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Career Orientation Basics
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literacy
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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. Natural method or way one thinks or learns
Learning Style
Credit
Vendor
Skill
2. Personal standards by which one lives
Bi-Weekly Pay
Job Shadowing
Temporary Jobs
Values
3. Focusing or concentrating in a particular skill
Career Ladder
Finance
Aptitude
Specializing
4. The ability or potential for learning new skills
Aptitude
Work Values
Entrepreneur
Graduate school
5. A person's outlook on life - usually positive or negative
Attitude
Transportation - Distribution - and Logistics
Temporary Jobs
Help-wanted ads
6. Average expected earnings from beginning to experienced pay
Employment Agency
Short-Term Goal
Salary Range
Work Environment
7. The type of job in which a person is employed
Occupation
Loss
Transportation - Distribution - and Logistics
Demographics
8. Tangible merchandise that you can see and touch
Plan
Goods
Tentative Decision
Law of Demand
9. Methods of paying for education/training - such as grants - scholarships - etc.
Fee
Financial aid
Deduction
ArkOscar
10. Money received for education that does not have to be repaid
On-the-job training (OJT)
Salary
career cluster
Scholarships
11. The person who has hires someone to do a job
Employer
Ability
Reference
Profit
12. When a person has to give up part of something they value to resolve a conflict
Procedure
Assessment
Personnel
Values Compromise
13. The instructional background and skills needed to qualify for employment
Risk
Education/Training Requirements
career cluster
Co-worker
14. Cluster that involves visual and performing arts; multimedia communications; journalism
Arts Audio-Video Technology and Communications
Attitude
Bachelor's degree
Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics
15. A specialized scientific work in manufacturing and industry
Job Market
Technical
Full-Time Job
Ethnic
16. Cluster that involves services that improve people's quality of life and promote safe - healthy communities
Full-Time Job
Human Services
Occupation
Job Market
17. To buy in bulk form wi the intent to resell by the case
Overtime
Gross pay
Graduate school
Wholesale
18. Cluster that involves protective and legal services
Law Public Safety and Security
Evaluate
Temporary Jobs
classifieds
19. A personal evaluation to help you make decisions
O*Net
Assessment
Deduction
Annual Leave
20. A person who works with you
Co-worker
Base Pay
Goal
Prerequisite
21. Earnings above base pay
Overtime
Producer
Self-Esteem
Resume
22. A course that is required before another course can be taken
Prerequisite
Bi-Weekly Pay
Goal
Gross pay
23. Earnings below the cost of doing business
Work Environment
Loss
Networking
Ethnic
24. Standards one believes is important about their work
Employment Outlook
Employment Outlook
Related Occupations
Work Values
25. Possibility of loss
Competition
Risk
Listening Skills
Long-Term Goal
26. Jobs with similiar work actvities
Orientation
Follow-up Letter
Career Interest Area
Related Occupations
27. To eliminate unwanted applicants
Corporation
Information Technology
Consumer
Screen out
28. An action or series of actions determined by an employer for a specific process
Procedure
Assessment
Personality Type
Work
29. A productive activity resulting in something useful
Attitude
Career
Demographics
Work
30. Earnings below the cost of doing business
Loss
Study Skills
Demographics
Annual Leave
31. Help-wanted section of the newspaper that lists job openings
classifieds
Specializing
Architecture and Construction
Interest
32. The work done over a period of years in one area of interest
Career
Net pay
On-the-job training (OJT)
Services
33. Someone who sells goods or services
Research
Schedule
Vendor
Full-Time Job
34. Standard minimum pay received by an employee
Co-worker
Work
Base Pay
Reference
35. Standards one believes is important about their work
Job
Work Values
Interest Inventory
Professional
36. A program where a person learns to do a certain job by working with a skilled worker
Profit
Contract Labor
Apprenticeship
classifieds
37. Agreement to complete a job for an amount of money
Employment Agency
Contract Labor
Work Environment
Agriculture Food and Natural Resources
38. Focusing or concentrating in a particular skill
Specializing
Loss
Work Environment
Discrimination
39. Salary of wages given to an employee on a regular basis
Vocational
Outsourcing
Research
Payroll
40. (Occupational Outlook Handbook) A book used for researching the most common careers in the United States
OOH
Volunteering
Job lead
Transportation - Distribution - and Logistics
41. Payment for work - usually figured by the hour
Wage
Workforce diversity
Goods
Entrepreneur
42. Any education or training following high school
Post-secondary education
Career Portfolio
Internship
Ability
43. Generally 40 Hour work week or more
Full-Time Job
Job lead
Orientation
Entry-Level Jobs
44. A temporary paid or unpaid position that involves direct work experience in a career field
Tentative Decision
Education/Training Requirements
Internship
Risk
45. Way in which one uses or utilitizes the brain best
Decision-Making Process
Personnel
Brain Orientation
Demographics
46. The need for workers in a particular occupation or field
career cluster
Job Market
Goal
Commission
47. Cluster that involves designing - building - and repairing structures
Job lead
Resume
Architecture and Construction
Seasonal Work
48. A person's outlook on life - usually positive or negative
Temporary Jobs
Personnel
ArkOscar
Attitude
49. Business owned by many people but treated by the law as though it were one person
Ability
Reference
Corporation
Base Pay
50. Undertaking or venture to make more with risk
O*Net
Schedule
Enterprise
Technology