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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.
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. Something a person wants to acheive later in life requiring much planning
Wholesale
Long-Term Goal
Self-Esteem
Law Public Safety and Security
2. Economic rules which influence consumer buying decisions
Competition
Full-Time Job
Laws of supply and demand
Apprenticeship
3. The use of goods or service to make life easier creating new jobs while eliminating others
Technology
Health Science
Ability
Demographics
4. Focusing or concentrating in a particular skill
Screen out
Salary
Specializing
Corporation
5. The ability or potential for learning new skills
Employment Outlook
Aptitude
Decision-Making Process
Priortize
6. To give up something to resolve a conflict
Compromise
Semi-monthly Pay
Work Values
Net pay
7. Help-wanted section of the newspaper that lists job openings
classifieds
Follow-up Letter
Internet
Job Description
8. A formal meeting between an employer and job applicant about a job opening
Workforce diversity
Apprenticeship
Interview
Temporary Jobs
9. Average expected earnings from beginning to experienced pay
On-the-job training (OJT)
Enterprise
Stock
Salary Range
10. A decision or plan that can be changed
Tentative Decision
Job Market
Agriculture Food and Natural Resources
Education and Training
11. An individual characterstic that helps one determine their personality
Personality Trait
Networking
Check Stub
Technical
12. An assessment that helps people identify their interest areas
Retailing
On-the-job training (OJT)
Overtime
Interest Inventory
13. The type of job in which a person is employed
Occupation
Job lead
Law of Demand
Professional
14. A person applying for a job
Transportation - Distribution - and Logistics
Applicant
Global Economy
Qualification
15. A long term work plan including education - training - and experience
Technical
Career Goal
Technology
Identity
16. A person who organizes - manages - and assumes the risk of a business
Arts Audio-Video Technology and Communications
Personality Trait
Research
Entrepreneur
17. The future prospects for employment in a particular job or field
Vocational
Law Public Safety and Security
Brain Orientation
Job Outlook
18. Determining the best way for an individual to study - remember - or learn
Wage
Study Skills
Marketing Sales and Service
Entry-Level Jobs
19. Way in which one uses or utilitizes the brain best
Gross pay
Bachelor's degree
Job Shadowing
Brain Orientation
20. Something a person wants to acheive later in life requiring much planning
Year-to-date earnings
O*Net
Research
Long-Term Goal
21. Help-wanted section of the newspaper that lists job openings
classifieds
Career Action Plan
Demographics
Post-secondary education
22. Earnings above base pay
Career Ladder
Payroll
Brain Orientation
Overtime
23. Agreement to complete a job for an amount of money
Applicant
Contract Labor
Law of Supply
Learning Style
24. 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
Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics
Retailing
Interest
classifieds
25. 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
Orientation
Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics
Compromise
Full-Time Job
26. Time an employee may take off work with pay
Occupation
Annual Leave
Application form
career cluster
27. Business owned by many people but treated by the law as though it were one person
Attitude
Corporation
Fee
Occupation
28. A program of study beyond a bachelor's degree
Bi-Weekly Pay
Identity
Graduate school
Resource
29. Business which two or more people own and operate
Scholarships
Resource
Partnership
Internet
30. A person applying for a job
Applicant
Full-Time Job
Graduate school
Skill
31. Jobs that last for a limited period of time
Temporary Jobs
Information Technology
Work Values
Tentative Decision
32. A temporary paid or unpaid position that involves direct work experience in a career field
Attitude
Self-Esteem
Internship
Co-worker
33. Payment for work - usually figured by the hour
Consumer
Wage
Associate degree
Union dues
34. A computerized career information delivery system
ArkOscar
Working Conditions
Priortize
Career
35. Standards one believes is important about their work
Internship
Agriculture Food and Natural Resources
Law Public Safety and Security
Work Values
36. Intangible work done for others as an occupation
Values Compromise
Fringe benefits
Services
Law of Demand
37. Extras provided by employers (other than wages)
Resource
Co-worker
Discrimination
Fringe benefits
38. A group of employees
Demographics
Follow-up Letter
Career Portfolio
Personnel
39. Standard minimum pay received by an employee
Base Pay
Union
Compromise
O*Net
40. The environment of the workplace
Research
Working Conditions
Professional
Net pay
41. Jobs or occupations grouped together because of similar knowledge or skills
Union dues
Tuition
Long-Term Goal
career cluster
42. Methods of paying for education/training - such as grants - scholarships - etc.
Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics
Applicant
Financial aid
Technology
43. A thank you letter written following an interview
Follow-up Letter
Occupation
Prerequisite
Screen out
44. A certificate of completion awarded to a person after completing a program of study in a particular area - usually lasting 2 years
Values
Associate degree
Business Plan
Payroll
45. The jobs that beginners start with to train them for higher-level jobs
Schedule
Consumer
Interview
Entry-Level Jobs
46. Learning on the job
Identity
Tentative Decision
Internship
On-the-job training (OJT)
47. A course or program that teaches job skills
Bi-Weekly Pay
Vocational
ArkOscar
Competition
48. A person who works with you
Co-worker
Reference
Specializing
Marketing Sales and Service
49. A long term work plan including education - training - and experience
Vendor
Career Portfolio
Commission
Career Goal
50. Tangible merchandise that you can see and touch
Goods
Procedure
Overtime
Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics