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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.
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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 short written description of an applicant's personal data - education - and experience - related to a job
Law of Demand
Resume
Apprenticeship
Financial aid
2. A resource that involves communicating information with others
Self-Esteem
Architecture and Construction
Annual Leave
Networking
3. Business owned by many people but treated by the law as though it were one person
Persistent
Law Public Safety and Security
Transportation - Distribution - and Logistics
Corporation
4. Careful use of resources including money and materials
Career
Laws of supply and demand
Manufacturing
Economy
5. A program where a person learns to do a certain job by working with a skilled worker
Apprenticeship
Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA)
Sole Proprietorship
Net pay
6. Jobs with similiar work actvities
Career Interest Area
Enterprise
Sick Leave
Business Plan
7. When a person has to give up part of something they value to resolve a conflict
Volunteering
Tuition
Graduate school
Values Compromise
8. Worldwide financial management system
career cluster
Global Economy
Fee
Job lead
9. The way in which a person views their own self-worth
Elective
Education and Training
Self-Concept
Workforce diversity
10. The use of goods or service to make life easier creating new jobs while eliminating others
Education and Training
Technology
Transportation - Distribution - and Logistics
Job lead
11. Business owned by one person
Work Environment
Full-Time Job
Producer
Sole Proprietorship
12. The prospect for the future of a job or career
Wholesale
Employment Outlook
Entry-Level Jobs
Study Skills
13. Amount of money taken from an employee's gross pay for taxes - insurance - social security - and other benefits
Deduction
Contract Labor
Tuition
Government and Public Administration
14. Cluster that involves services involving lodging - entertainment - recreation - and travel; food and beverage management
Goods
Research
Hospitality and Tourism
Corporation
15. A description of the goals of a business and how it will operate
Post-secondary education
O*Net
Aptitude
Business Plan
16. Cluster that involves computer and Web-based services; telecommunications services
Job Market
Information Technology
Learning Style
Values Compromise
17. A thank you letter written following an interview
Arts Audio-Video Technology and Communications
Commission
Follow-up Letter
Bachelor's degree
18. The computer network system through which information can be shared on the World Wide Web
Occupation
Internet
Producer
Time Management
19. Rules of behavior in the workplace
Vocational
Assessment
Work ethic
Enterprise
20. A computerized career information delivery system
ArkOscar
Fringe benefits
Fee
Co-worker
21. A personal evaluation to help you make decisions
Personnel
Assessment
Procrastinator
Ethnic
22. A long term work plan including education - training - and experience
Law Public Safety and Security
Career Goal
Commission
Government and Public Administration
23. Time an employee may take off work with pay
GED certificate
OOH
Decision
Annual Leave
24. Jobs or occupations grouped together because of similar knowledge or skills
career cluster
Commission
Screen out
Tuition
25. Careful use of resources including money and materials
Long-Term Goal
Economy
Tentative Decision
Specializing
26. The ability to perform a certain activity well
Economy
Fringe benefits
Seasonal Work
Skill
27. (Occupational Outlook Handbook) A book used for researching the most common careers in the United States
OOH
Resource
Work
Job Description
28. Tangible merchandise that you can see and touch
Goods
Seasonal Work
GED certificate
Education/Training Requirements
29. Agreement to complete a job for an amount of money
Contract Labor
Technical
Long-Term Goal
Self-Concept
30. (Occupational Outlook Handbook) A book used for researching the most common careers in the United States
Fee
OOH
Personnel
Deduction
31. Employment during special seasons
Job
Temporary Jobs
Resource
Transportation - Distribution - and Logistics
32. Jobs or careers belonging to the same group on the basis of similar knowledge and skills
Values
Profit
Related Occupations
Assessment
33. A program of study beyond a bachelor's degree
Graduate school
Scholarships
Job Duty
career cluster
34. Intangible work done for others as an occupation
Services
Interest
Prerequisite
Corporation
35. When two or more companies rival for consumer dollars
Economy
Competition
Job
Career Ladder
36. Typical way of life
Free Enterprise System
Lifestyle
Job Duty
Interview
37. Learning on the job
classifieds
Schedule
Manufacturing
On-the-job training (OJT)
38. Notices that employers put in the classified section of the paper describing their job openings
Overtime
Help-wanted ads
Enterprise
Manufacturing
39. A program where a person learns to do a certain job by working with a skilled worker
Apprenticeship
Manufacturing
Volunteering
Fee
40. Relating to races or groups of people with common customs
Outsourcing
Ethnic
Learning Style
Decision
41. Possibility of loss
Risk
Technology
Punctuality
Job Description
42. A person who works with you
Health Science
Co-worker
Work ethic
Interest
43. Cluster that involves the science of maintaining and improving people's physical and mental well-being
Health Science
Personality Trait
Law of Demand
Ability
44. Payment for work - usually figured by the hour
Applicant
Wage
Research
Study Skills
45. A decision or plan that can be changed
Tentative Decision
Lifestyle
O*Net
Career Portfolio
46. A computerized career information delivery system
Work Environment
Evaluate
Check Stub
ArkOscar
47. A personal evaluation to help you make decisions
Punctuality
Outsourcing
Assessment
Punctuality
48. Cluster that involves regulating and managing local - state - and federal government
Government and Public Administration
Retailing
Career Portfolio
Work
49. A group of workers who collectively bargin for higher wages - improved benefits - and better working conditions
Fee
Skill
Demographics
Union
50. 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
Law Public Safety and Security
Internship
Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics
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