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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. Time an employee may take off work with pay
Check Stub
Attitude
Annual Leave
Time Management
2. The prospect for the future of a job or career
Orientation
Employment Outlook
Entry-Level Jobs
Profit
3. A person who will give a favorable report of a job applicant to the employer
Personality Type
Part-Time Jobs
Specializing
Reference
4. A book used for researching the most common careers in the United States
Apprenticeship
Interview
OOH (Occupational Outlook Handbook)
Procrastinator
5. Using People in foreign countries to assemble parts; utilizing external resources - and saving labor costs
Outsourcing
Appearance
Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics
Long-Term Goal
6. Cluster that involves planning - organizing - and directing business operations
Retailing
Information Technology
Personality
Business Management and Administration
7. The work done over a period of years in one area of interest
Business Plan
Annual Leave
Law Public Safety and Security
Career
8. Cluster that involves developing - promoting - and providing goods to consumers; performing tasks for consumers
Marketing Sales and Service
Government and Public Administration
Profit
Vocational
9. An objective that a person wants to obtain and works to achieve
Goal
Law Public Safety and Security
Employment Agency
Union
10. Earnings below the cost of doing business
Loss
Business Management and Administration
Schedule
On-the-job training (OJT)
11. An assessment that helps people identify their interest areas
Interest Inventory
Listening Skills
Laws of supply and demand
Networking
12. Jobs requiring less than 35-40 hours a week - depending on the employer
Health Science
Transportation - Distribution - and Logistics
Part-Time Jobs
Study Skills
13. Part of the paycheck that shows earnings and deductions
Producer
Career Action Plan
Letter of Application
Check Stub
14. Agreement to complete a job for an amount of money
Elective
Interest
Contract Labor
Employer
15. A long term work plan including education - training - and experience
Corporation
Career Goal
Fee
Job
16. Personal standards by which one lives
Tuition
Technology
Resource
Values
17. Cluster that involves services that improve people's quality of life and promote safe - healthy communities
Apprenticeship
Human Services
Job Market
Financial aid
18. To eliminate unwanted applicants
Consumer
Persistent
Screen out
Temporary Jobs
19. A thank you letter written following an interview
Schedule
Check Stub
Co-worker
Follow-up Letter
20. Cumulative time given to employees for personal or family illness with pay
Job Duty
Sick Leave
Reference
Education/Training Requirements
21. The computer network system through which information can be shared on the World Wide Web
Job Market
Internet
Volunteering
Aptitude
22. Cluster that involves the science of maintaining and improving people's physical and mental well-being
Job Market
Health Science
Transportation - Distribution - and Logistics
Self-Esteem
23. To give up something to resolve a conflict
Internship
Education and Training
Compromise
Annual Leave
24. Determining the best way for an individual to study - remember - or learn
Orientation
Education/Training Requirements
Career Interest Area
Study Skills
25. Undertaking or venture to make more with risk
Enterprise
Salary
Annual Leave
Career Portfolio
26. Fees charged by an organization to unite employees
Union dues
Base Pay
Follow-up Letter
Networking
27. A productive activity resulting in something useful
Work
Goods
Assessment
Specializing
28. A plan which includes the education and training requirements to reach a career goal
Job Shadowing
Salary Range
Career Action Plan
Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA)
29. Worldwide financial management system
Schedule
Long-Term Goal
Human Services
Global Economy
30. Cluster that involves coordinating the movement of people - goods - and services; career cluster - jobs or occupations grouped together because of similar knowledge or skills
Associate degree
Financial aid
Outsourcing
Transportation - Distribution - and Logistics
31. The jobs that beginners start with to train them for higher-level jobs
Hospitality and Tourism
Job Outlook
Entry-Level Jobs
Screen out
32. Careful use of resources including money and materials
Career Interest Area
Job Market
Job Shadowing
Economy
33. Jobs or careers belonging to the same group on the basis of similar knowledge and skills
First impression
Tuition
Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA)
Related Occupations
34. First thing an interviewer notices: an applicant's dress - hair - and grooming
Financial aid
Business Management and Administration
Risk
Appearance
35. Money accounted for from January 1st through the current pay period
Employment Outlook
Year-to-date earnings
Personality
Base Pay
36. Standards one believes is important about their work
Graduate school
Career Goal
Vocational
Work Values
37. A description of the goals of a business and how it will operate
Temporary Jobs
Business Plan
Listening Skills
On-the-job training (OJT)
38. A group of employees
Workforce diversity
Manufacturing
Personnel
Time Management
39. 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
Tentative Decision
Interest
Wage
Free Enterprise System
40. The ability to perform a certain activity well
Short-Term Goal
Qualification
Skill
Career Ladder
41. notices that employers put in the classified section of the paper describing their job openings
Vocation
Post-secondary education
Wage
Help-wanted ads
42. Business owned by one person
Financial aid
Professional
Sole Proprietorship
Employer
43. The total amount of an employee's earnings before deductions are taken out
Vocational
Partnership
Gross pay
Stockholder
44. Money received for education that does not have to be repaid
Wholesale
Job Market
Career Portfolio
Scholarships
45. Anything a person has or uses to reach a goal
Job Outlook
Vendor
Classifieds
Resource
46. A short written description of an applicant's personal data - education - and experience - related to a job
Interest
Lifestyle
Sole Proprietorship
Resume
47. As the prices decreases producers purchase more
Demographics
Law of Demand
Compromise
Temporary Jobs
48. Treating someone unfairly because of his or her race - religion - or sex
Law of Demand
Discrimination
Competition
Wage
49. A course that is not required but can be chosen by a student according to their interests
Ability
Elective
Enterprise
Co-worker
50. Rules of behavior in the workplace
Attitude
Education and Training
Vocational
Work ethic