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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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1. Employment during special seasons
Networking
Temporary Jobs
Employer
Contract Labor
2. An objective that a person wants to obtain and works to achieve
O*Net
Orientation
Goal
Semi-monthly Pay
3. Continuing for a long period of time to accomplish a task
Decision
Architecture and Construction
Ability
Persistent
4. Work that a person does for pay
Decision-Making Process
Job
Law of Demand
Year-to-date earnings
5. To make a plan or arrange things that must be done
Volunteering
Schedule
Overtime
Persistent
6. To employ oneself in a particular or specific field of work
Discrimination
Technology
Co-worker
Specializing
7. A specialized scientific work in manufacturing and industry
Orientation
Workforce diversity
Technical
Specializing
8. Cumulative time given to employees for personal or family illness with pay
Sick Leave
Year-to-date earnings
Consumer
Job Duty
9. A special skill - knowledge - or ability that enables a person to perform a particular job
Qualification
Gross pay
Salary Range
GED certificate
10. The type of job in which a person is employed
Fee
Temporary Jobs
Career Action Plan
Occupation
11. A specialized scientific work in manufacturing and industry
Gross pay
Technical
Reference
Related Occupations
12. Salary of wages given to an employee on a regular basis
Payroll
Sick Leave
Professional
Corporation
13. Business which two or more people own and operate
Partnership
Compromise
Ethnic
Internet
14. A person who owns stock in a company
GED certificate
Stockholder
Discrimination
Decision
15. To give up something to resolve a conflict
Compromise
Ability
Volunteering
Union dues
16. Following a person on the job to learn job duties and responsibilities
Stockholder
Qualification
Skill
Job Shadowing
17. Jobs or careers belonging to the same group on the basis of similar knowledge and skills
Resource
Prerequisite
Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA)
Related Occupations
18. An assessment that helps people identify their interest areas
Applicant
Job Shadowing
Interest Inventory
Brain Orientation
19. Relating to races or groups of people with common customs
Finance
Punctuality
Ethnic
Personality Type
20. Natural method or way one thinks or learns
Goal
Specializing
Learning Style
Conflict
21. 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
Semi-monthly Pay
Free Enterprise System
Job
Occupation
22. Someone who creates a good or service
Internet
Post-secondary education
Producer
Workforce diversity
23. Cluster that involves computer and Web-based services; telecommunications services
Employment Agency
Follow-up Letter
Information Technology
Personality
24. The computer network system through which information can be shared on the World Wide Web
Economy
Employer
Internet
Deduction
25. Being on time for work
Manufacturing
Interest Inventory
Self-Esteem
Punctuality
26. When two or more companies rival for consumer dollars
Long-Term Goal
Business Management and Administration
Net pay
Competition
27. Fees charged by an organization to unite employees
Union dues
Workforce diversity
Commission
Manufacturing
28. Cluster that involves services that improve people's quality of life and promote safe - healthy communities
Tentative Decision
Personality
Human Services
Graduate school
29. The thing a person enjoys doing or thinking about
Wage
Applicant
Post-secondary education
Interest
30. A temporary paid or unpaid position that involves direct work experience in a career field
Evaluate
Vocational
Evaluate
Internship
31. Determining the best way for an individual to study - remember - or learn
Listening Skills
Skill
Study Skills
Base Pay
32. The use of goods or service to make life easier creating new jobs while eliminating others
Goal
Listening Skills
Technology
Financial aid
33. The combination of attitude - values - interests - and behaviors that identify a person
Personnel
Economy
Net pay
Personality
34. Hearing - learning - and retaining verbal information
Health Science
Outsourcing
Sick Leave
Listening Skills
35. Money earned above the cost of doing business
Profit
Job
Letter of Application
Tentative Decision
36. A person's outlook on life - usually positive or negative
Ethnic
Career Portfolio
Part-Time Jobs
Attitude
37. The ability to perform a certain activity well
Reference
Skill
Technical
Networking
38. The ability to perform a certain activity well
Compromise
Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics
Help-wanted ads
Skill
39. A definition of work duties
Job Description
Tuition
Enterprise
Salary
40. Careful use of resources including money and materials
Stockholder
Job
Career Goal
Economy
41. Intangible work done for others as an occupation
Services
Work Values
Apprenticeship
Year-to-date earnings
42. Payment for work - usually figured by the hour
Global Economy
Employer
Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics
Wage
43. A service business designed to help put employees and employers together
Hospitality and Tourism
Employment Agency
Architecture and Construction
Employer
44. Cluster that involves protective and legal services
Government and Public Administration
Persistent
Law Public Safety and Security
Work ethic
45. The course of action one decides to take at the end of the decision-making process
Arts Audio-Video Technology and Communications
Plan
Post-secondary education
Economy
46. A wide variety of workers with different backgrounds - experiences - ideas - and skills in the workplace
Plan
Qualification
Workforce diversity
Work Environment
47. Fees charged by an organization to unite employees
Union dues
Bi-Weekly Pay
Entrepreneur
Laws of supply and demand
48. The computer network system through which information can be shared on the World Wide Web
Job Description
GED certificate
Commission
Internet
49. As the price increases producers produce more
Law of Supply
Technical
Profit
Law Public Safety and Security
50. A thank you letter written following an interview
Follow-up Letter
Procrastinator
Personality Type
Goal