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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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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. Earnings above base pay
Overtime
Deduction
Personality Type
Stockholder
2. Cluster that involves services involving lodging - entertainment - recreation - and travel; food and beverage management
Hospitality and Tourism
Ability
Finance
Technical
3. Worldwide financial management system
Global Economy
Sole Proprietorship
Fee
Interview
4. Payment for work - usually figured by the hour
Graduate school
Hospitality and Tourism
Health Science
Wage
5. To eliminate unwanted applicants
Identity
Education/Training Requirements
Screen out
Employment Agency
6. Rules of behavior in the workplace
Fringe benefits
Career Portfolio
Work ethic
Post-secondary education
7. The prospect for the future of a job or career
Career
Working Conditions
Employment Outlook
Attitude
8. Business owned by one person
Information Technology
Business Management and Administration
Sole Proprietorship
Free Enterprise System
9. The course of action one decides to take at the end of the decision-making process
Credit
Evaluate
O*Net
Plan
10. Cluster that involves protective and legal services
Law Public Safety and Security
Entrepreneur
Commission
Union dues
11. A person who organizes - manages - and assumes the risk of a business
On-the-job training (OJT)
Entrepreneur
Career Portfolio
Arts Audio-Video Technology and Communications
12. A group of characteristics that collective form a general group of people with similiar interests - values - and behaviors
Personality Type
Producer
Outsourcing
classifieds
13. Cluster that involves acquiring - investing - and managing money
Finance
Work Environment
Career Goal
Tentative Decision
14. Using People in Mexico to assemble parts; utilizing external resources
Union
Career Interest Area
Hospitality and Tourism
Outsourcing
15. Relating to a specific field with a high degree of skill or experience
Union
Professional
Partnership
Persistent
16. Commoney known as Social Security
Sick Leave
Enterprise
Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA)
Business Plan
17. A service business designed to help put employees and employers together
Laws of supply and demand
Employment Agency
Government and Public Administration
Decision-Making Process
18. Help-wanted section of the newspaper that lists job openings
Credit
classifieds
Career Action Plan
Volunteering
19. A course that is not required but can be chosen by a student according to their interests
Goal
Manufacturing
Study Skills
Elective
20. A certificate of completion awarded to a person after completing a program of study in a particular area - usually lasting 2 years
Outsourcing
Associate degree
Personality
Tuition
21. The computer network system through which information can be shared on the World Wide Web
Prerequisite
Union
Agriculture Food and Natural Resources
Internet
22. Following a person on the job to learn job duties and responsibilities
Internet
Interview
Co-worker
Job Shadowing
23. As the price increases producers produce more
Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics
Follow-up Letter
Help-wanted ads
Law of Supply
24. Jobs that last for a limited period of time
Help-wanted ads
classifieds
Base Pay
Temporary Jobs
25. Possibility of loss
Risk
Ability
Persistent
Human Services
26. A formal meeting between an employer and job applicant about a job opening
Marketing Sales and Service
Work Environment
Interview
Scholarships
27. Temporary work during the summer
Seasonal Work
Work Environment
Part-Time Jobs
Year-to-date earnings
28. Earnings paid twice a month on designated dates
Law Public Safety and Security
Semi-monthly Pay
Associate degree
Services
29. A service business designed to help put employees and employers together
Long-Term Goal
Employment Agency
Risk
Global Economy
30. The work done over a period of years in one area of interest
Law of Supply
Procrastinator
Career Action Plan
Career
31. Anything a person has or uses to reach a goal
Business Plan
Career Interest Area
Resource
Personality Trait
32. Commoney known as Social Security
Commission
Temporary Jobs
Job
Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA)
33. Personal standards by which one lives
Stockholder
Attitude
Retailing
Values
34. Cluster that involves designing and producing materials into intermediate or final products
Manufacturing
Work
Fee
Scholarships
35. Characteristics or make-up of a population
Demographics
Internet
classifieds
Job Shadowing
36. 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
Long-Term Goal
Competition
Free Enterprise System
Compromise
37. Salary of wages given to an employee on a regular basis
Union
Finance
Payroll
Help-wanted ads
38. When two or more companies rival for consumer dollars
Technical
Competition
Fee
Services
39. 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
Base Pay
Related Occupations
Government and Public Administration
40. Typical way of life
Ability
Lifestyle
Screen out
Aptitude
41. A temporary paid or unpaid position that involves direct work experience in a career field
Law Public Safety and Security
Partnership
Internship
Employment Outlook
42. The fee that colleges charge to take their classes
Lifestyle
Temporary Jobs
Tuition
Values Compromise
43. Cluster that involves designing and producing materials into intermediate or final products
Tentative Decision
Vocational
Personnel
Manufacturing
44. To find out more by reading and talking to people
Self-Concept
Personality Type
Research
Job Shadowing
45. Collection of information about oneself
Time Management
Priortize
Career Portfolio
Values Compromise
46. Using People in Mexico to assemble parts; utilizing external resources
Semi-monthly Pay
Scholarships
Outsourcing
career cluster
47. The ability or potential for learning new skills
Aptitude
Skill
Overtime
Post-secondary education
48. Someone who creates a good or service
Work Environment
Producer
Work Environment
Wage
49. Natural method or way one thinks or learns
Learning Style
Plan
Qualification
Vocational
50. A definition of work duties
Job Description
Law of Demand
Wage
Lifestyle