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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. Generally 40 Hour work week or more
Outsourcing
Semi-monthly Pay
Prerequisite
Full-Time Job
2. A person who will give a favorable report of a job applicant to the employer
Reference
GED certificate
Seasonal Work
On-the-job training (OJT)
3. Intangible work done for others as an occupation
Services
Personality
Schedule
Plan
4. Cluster that involves services involving lodging - entertainment - recreation - and travel; food and beverage management
Listening Skills
Overtime
Hospitality and Tourism
Resource
5. A service business designed to help put employees and employers together
Career
GED certificate
Employment Agency
Specializing
6. Extras provided by employers (other than wages)
Orientation
Fringe benefits
Specializing
Interview
7. Jobs requiring less than 35-40 hours a week - depending on the employer
Part-Time Jobs
Listening Skills
Related Occupations
Vocational
8. The course of action one decides to take at the end of the decision-making process
Networking
Demographics
Plan
Lifestyle
9. A document stating that a person has passed a five-part test in the areas of writing - social studies - science - reading - and math
Work Values
Technology
Application form
GED certificate
10. Pay that is based upon the percentage of sales
Commission
Time Management
Job Market
O*Net
11. To eliminate unwanted applicants
Competition
Screen out
Personality
Financial aid
12. An action or series of actions determined by an employer for a specific process
Full-Time Job
Agriculture Food and Natural Resources
Procedure
Personality
13. Jobs that last for a limited period of time
career cluster
Temporary Jobs
Finance
Help-wanted ads
14. Typical way of life
Personality Trait
Job lead
Lifestyle
Economy
15. Cluster that involves coordinating the movement of people - goods - and services; career cluster - jobs or occupations grouped together because of similar knowledge or skills
Transportation - Distribution - and Logistics
Salary
Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA)
Orientation
16. Acquaint or become familiar with a new situation
Discrimination
Listening Skills
Orientation
Follow-up Letter
17. Receiving a paycheck every other Friday
Check Stub
Self-Esteem
Co-worker
Bi-Weekly Pay
18. Relating to races or groups of people with common customs
Application form
O*Net
Applicant
Ethnic
19. A long term work plan including education - training - and experience
Career Goal
Retailing
Ability
Apprenticeship
20. To give up something to resolve a conflict
Applicant
Temporary Jobs
Compromise
Graduate school
21. The ability or potential for learning new skills
Discrimination
Ethnic
Union
Aptitude
22. A person who organizes - manages - and assumes the risk of a business
Skill
Related Occupations
Technical
Entrepreneur
23. A share of the ownership in a company
Long-Term Goal
Stock
Work Values
Evaluate
24. Undertaking or venture to make more with risk
Work ethic
Enterprise
Brain Orientation
Personality Type
25. Collection of information about oneself
Interview
Work Values
Job Outlook
Career Portfolio
26. Anything a person has or uses to reach a goal
Personality Type
Job Description
Resource
Workforce diversity
27. A course that is not required but can be chosen by a student according to their interests
Associate degree
Transportation - Distribution - and Logistics
Lifestyle
Elective
28. Business owned by many people but treated by the law as though it were one person
Related Occupations
Job Market
Corporation
Job Duty
29. Salary of wages given to an employee on a regular basis
Associate degree
Payroll
Base Pay
Information Technology
30. As the prices decreases producers purchase more
Work Environment
Law of Demand
Sole Proprietorship
Free Enterprise System
31. Following a person on the job to learn job duties and responsibilities
Job Shadowing
Free Enterprise System
Part-Time Jobs
Manufacturing
32. A skill that has been developed
Hospitality and Tourism
Ability
Base Pay
Job Duty
33. Jobs with similiar work actvities
Orientation
Career Interest Area
Agriculture Food and Natural Resources
Skill
34. Work that a person does for pay
Letter of Application
Free Enterprise System
Wholesale
Job
35. Continuing for a long period of time to accomplish a task
Persistent
Study Skills
Help-wanted ads
Career Goal
36. Commoney known as Social Security
Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA)
classifieds
Persistent
Decision
37. Notices that employers put in the classified section of the paper describing their job openings
Help-wanted ads
Commission
Profit
Elective
38. To look at closely and judge
Self-Concept
Evaluate
Time Management
O*Net
39. A task one is expected to perform on the job
Related Occupations
Qualification
Research
Job Duty
40. A special skill - knowledge - or ability that enables a person to perform a particular job
Qualification
Internship
Entry-Level Jobs
Job Shadowing
41. The thing a person enjoys doing or thinking about
Salary Range
Interest
Contract Labor
Procrastinator
42. The use of goods or service to make life easier creating new jobs while eliminating others
Workforce diversity
Gross pay
Technology
Tentative Decision
43. To find out more by reading and talking to people
Values
Research
Applicant
Values Compromise
44. A person who will give a favorable report of a job applicant to the employer
Listening Skills
Decision
Reference
Career Ladder
45. The need for workers in a particular occupation or field
Study Skills
Salary
Job Market
Information Technology
46. A person applying for a job
Applicant
Law of Supply
Entrepreneur
Education/Training Requirements
47. Money earned above the cost of doing business
Year-to-date earnings
Profit
Short-Term Goal
Elective
48. The combination of attitude - values - interests - and behaviors that identify a person
Specializing
Personality
Interview
Conflict
49. Determining the best way for an individual to study - remember - or learn
Employment Agency
Research
Demographics
Study Skills
50. An assessment that helps people identify their interest areas
Finance
Assessment
Information Technology
Interest Inventory