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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 personal evaluation to help you make decisions
Law Public Safety and Security
Fee
Appearance
Assessment
2. Treating someone unfairly because of his or her race - religion - or sex
Contract Labor
Discrimination
Entrepreneur
Union
3. To eliminate unwanted applicants
Screen out
Information Technology
Career
Entrepreneur
4. A person who organizes - manages - and assumes the risk of a business
Time Management
Commission
Entrepreneur
Economy
5. Units of measurement which schools use to determine whether or not students are progressing toward graduation
Job Shadowing
Credit
Vocational
Hospitality and Tourism
6. Any information about possible job openings
Annual Leave
Applicant
First impression
Job lead
7. An assessment that helps people identify their interest areas
Law of Demand
Interest Inventory
Career
OOH (Occupational Outlook Handbook)
8. Relating to a specific field with a high degree of skill or experience
Professional
Application form
Career Interest Area
Consumer
9. Cluster that involves acquiring - investing - and managing money
Profit
Aptitude
Finance
Decision-Making Process
10. A program of study beyond a bachelor's degree
Graduate school
Personality Type
Orientation
Aptitude
11. To look at closely and judge
Research
Job Outlook
Evaluate
Career Ladder
12. The ability to perform a certain activity well
Net pay
Skill
Partnership
Wage
13. An introductory letter written to a prospective employer
Letter of Application
Annual Leave
Salary
Commission
14. Average expected earnings from beginning to experienced pay
Personality Type
Education and Training
Economy
Salary Range
15. The steps one takes to make the best decision
Elective
Temporary Jobs
Education and Training
Decision-Making Process
16. The surrounding physical conditions of a workplace
Qualification
Work Environment
Tuition
Salary
17. Generally 40 Hour work week or more
Professional
Free Enterprise System
Vocation
Full-Time Job
18. A person who will give a favorable report of a job applicant to the employer
Transportation - Distribution - and Logistics
Vendor
Priortize
Reference
19. Money earned above the cost of doing business
Conflict
Consumer
Profit
Career cluster
20. The prospect for the future of a job or career
Employment Outlook
Help-wanted ads
Commission
Job lead
21. Extras provided by employers (other than wages)
Related Occupations
Services
Fringe benefits
Applicant
22. The need for workers in a particular occupation or field
Gross pay
Ability
Career Action Plan
Job Market
23. This involves hearing - thinking about and responding to what the speaker is saying
Listening
Credit
Specializing
Job Market
24. The course of action one decides to take at the end of the decision-making process
Plan
Procrastinator
Union
Net pay
25. An individual characterstic that helps one determine their personality
Qualification
Listening Skills
Personality Trait
Economy
26. Characteristics or make-up of a population
Demographics
Personnel
Information Technology
Law of Demand
27. The use of goods or service to make life easier creating new jobs while eliminating others
Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics
Compromise
Technology
Ethnic
28. 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
Reference
Stockholder
Bi-Weekly Pay
29. one who puts off doing things or making decisions
Evaluate
Orientation
Procrastinator
Producer
30. Determining the best way for an individual to study - remember - or learn
Job
Orientation
Study Skills
Research
31. Money accounted for from January 1st through the current pay period
Finance
Research
Year-to-date earnings
Business Management and Administration
32. Jobs or occupations grouped together because of similar knowledge or skills
Career cluster
Internship
Free Enterprise System
Laws of supply and demand
33. Hearing - learning - and retaining verbal information
Annual Leave
Transportation - Distribution - and Logistics
Listening Skills
Consumer
34. Something one wants to obtain in the near future generally less than 5 years
Short-Term Goal
Graduate school
Human Services
Consumer
35. 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
O*Net
Conflict
Agriculture Food and Natural Resources
Health Science
36. Someone who sells goods or services
Vendor
Wholesale
Work
Overtime
37. As the prices decreases producers purchase more
Plan
Employment Agency
Information Technology
Law of Demand
38. Cumulative time given to employees for personal or family illness with pay
Research
Sick Leave
Job Shadowing
Scholarships
39. Possibility of loss
Persistent
Related Occupations
Employer
Risk
40. Help-wanted section of the newspaper that lists job openings
Profit
Classifieds
Values
Demographics
41. First thing an interviewer notices: an applicant's dress - hair - and grooming
Wage
Technical
Time Management
Appearance
42. Cluster that involves coordinating the movement of people - goods - and services; career cluster - jobs or occupations grouped together because of similar knowledge or skills
Workforce diversity
Free Enterprise System
Transportation - Distribution - and Logistics
Employer
43. A plan of action for education - training - and experience to reach a career goal
Vendor
Career Ladder
Goal
Job lead
44. The person who has hires someone to do a job
Employer
Internet
Decision
Values
45. Continuing for a long period of time to accomplish a task
Goods
Persistent
Net pay
Law Public Safety and Security
46. A certificate of completion awarded to a person after completing a program of study in a particular area - usually lasting 2 years
Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics
Credit
Associate degree
Union
47. A description of the goals of a business and how it will operate
Self-Esteem
Commission
Business Plan
Loss
48. The tool that employers use to find out basic information about job applicants
Help-wanted ads
Goods
Employment Agency
Application form
49. The environment of the workplace
Schedule
Working Conditions
Part-Time Jobs
Job
50. Business which two or more people own and operate
Interest Inventory
Partnership
Finance
Career cluster