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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. 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
Temporary Jobs
Work
Evaluate
2. Cluster that involves protective and legal services
Law Public Safety and Security
Salary
Consumer
Business Plan
3. The personality or activity by which a person is known
Decision
Identity
Lifestyle
Vocational
4. A plan of action for education - training - and experience to reach a career goal
Salary Range
Career Ladder
Goal
On-the-job training (OJT)
5. When a person has to give up part of something they value to resolve a conflict
Screen out
Related Occupations
Loss
Values Compromise
6. A description of the goals of a business and how it will operate
Business Plan
Procedure
Post-secondary education
Volunteering
7. Clash of ideas or values
Internship
Wholesale
Government and Public Administration
Conflict
8. Possibility of loss
Discrimination
Arts Audio-Video Technology and Communications
Follow-up Letter
Risk
9. one who puts off doing things or making decisions
Interview
Procrastinator
Temporary Jobs
Ability
10. Jobs or occupations grouped together because of similar knowledge or skills
Career cluster
Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics
Check Stub
Commission
11. Natural method or way one thinks or learns
Transportation - Distribution - and Logistics
Learning Style
Goods
Aptitude
12. Cluster that involves visual and performing arts; multimedia communications; journalism
Arts Audio-Video Technology and Communications
Goal
Self-Esteem
Personality Type
13. First thing an interviewer notices: an applicant's dress - hair - and grooming
Follow-up Letter
Specializing
Appearance
Temporary Jobs
14. Cluster that involves coordinating the movement of people - goods - and services; career cluster - jobs or occupations grouped together because of similar knowledge or skills
Personality Trait
Semi-monthly Pay
Career Action Plan
Transportation - Distribution - and Logistics
15. A definition of work duties
Temporary Jobs
Job Description
Finance
Employment Agency
16. Units of measurement which schools use to determine whether or not students are progressing toward graduation
Personnel
Law Public Safety and Security
Credit
Annual Leave
17. Characteristics or make-up of a population
Demographics
Conflict
Bi-Weekly Pay
Listening
18. Treating someone unfairly because of his or her race - religion - or sex
Discrimination
Semi-monthly Pay
Sick Leave
Seasonal Work
19. Earnings above base pay
Career Goal
Occupation
Overtime
Risk
20. To employ oneself in a particular or specific field of work
Work
Specializing
Union dues
O*Net
21. A program where a person learns to do a certain job by working with a skilled worker
Base Pay
Career Action Plan
Apprenticeship
Consumer
22. Focusing or concentrating in a particular skill
Profit
Specializing
Bi-Weekly Pay
Temporary Jobs
23. Money accounted for from January 1st through the current pay period
Year-to-date earnings
Semi-monthly Pay
Job Shadowing
Wholesale
24. 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
Goods
Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics
GED certificate
Career Goal
25. A short written description of an applicant's personal data - education - and experience - related to a job
Vocational
Law of Supply
Resume
Technical
26. A person who organizes - manages - and assumes the risk of a business
Ability
Salary
Entrepreneur
Attitude
27. Someone who creates a good or service
Interest Inventory
Global Economy
Gross pay
Producer
28. An amount of money charged by others for services
Fee
Vendor
Application form
Corporation
29. The prospect for the future of a job or career
Evaluate
Employment Outlook
Check Stub
Attitude
30. An occupation one is well-suited or qualified for
Contract Labor
Help-wanted ads
Vocation
Personality
31. A task one is expected to perform on the job
Resume
Enterprise
Job Duty
Marketing Sales and Service
32. Methods of paying for education/training - such as grants - scholarships - etc.
Financial aid
Producer
Ethnic
Business Plan
33. Fixed amount of money earned - regardless of hours worked; pay that is calculated exactly the same for every check
Salary
Vocation
Evaluate
Brain Orientation
34. Business owned by many people but treated by the law as though it were one person
Partnership
Corporation
Brain Orientation
Marketing Sales and Service
35. Hearing - learning - and retaining verbal information
Producer
Check Stub
Listening Skills
Evaluate
36. Jobs requiring less than 35-40 hours a week - depending on the employer
Scholarships
Part-Time Jobs
Volunteering
Self-Concept
37. Cluster that involves developing - promoting - and providing goods to consumers; performing tasks for consumers
Manufacturing
Marketing Sales and Service
On-the-job training (OJT)
Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics
38. Tangible merchandise that you can see and touch
Apprenticeship
Long-Term Goal
Partnership
Goods
39. Business which two or more people own and operate
Evaluate
Career Goal
Bi-Weekly Pay
Partnership
40. Jobs or careers belonging to the same group on the basis of similar knowledge and skills
Related Occupations
Government and Public Administration
Vocational
Vendor
41. The tool that employers use to find out basic information about job applicants
Application form
Technical
Volunteering
Internship
42. A share of the ownership in a company
Stock
Personnel
Persistent
Assessment
43. An assessment that helps people identify their interest areas
Personality Type
Interest Inventory
Job
Education/Training Requirements
44. Instant opinion - based on certain clues - such as the way you look - act - and talk
Deduction
Consumer
First impression
Priortize
45. Cluster that involves designing - building - and repairing structures
Decision
Work Environment
Application form
Architecture and Construction
46. Earnings paid twice a month on designated dates
Year-to-date earnings
Career Goal
Payroll
Semi-monthly Pay
47. Relating to a specific field with a high degree of skill or experience
Job Outlook
Vendor
Overtime
Professional
48. Buying a finished good or service with the intent to resell it by the unit
Retailing
Annual Leave
Assessment
Appearance
49. Fees charged by an organization to unite employees
Help-wanted ads
Networking
Work
Union dues
50. Cluster that involves designing and producing materials into intermediate or final products
Architecture and Construction
Manufacturing
Producer
Scholarships