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Career Orientation Basics
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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. Money received for education that does not have to be repaid
Working Conditions
Seasonal Work
Volunteering
Scholarships
2. An objective that a person wants to obtain and works to achieve
Goal
Temporary Jobs
Internship
Arts Audio-Video Technology and Communications
3. The total amount of an employee's earnings before deductions are taken out
Part-Time Jobs
Volunteering
Employment Outlook
Gross pay
4. Something a person wants to acheive later in life requiring much planning
On-the-job training (OJT)
Work Environment
Long-Term Goal
OOH
5. An amount of money charged by others for services
Fee
Personality Type
Bachelor's degree
Research
6. An objective that a person wants to obtain and works to achieve
Goal
Employment Outlook
Deduction
Punctuality
7. A course or program that teaches job skills
Vocational
Agriculture Food and Natural Resources
Part-Time Jobs
Personality Type
8. A group of employees
Personnel
Values Compromise
Sick Leave
Salary
9. A decision or plan that can be changed
Services
Union
Tentative Decision
Business Management and Administration
10. Generally 40 Hour work week or more
Applicant
Job Outlook
Employment Agency
Full-Time Job
11. Salary of wages given to an employee on a regular basis
Gross pay
Discrimination
Payroll
Vocational
12. Acquaint or become familiar with a new situation
Orientation
Stock
Occupation
Career Interest Area
13. (Occupational Outlook Handbook) A book used for researching the most common careers in the United States
Short-Term Goal
OOH
Brain Orientation
Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics
14. Payment for work - usually figured by the hour
Values
Personnel
Information Technology
Wage
15. A program where a person learns to do a certain job by working with a skilled worker
Deduction
Financial aid
Self-Esteem
Apprenticeship
16. Standard minimum pay received by an employee
Qualification
Base Pay
Deduction
GED certificate
17. Economic rules which influence consumer buying decisions
Laws of supply and demand
Networking
GED certificate
Producer
18. The type of job in which a person is employed
Union dues
Goal
Ability
Occupation
19. Following a person on the job to learn job duties and responsibilities
Decision-Making Process
Job Shadowing
Deduction
Wholesale
20. The work done over a period of years in one area of interest
Career
Letter of Application
Interview
Laws of supply and demand
21. Cluster that involves acquiring - investing - and managing money
Plan
Finance
Decision-Making Process
Tentative Decision
22. An action or series of actions determined by an employer for a specific process
Salary Range
Compromise
Procedure
Law Public Safety and Security
23. To employ oneself in a particular or specific field of work
Graduate school
Specializing
Wage
Personality
24. Possibility of loss
Salary Range
Apprenticeship
Career Action Plan
Risk
25. Cluster that involves services involving lodging - entertainment - recreation - and travel; food and beverage management
Punctuality
Elective
Consumer
Hospitality and Tourism
26. Help-wanted section of the newspaper that lists job openings
Work ethic
Resource
Goods
classifieds
27. The prospect for the future of a job or career
Procrastinator
Part-Time Jobs
Workforce diversity
Employment Outlook
28. Arrange things in order from the most important to the least important
Conflict
Services
Priortize
Decision
29. The choice between two or more possibilities
Check Stub
Decision
Marketing Sales and Service
Salary
30. Someone who creates a good or service
Personality Type
Law of Demand
Punctuality
Producer
31. Personal standards by which one lives
Values
Interview
Architecture and Construction
Loss
32. A group of workers who collectively bargin for higher wages - improved benefits - and better working conditions
Union
Time Management
Persistent
Loss
33. A wide variety of workers with different backgrounds - experiences - ideas - and skills in the workplace
Decision-Making Process
Workforce diversity
Values Compromise
Employer
34. A long term work plan including education - training - and experience
Screen out
Elective
Career Goal
Salary Range
35. A specialized scientific work in manufacturing and industry
Fee
Technical
Deduction
Stockholder
36. A person who owns stock in a company
Transportation - Distribution - and Logistics
Stock
Plan
Stockholder
37. The combination of attitude - values - interests - and behaviors that identify a person
Marketing Sales and Service
Follow-up Letter
Wholesale
Personality
38. A person who organizes - manages - and assumes the risk of a business
Graduate school
Qualification
Entrepreneur
Time Management
39. Generally 40 Hour work week or more
Arts Audio-Video Technology and Communications
Scholarships
Qualification
Full-Time Job
40. Occupational Information Network compiled by the United States Department of Labor
O*Net
Applicant
Global Economy
Union
41. Payment for work - usually figured by the hour
Transportation - Distribution - and Logistics
Risk
Work Values
Wage
42. Business owned by many people but treated by the law as though it were one person
Corporation
Work Values
Interview
Internship
43. A plan of action for education - training - and experience to reach a career goal
Career Ladder
Self-Concept
Bachelor's degree
Conflict
44. A person who will give a favorable report of a job applicant to the employer
Reference
Evaluate
Temporary Jobs
Interview
45. Standards one believes is important about their work
Loss
Work Values
ArkOscar
Procrastinator
46. The fee that colleges charge to take their classes
Discrimination
Tuition
Procedure
Values
47. Doing a job without pay to gain experience
Conflict
Job
Ability
Volunteering
48. The surrounding physical conditions of a workplace
Vendor
Plan
Work Environment
Job Outlook
49. When a person has to give up part of something they value to resolve a conflict
Information Technology
Specializing
Values Compromise
Persistent
50. Clash of ideas or values
Vocational
Apprenticeship
Applicant
Conflict