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Career Vocab
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Subject
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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 belief - understanding - and recognition of one's own abilities
Ability
Bachelor's degree
Self-Esteem
Career
2. The thing a person enjoys doing or thinking about
Vocational
Career
Brain Orientation
Interest
3. Determining the best way for an individual to study - remember - or learn
Interest Inventory
Personality Type
Study Skills
Financial aid
4. To find out more by reading and talking to people
Research
Career Goal
Occupation
ArkOscar
5. A temporary paid or unpaid position that involves direct work experience in a career field
Internship
Job Market
Schedule
Health Science
6. Cluster that involves computer and Web-based services; telecommunications services
Study Skills
Information Technology
Part-Time Jobs
Payroll
7. Cluster that involves providing education and training services; providing support services
Career
Year-to-date earnings
Education and Training
Outsourcing
8. Hearing - learning - and retaining verbal information
Job
Listening Skills
Specializing
Job Market
9. A description of the goals of a business and how it will operate
Aptitude
Part-Time Jobs
Business Plan
Salary Range
10. Focusing or concentrating in a particular skill
Vendor
Career Ladder
Specializing
Discrimination
11. A document stating that a person has passed a five-part test in the areas of writing - social studies - science - reading - and math
GED certificate
Skill
Post-secondary education
Values Compromise
12. A person's outlook on life - usually positive or negative
Attitude
Temporary Jobs
Employment Agency
Risk
13. An action or series of actions determined by an employer for a specific process
Specializing
Education/Training Requirements
Procedure
Goods
14. Careful use of resources including money and materials
Government and Public Administration
Semi-monthly Pay
ArkOscar
Economy
15. The future prospects for employment in a particular job or field
Scholarships
Networking
Job Outlook
Screen out
16. Following a person on the job to learn job duties and responsibilities
Job Shadowing
Free Enterprise System
Technical
Job Description
17. Any information about possible job openings
Deduction
Co-worker
Information Technology
Job lead
18. An amount of money charged by others for services
Personnel
Fee
Values Compromise
On-the-job training (OJT)
19. Characteristics or make-up of a population
Career Interest Area
Job Shadowing
Personality
Demographics
20. Money received for education that does not have to be repaid
Scholarships
Year-to-date earnings
Priortize
Law of Supply
21. The ability to perform a certain activity well
Skill
Working Conditions
Seasonal Work
Career Interest Area
22. Business which two or more people own and operate
Work ethic
Partnership
Retailing
Semi-monthly Pay
23. A definition of work duties
Job Description
Fringe benefits
Education and Training
Economy
24. A skill that you have developed
Ability
Law Public Safety and Security
Competition
Job Shadowing
25. The computer network system through which information can be shared on the World Wide Web
Personnel
Enterprise
Internet
Interview
26. Jobs with similiar work actvities
Vendor
Study Skills
Related Occupations
Career Interest Area
27. Occupational Information Network compiled by the United States Department of Labor
Workforce diversity
Law of Demand
Partnership
O*Net
28. A course or program that teaches job skills
Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA)
Vocational
Agriculture Food and Natural Resources
Associate degree
29. A share of the ownership in a company
Stock
Year-to-date earnings
Enterprise
Architecture and Construction
30. An individual characterstic that helps one determine their personality
Resource
Law Public Safety and Security
Procrastinator
Personality Trait
31. Jobs that last for a limited period of time
Temporary Jobs
Consumer
Job Shadowing
Goods
32. Generally 40 Hour work week or more
Job lead
Vendor
Work ethic
Full-Time Job
33. Something one wants to obtain in the near future generally less than 5 years
Short-Term Goal
Sick Leave
Technology
Career Goal
34. notices that employers put in the classified section of the paper describing their job openings
Help-wanted ads
Specializing
Career Interest Area
Personality Trait
35. A person who works with you
Related Occupations
Co-worker
Classifieds
Hospitality and Tourism
36. Amount of money taken from an employee's gross pay for taxes - insurance - social security - and other benefits
Consumer
Deduction
Workforce diversity
Employment Outlook
37. To make a plan or arrange things that must be done
Schedule
Letter of Application
Personality Trait
Partnership
38. A resource that involves communicating information with others
Networking
Enterprise
Personality
Job Description
39. The way in which a person views their own self-worth
Enterprise
Self-Concept
Attitude
Work
40. 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
Post-secondary education
Government and Public Administration
Fringe benefits
Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics
41. A productive activity resulting in something useful
Self-Concept
Work
Job
Study Skills
42. Buying a finished good or service with the intent to resell it by the unit
Apprenticeship
Vocation
ArkOscar
Retailing
43. A task one is expected to perform on the job
Vocational
Job Duty
Transportation - Distribution - and Logistics
Procrastinator
44. Work that a person does for pay
Job
Salary Range
Laws of supply and demand
Transportation - Distribution - and Logistics
45. A special skill - knowledge - or ability that enables a person to perform a particular job
Professional
Time Management
Gross pay
Qualification
46. A program of study beyond a bachelor's degree
Networking
Education/Training Requirements
Graduate school
Producer
47. A computerized career information delivery system
Tentative Decision
ArkOscar
Time Management
Values Compromise
48. The jobs that beginners start with to train them for higher-level jobs
Job
Entry-Level Jobs
Career Ladder
Hospitality and Tourism
49. Intangible work done for others as an occupation
Listening Skills
Services
Annual Leave
Skill
50. The tool that employers use to find out basic information about job applicants
Screen out
Identity
Work Environment
Application form