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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. A person's outlook on life - usually positive or negative
Corporation
Fringe benefits
Attitude
Career Portfolio
2. Work that a person does for pay
Job
Decision-Making Process
Job Outlook
Competition
3. Someone who creates a good or service
Sick Leave
Scholarships
Tuition
Producer
4. 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
Free Enterprise System
Career Interest Area
Wholesale
Employment Agency
5. A program where a person learns to do a certain job by working with a skilled worker
Job lead
Work
Law of Supply
Apprenticeship
6. Earnings below the cost of doing business
Agriculture Food and Natural Resources
Values Compromise
Loss
Union
7. A program of study beyond a bachelor's degree
Graduate school
Job Outlook
Semi-monthly Pay
Salary
8. Cluster that involves developing - promoting - and providing goods to consumers; performing tasks for consumers
Elective
Marketing Sales and Service
Vendor
Study Skills
9. A specialized scientific work in manufacturing and industry
Specializing
Letter of Application
Career Interest Area
Technical
10. Agreement to complete a job for an amount of money
Bachelor's degree
Contract Labor
Commission
Retailing
11. Worldwide financial management system
Salary Range
Global Economy
Personality Trait
Resume
12. Doing a job without pay to gain experience
Volunteering
Research
Schedule
Education/Training Requirements
13. Cluster that involves developing - promoting - and providing goods to consumers; performing tasks for consumers
Marketing Sales and Service
Hospitality and Tourism
Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics
Resource
14. The instructional background and skills needed to qualify for employment
Job Duty
On-the-job training (OJT)
Education/Training Requirements
Conflict
15. Commoney known as Social Security
Contract Labor
Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA)
Decision-Making Process
Occupation
16. The steps one takes to make the best decision
Decision-Making Process
Personality Trait
Punctuality
Related Occupations
17. Using People in Mexico to assemble parts; utilizing external resources
Procrastinator
Personnel
Outsourcing
Career Goal
18. Economic rules which influence consumer buying decisions
Job Duty
Vocation
Laws of supply and demand
Fee
19. When a person has to give up part of something they value to resolve a conflict
Procedure
Screen out
Seasonal Work
Values Compromise
20. Worldwide financial management system
Vocational
Temporary Jobs
Global Economy
Sole Proprietorship
21. Cluster that involves the science of maintaining and improving people's physical and mental well-being
Health Science
Commission
Ethnic
Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA)
22. A share of the ownership in a company
Stock
Work Environment
O*Net
Semi-monthly Pay
23. Economic rules which influence consumer buying decisions
Brain Orientation
Internship
Laws of supply and demand
Internet
24. Earnings paid twice a month on designated dates
Bachelor's degree
Brain Orientation
Semi-monthly Pay
Union
25. The need for workers in a particular occupation or field
Job lead
Occupation
Job Market
Sole Proprietorship
26. A person who organizes - manages - and assumes the risk of a business
Entrepreneur
Brain Orientation
Self-Concept
O*Net
27. A certificate of completion awarded to a person after completing a program of study in a particular area - usually lasting 2 years
Listening Skills
Values Compromise
Associate degree
Elective
28. A temporary paid or unpaid position that involves direct work experience in a career field
Internship
Check Stub
Identity
Career Action Plan
29. Standards one believes is important about their work
Procrastinator
Work Values
Personality Type
Co-worker
30. The way in which a person views their own self-worth
Tuition
Self-Concept
Career Ladder
Learning Style
31. Possibility of loss
Marketing Sales and Service
Risk
Employer
Business Management and Administration
32. Jobs that last for a limited period of time
Semi-monthly Pay
Competition
Temporary Jobs
Internship
33. The personality or activity by which a person is known
Career Goal
Identity
Plan
Assessment
34. Money accounted for from January 1st through the current pay period
Health Science
Global Economy
Year-to-date earnings
Interest
35. A productive activity resulting in something useful
Career Portfolio
Transportation - Distribution - and Logistics
Personality Trait
Work
36. The instructional background and skills needed to qualify for employment
ArkOscar
Job Description
Education/Training Requirements
Job Outlook
37. Something a person wants to acheive later in life requiring much planning
Enterprise
Profit
Long-Term Goal
Self-Concept
38. Employment during special seasons
Temporary Jobs
Personality Trait
Volunteering
Follow-up Letter
39. A group of employees
Co-worker
Conflict
Personnel
Vendor
40. Business owned by one person
Procedure
Sole Proprietorship
Career
Employment Agency
41. A document stating that a person has passed a five-part test in the areas of writing - social studies - science - reading - and math
Enterprise
Prerequisite
GED certificate
Interest Inventory
42. A group of employees
Personnel
Screen out
Personality Trait
Work Environment
43. Hearing - learning - and retaining verbal information
Listening Skills
Loss
Financial aid
Business Management and Administration
44. A group of workers who collectively bargin for higher wages - improved benefits - and better working conditions
Work Values
Union
Learning Style
Schedule
45. Arrange things in order from the most important to the least important
Internship
Priortize
Temporary Jobs
Profit
46. A long term work plan including education - training - and experience
Career Goal
Help-wanted ads
Co-worker
Corporation
47. Pay that is based upon the percentage of sales
Networking
Commission
Marketing Sales and Service
Global Economy
48. The tool that employers use to find out basic information about job applicants
Application form
Human Services
Producer
Annual Leave
49. Cluster that involves designing and producing materials into intermediate or final products
Assessment
Manufacturing
Values Compromise
Union
50. Cumulative time given to employees for personal or family illness with pay
Sick Leave
Vocation
Gross pay
Career Ladder