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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. Units of measurement which schools use to determine whether or not students are progressing toward graduation
Evaluate
Credit
Seasonal Work
Co-worker
2. A service business designed to help put employees and employers together
Post-secondary education
Employment Agency
Seasonal Work
Producer
3. Typical way of life
Salary Range
Lifestyle
Skill
classifieds
4. Cluster that involves designing and producing materials into intermediate or final products
Manufacturing
classifieds
Arts Audio-Video Technology and Communications
OOH
5. Temporary work during the summer
O*Net
Career Ladder
Seasonal Work
Specializing
6. Someone who purchases a good or service with the intent to use it
Evaluate
Internet
Schedule
Consumer
7. A definition of work duties
Attitude
Employment Outlook
Job Description
Study Skills
8. A special skill - knowledge - or ability that enables a person to perform a particular job
Job Outlook
Procedure
Qualification
Decision
9. Fees charged by an organization to unite employees
Internet
Union dues
Schedule
Discrimination
10. Receiving a paycheck every other Friday
Bi-Weekly Pay
Job
Gross pay
GED certificate
11. The steps one takes to make the best decision
Personality Trait
Decision-Making Process
Lifestyle
Competition
12. 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
Learning Style
Agriculture Food and Natural Resources
Finance
Priortize
13. Payment for work - usually figured by the hour
Net pay
Wage
Persistent
Job Description
14. Help-wanted section of the newspaper that lists job openings
Sick Leave
Free Enterprise System
classifieds
O*Net
15. A description of the goals of a business and how it will operate
Outsourcing
Business Plan
Bachelor's degree
Tuition
16. Learning on the job
Check Stub
On-the-job training (OJT)
Union dues
Learning Style
17. The instructional background and skills needed to qualify for employment
Overtime
Resource
Working Conditions
Education/Training Requirements
18. Acquaint or become familiar with a new situation
Gross pay
Career Ladder
Ethnic
Orientation
19. An individual characterstic that helps one determine their personality
Personality Trait
Corporation
Goal
Architecture and Construction
20. A group of workers who collectively bargin for higher wages - improved benefits - and better working conditions
Internship
Procrastinator
Union
Apprenticeship
21. Worldwide financial management system
Punctuality
Salary
Entry-Level Jobs
Global Economy
22. Someone who creates a good or service
Skill
Job Shadowing
Education/Training Requirements
Producer
23. Cluster that involves the systematic use of observations and experiments to gain knowledge about the world; the practical use of scientific knowledge; solving practical problems by combining science and mathematics with technology; the study of numbe
Work Environment
Help-wanted ads
Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics
Persistent
24. Typical way of life
Lifestyle
Union
Free Enterprise System
Consumer
25. The tool that employers use to find out basic information about job applicants
Contract Labor
Career Portfolio
Application form
Competition
26. The environment of the workplace
Working Conditions
Volunteering
Job
Arts Audio-Video Technology and Communications
27. Tangible merchandise that you can see and touch
Economy
Seasonal Work
Union dues
Goods
28. Arrange things in order from the most important to the least important
Interest Inventory
Wholesale
Priortize
Elective
29. A productive activity resulting in something useful
Manufacturing
Identity
Brain Orientation
Work
30. A person's outlook on life - usually positive or negative
Compromise
Attitude
Business Management and Administration
Check Stub
31. A skill that has been developed
Goal
Help-wanted ads
Job Outlook
Ability
32. Part of the paycheck that shows earnings and deductions
Check Stub
Finance
Decision-Making Process
Short-Term Goal
33. The amount of a paycheck after the deductions are taken out
Job Duty
Net pay
Producer
Specializing
34. As the price increases producers produce more
Law of Supply
Free Enterprise System
Technology
Career Goal
35. Anything a person has or uses to reach a goal
Help-wanted ads
Working Conditions
Identity
Resource
36. The steps one takes to make the best decision
Scholarships
Decision-Making Process
Identity
Evaluate
37. The instructional background and skills needed to qualify for employment
Vocational
Scholarships
Manufacturing
Education/Training Requirements
38. The environment of the workplace
Short-Term Goal
Aptitude
Partnership
Working Conditions
39. Cluster that involves designing - building - and repairing structures
Education/Training Requirements
Architecture and Construction
Part-Time Jobs
Lifestyle
40. To look at closely and judge
Self-Concept
Work ethic
Evaluate
Bachelor's degree
41. Average expected earnings from beginning to experienced pay
Financial aid
Fee
Salary Range
Health Science
42. A course or program that teaches job skills
Vocational
Associate degree
Job Outlook
Long-Term Goal
43. Money received for education that does not have to be repaid
Scholarships
Listening Skills
GED certificate
Prerequisite
44. The ability to perform a certain activity well
Learning Style
Entry-Level Jobs
Credit
Skill
45. Something one wants to obtain in the near future generally less than 5 years
Applicant
Working Conditions
Short-Term Goal
Job Outlook
46. A share of the ownership in a company
Fee
Stock
Seasonal Work
Job Shadowing
47. Standard minimum pay received by an employee
Union
Base Pay
Check Stub
Study Skills
48. Receiving a paycheck every other Friday
Long-Term Goal
Skill
Skill
Bi-Weekly Pay
49. Occupational Information Network compiled by the United States Department of Labor
O*Net
Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics
Temporary Jobs
Architecture and Construction
50. Business which two or more people own and operate
Listening Skills
Persistent
Partnership
Full-Time Job