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Career Vocab
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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. Instant opinion - based on certain clues - such as the way you look - act - and talk
First impression
Goal
Procedure
Full-Time Job
2. Learning on the job
Loss
Tuition
On-the-job training (OJT)
Qualification
3. one who puts off doing things or making decisions
Procrastinator
Union
Health Science
Law Public Safety and Security
4. 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
Agriculture Food and Natural Resources
Interest
Listening Skills
Year-to-date earnings
5. Temporary work during the summer
Demographics
Learning Style
Employment Outlook
Seasonal Work
6. The need for workers in a particular occupation or field
Elective
Application form
Producer
Job Market
7. Undertaking or venture to make more with risk
Employment Agency
Enterprise
Reference
Resource
8. A computerized career information delivery system
Follow-up Letter
ArkOscar
Law of Demand
Corporation
9. Earnings paid twice a month on designated dates
Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics
Job Market
Semi-monthly Pay
Goods
10. Tangible merchandise that you can see and touch
Hospitality and Tourism
Interest
Goods
Personality Type
11. Cumulative time given to employees for personal or family illness with pay
Check Stub
Applicant
Sick Leave
Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics
12. Help-wanted section of the newspaper that lists job openings
Vocation
Schedule
Classifieds
Government and Public Administration
13. Rules of behavior in the workplace
Job Market
Vendor
Work ethic
Enterprise
14. Intangible work done for others as an occupation
Assessment
Personality Type
Services
Specializing
15. Salary of wages given to an employee on a regular basis
Career cluster
Part-Time Jobs
Free Enterprise System
Payroll
16. A specialized scientific work in manufacturing and industry
Orientation
Union
Technical
Career Action Plan
17. Continuing for a long period of time to accomplish a task
Outsourcing
Partnership
Help-wanted ads
Persistent
18. Time an employee may take off work with pay
Lifestyle
Brain Orientation
Career Ladder
Annual Leave
19. Standards one believes is important about their work
Work Values
Personality Type
Career
Fringe benefits
20. Acquaint or become familiar with a new situation
Interview
Base Pay
Orientation
Scholarships
21. Someone who purchases a good or service with the intent to use it
Consumer
Values
Attitude
Schedule
22. The thing a person enjoys doing or thinking about
Gross pay
Enterprise
Career Portfolio
Interest
23. A group of employees
Decision-Making Process
Personnel
Employment Outlook
Learning Style
24. A plan which includes the education and training requirements to reach a career goal
Business Plan
Goods
Aptitude
Career Action Plan
25. A plan of action for education - training - and experience to reach a career goal
Discrimination
Application form
Applicant
Career Ladder
26. A decision or plan that can be changed
Work
Workforce diversity
Tentative Decision
Interest
27. A service business designed to help put employees and employers together
Prerequisite
Net pay
Employment Agency
Work ethic
28. A certificate of completion awarded to a person after completing a program of study in a particular area - usually lasting 2 years
Corporation
Job lead
Associate degree
Co-worker
29. A person who organizes - manages - and assumes the risk of a business
Volunteering
Application form
Brain Orientation
Entrepreneur
30. Something one wants to obtain in the near future generally less than 5 years
Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics
Short-Term Goal
Bi-Weekly Pay
Personality Trait
31. A task one is expected to perform on the job
Professional
Career cluster
Job Duty
Applicant
32. Any education or training following high school
Specializing
Screen out
Sick Leave
Post-secondary education
33. The amount of a paycheck after the deductions are taken out
Co-worker
Net pay
Enterprise
Discrimination
34. Hearing - learning - and retaining verbal information
Services
Business Management and Administration
Job
Listening Skills
35. First thing an interviewer notices: an applicant's dress - hair - and grooming
Evaluate
Profit
Procedure
Appearance
36. The total amount of an employee's earnings before deductions are taken out
Profit
Services
Brain Orientation
Gross pay
37. A person who works with you
Co-worker
Career Interest Area
Lifestyle
Producer
38. Characteristics or make-up of a population
Demographics
Related Occupations
Goods
Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA)
39. Typical way of life
Skill
Law of Demand
Lifestyle
Qualification
40. Methods of paying for education/training - such as grants - scholarships - etc.
Financial aid
Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics
Resume
Marketing Sales and Service
41. Natural method or way one thinks or learns
Application form
Learning Style
Work Values
Long-Term Goal
42. The work done over a period of years in one area of interest
Interest Inventory
Health Science
Identity
Career
43. A long term work plan including education - training - and experience
Producer
Technology
Skill
Career Goal
44. Jobs or careers belonging to the same group on the basis of similar knowledge and skills
Payroll
Architecture and Construction
Work ethic
Related Occupations
45. The way in which a person views their own self-worth
Self-Concept
Bachelor's degree
Listening Skills
On-the-job training (OJT)
46. Cluster that involves services that improve people's quality of life and promote safe - healthy communities
Internet
Classifieds
Human Services
Decision
47. An occupation one is well-suited or qualified for
Vocation
Law Public Safety and Security
Professional
Global Economy
48. Clash of ideas or values
Arts Audio-Video Technology and Communications
Full-Time Job
Brain Orientation
Conflict
49. Arrange things in order from the most important to the least important
Demographics
Priortize
Deduction
Law Public Safety and Security
50. Part of the paycheck that shows earnings and deductions
Check Stub
Union dues
Workforce diversity
GED certificate