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Career Orientation Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. A personal evaluation to help you make decisions
Business Plan
Sick Leave
Assessment
Interest Inventory
2. The personality or activity by which a person is known
Identity
Reference
Work Values
Workforce diversity
3. Cluster that involves protective and legal services
Credit
Demographics
Long-Term Goal
Law Public Safety and Security
4. Clash of ideas or values
Base Pay
Conflict
Employment Outlook
Screen out
5. The person who has hires someone to do a job
Payroll
Decision
Employer
Goods
6. Business owned by one person
Credit
Graduate school
Vocational
Sole Proprietorship
7. Amount of money taken from an employee's gross pay for taxes - insurance - social security - and other benefits
Job Duty
Working Conditions
Deduction
Bi-Weekly Pay
8. The type of job in which a person is employed
Occupation
Applicant
Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics
Profit
9. When two or more companies rival for consumer dollars
Competition
Post-secondary education
Semi-monthly Pay
Compromise
10. Focusing or concentrating in a particular skill
Bi-Weekly Pay
Graduate school
Financial aid
Specializing
11. A group of employees
Schedule
Persistent
Personnel
Marketing Sales and Service
12. Cluster that involves developing - promoting - and providing goods to consumers; performing tasks for consumers
Follow-up Letter
Law of Demand
Marketing Sales and Service
Financial aid
13. An introductory letter written to a prospective employer
Letter of Application
Architecture and Construction
Business Plan
Punctuality
14. Natural method or way one thinks or learns
Learning Style
Law Public Safety and Security
Scholarships
Tentative Decision
15. The total amount of an employee's earnings before deductions are taken out
Salary Range
Research
Gross pay
Internet
16. Economic rules which influence consumer buying decisions
ArkOscar
Conflict
Laws of supply and demand
OOH
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
Occupation
Resource
Elective
Free Enterprise System
18. Something a person wants to acheive later in life requiring much planning
Education/Training Requirements
Long-Term Goal
Career Interest Area
Producer
19. Clash of ideas or values
Conflict
Lifestyle
Temporary Jobs
Career Goal
20. 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
Net pay
Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics
Year-to-date earnings
Retailing
21. The future prospects for employment in a particular job or field
Interest Inventory
Decision-Making Process
Job Outlook
Entry-Level Jobs
22. Collection of information about oneself
Job Description
Resource
Career Portfolio
Employment Agency
23. Business owned by many people but treated by the law as though it were one person
Corporation
Stockholder
Research
ArkOscar
24. An individual characterstic that helps one determine their personality
Payroll
Personality Trait
Job Outlook
Related Occupations
25. A group of workers who collectively bargin for higher wages - improved benefits - and better working conditions
Research
Professional
Graduate school
Union
26. Economic rules which influence consumer buying decisions
Wholesale
Screen out
Demographics
Laws of supply and demand
27. A belief - understanding - and recognition of one's own abilities
career cluster
Information Technology
Fee
Self-Esteem
28. Employment during special seasons
Values Compromise
Temporary Jobs
Workforce diversity
Networking
29. A plan which includes the education and training requirements to reach a career goal
Career Action Plan
Manufacturing
Outsourcing
Net pay
30. Any education or training following high school
Work ethic
Job Duty
Post-secondary education
Qualification
31. Buying a finished good or service with the intent to resell it by the unit
Enterprise
Career Portfolio
Resource
Retailing
32. Earnings above base pay
Services
Law of Demand
Compromise
Overtime
33. A temporary paid or unpaid position that involves direct work experience in a career field
Internship
Job Market
Fee
Goal
34. Undertaking or venture to make more with risk
Work Values
Enterprise
Job Duty
Prerequisite
35. Focusing or concentrating in a particular skill
Technology
Specializing
OOH
Wholesale
36. The ability to perform a certain activity well
Skill
Priortize
On-the-job training (OJT)
Job lead
37. Jobs with similiar work actvities
Business Management and Administration
Career Interest Area
Contract Labor
Seasonal Work
38. A belief - understanding - and recognition of one's own abilities
Year-to-date earnings
Self-Esteem
Agriculture Food and Natural Resources
Stockholder
39. Worldwide financial management system
Vocational
Global Economy
Help-wanted ads
Persistent
40. Time an employee may take off work with pay
Interview
Annual Leave
Self-Esteem
Personality Type
41. Business owned by one person
Sole Proprietorship
Graduate school
Job
Salary
42. To find out more by reading and talking to people
Career Goal
Technology
Research
Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics
43. Way in which one uses or utilitizes the brain best
Orientation
Brain Orientation
O*Net
Lifestyle
44. The work done over a period of years in one area of interest
Education/Training Requirements
Work ethic
Career
Personality Trait
45. Rules of behavior in the workplace
Volunteering
Employment Agency
Job Duty
Work ethic
46. The environment of the workplace
Working Conditions
Job Outlook
Manufacturing
Personnel
47. Cluster that involves planning - organizing - and directing business operations
Personality
Business Management and Administration
Learning Style
Seasonal Work
48. Work that a person does for pay
Semi-monthly Pay
Business Plan
Working Conditions
Job
49. To give up something to resolve a conflict
Payroll
Annual Leave
Job lead
Compromise
50. A wide variety of workers with different backgrounds - experiences - ideas - and skills in the workplace
Full-Time Job
Workforce diversity
Temporary Jobs
Entry-Level Jobs