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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. A person who will give a favorable report of a job applicant to the employer
Part-Time Jobs
Reference
Evaluate
Business Plan
2. Anything a person has or uses to reach a goal
Resource
Fringe benefits
Career
Values Compromise
3. Notices that employers put in the classified section of the paper describing their job openings
Entry-Level Jobs
Help-wanted ads
Plan
Personality Trait
4. Cumulative time given to employees for personal or family illness with pay
Net pay
Sick Leave
Personality
Stockholder
5. Cluster that involves computer and Web-based services; telecommunications services
Fringe benefits
Free Enterprise System
Profit
Information Technology
6. Worldwide financial management system
Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics
Sick Leave
Global Economy
Salary Range
7. The surrounding physical conditions of a workplace
Business Management and Administration
Work Environment
Professional
Follow-up Letter
8. Natural method or way one thinks or learns
Professional
Job Description
Credit
Learning Style
9. Help-wanted section of the newspaper that lists job openings
Wholesale
Specializing
career cluster
classifieds
10. Standards one believes is important about their work
Work Values
Workforce diversity
Apprenticeship
Career Portfolio
11. An occupation one is well-suited or qualified for
O*Net
Agriculture Food and Natural Resources
Vocation
Volunteering
12. A definition of work duties
Values
Related Occupations
Fee
Job Description
13. Careful use of resources including money and materials
Economy
Career Goal
Part-Time Jobs
Qualification
14. Careful use of resources including money and materials
Seasonal Work
Law of Demand
Listening Skills
Economy
15. 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
Agriculture Food and Natural Resources
Fringe benefits
Decision
Reference
16. Cluster that involves services that improve people's quality of life and promote safe - healthy communities
Human Services
Orientation
Follow-up Letter
Learning Style
17. 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
Application form
Career
Free Enterprise System
Seasonal Work
18. A plan which includes the education and training requirements to reach a career goal
Procedure
Career Action Plan
Laws of supply and demand
Tentative Decision
19. A belief - understanding - and recognition of one's own abilities
Self-Esteem
Wholesale
career cluster
Prerequisite
20. Jobs or occupations grouped together because of similar knowledge or skills
career cluster
Check Stub
Working Conditions
Law Public Safety and Security
21. A specialized scientific work in manufacturing and industry
Technical
Corporation
Working Conditions
Job Duty
22. Jobs that last for a limited period of time
Payroll
Business Management and Administration
Temporary Jobs
Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA)
23. A service business designed to help put employees and employers together
Co-worker
Transportation - Distribution - and Logistics
Employment Agency
Orientation
24. To look at closely and judge
Evaluate
Brain Orientation
Goal
Scholarships
25. One who puts off doing things or making decisions
Union dues
Corporation
Punctuality
Procrastinator
26. Commoney known as Social Security
Discrimination
Bi-Weekly Pay
Personnel
Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA)
27. Average expected earnings from beginning to experienced pay
Annual Leave
Personnel
Salary Range
Overtime
28. The environment of the workplace
Transportation - Distribution - and Logistics
Working Conditions
Health Science
Persistent
29. Work that a person does for pay
Semi-monthly Pay
Transportation - Distribution - and Logistics
Entry-Level Jobs
Job
30. The thing a person enjoys doing or thinking about
Union dues
Networking
Interest
Ability
31. Methods of paying for education/training - such as grants - scholarships - etc.
Follow-up Letter
Sick Leave
Financial aid
Schedule
32. Money received for education that does not have to be repaid
Application form
Scholarships
Assessment
Career Ladder
33. Earnings below the cost of doing business
Brain Orientation
Loss
Law of Demand
Sole Proprietorship
34. As the price increases producers produce more
Law Public Safety and Security
Law of Supply
Values
Working Conditions
35. To eliminate unwanted applicants
Screen out
Temporary Jobs
Economy
Salary Range
36. Any education or training following high school
Post-secondary education
Contract Labor
Fringe benefits
Ability
37. The type of job in which a person is employed
Job Duty
Occupation
Job Outlook
Architecture and Construction
38. A group of workers who collectively bargin for higher wages - improved benefits - and better working conditions
Enterprise
Law Public Safety and Security
Union
Career Interest Area
39. The thing a person enjoys doing or thinking about
Outsourcing
Interest
Wage
Co-worker
40. A person who organizes - manages - and assumes the risk of a business
Entrepreneur
Goal
Priortize
Outsourcing
41. Business which two or more people own and operate
career cluster
Payroll
Partnership
Competition
42. Cluster that involves services involving lodging - entertainment - recreation - and travel; food and beverage management
Architecture and Construction
Sick Leave
Hospitality and Tourism
Personality Type
43. The tool that employers use to find out basic information about job applicants
Full-Time Job
Occupation
Application form
Decision
44. Personal standards by which one lives
Architecture and Construction
Values
Employer
O*Net
45. A short written description of an applicant's personal data - education - and experience - related to a job
Vendor
Fringe benefits
Resume
Stock
46. A productive activity resulting in something useful
Plan
Technology
Net pay
Work
47. A program where a person learns to do a certain job by working with a skilled worker
Outsourcing
Prerequisite
Apprenticeship
Career
48. A formal meeting between an employer and job applicant about a job opening
Salary
Interview
Profit
Personnel
49. Jobs with similiar work actvities
Specializing
Bi-Weekly Pay
Career Interest Area
classifieds
50. Standard minimum pay received by an employee
Evaluate
Base Pay
Partnership
Follow-up Letter