
Contract Labor
28. A short written description of an applicant's personal data - education - and experience - related to a job
Volunteering
Prerequisite
Tentative Decision
Resume
29. Cluster that involves computer and Web-based services; telecommunications services
Professional
Fringe benefits
Information Technology
Procedure
30. Extras provided by employers (other than wages)
Fringe benefits
Volunteering
Networking
Technical
31. When a person has to give up part of something they value to resolve a conflict
Producer
Risk
Sole Proprietorship
Values Compromise
32. Undertaking or venture to make more with risk
Follow-up Letter
Enterprise
Loss
Credit
33. To buy in bulk form wi the intent to resell by the case
Entrepreneur
Financial aid
Priortize
Wholesale
34. Generally 40 Hour work week or more
Architecture and Construction
Full-Time Job
Salary
Contract Labor
35. Following a person on the job to learn job duties and responsibilities
Business Management and Administration
Decision-Making Process
Job Shadowing
Wholesale
36. Anything a person has or uses to reach a goal
Ability
career cluster
Resource
Letter of Application
37. Salary of wages given to an employee on a regular basis
Job Shadowing
Reference
Values Compromise
Payroll
38. Cluster that involves designing - building - and repairing structures
Job lead
Check Stub
Architecture and Construction
Law of Demand
39. A share of the ownership in a company
Stock
Employment Outlook
Employment Outlook
Gross pay
40. Cluster that involves coordinating the movement of people - goods - and services; career cluster - jobs or occupations grouped together because of similar knowledge or skills
Transportation - Distribution - and Logistics
Seasonal Work
Education/Training Requirements
Part-Time Jobs
41. Standard minimum pay received by an employee
Base Pay
Year-to-date earnings
Work
Sick Leave
42. The amount of a paycheck after the deductions are taken out
Entrepreneur
Tentative Decision
Outsourcing
Net pay
43. A definition of work duties
Global Economy
Temporary Jobs
Job Description
Time Management
44. Something one wants to obtain in the near future generally less than 5 years
Salary Range
Short-Term Goal
Marketing Sales and Service
Health Science
45. A service business designed to help put employees and employers together
Employment Agency
Law Public Safety and Security
Listening Skills
Follow-up Letter
46. Business owned by one person
Study Skills
Sole Proprietorship
Salary Range
OOH
47. Employment during special seasons
Temporary Jobs
Co-worker
Applicant
Financial aid
48. Cluster that involves visual and performing arts; multimedia communications; journalism
Help-wanted ads
Finance
Arts Audio-Video Technology and Communications
Employer
49. An introductory letter written to a prospective employer
Annual Leave
Applicant
Values Compromise
Letter of Application
50. Hearing - learning - and retaining verbal information
Bachelor's degree
Identity
Listening Skills
Employer