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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. The jobs that beginners start with to train them for higher-level jobs
Vocational
Retailing
Annual Leave
Entry-Level Jobs
2. Worldwide financial management system
Part-Time Jobs
Fee
Global Economy
Arts Audio-Video Technology and Communications
3. A skill that you have developed
Learning Style
Networking
Ability
Temporary Jobs
4. Cluster that involves developing - promoting - and providing goods to consumers; performing tasks for consumers
Career Goal
Plan
Marketing Sales and Service
Resume
5. Possibility of loss
Gross pay
Risk
GED certificate
Credit
6. An objective that a person wants to obtain and works to achieve
Career Goal
Specializing
Salary
Goal
7. Extras provided by employers (other than wages)
Job lead
Employment Agency
Fringe benefits
Business Plan
8. Anything a person has or uses to reach a goal
Resource
Law of Demand
OOH (Occupational Outlook Handbook)
GED certificate
9. Arrange things in order from the most important to the least important
Technology
Goods
Priortize
Interview
10. The prospect for the future of a job or career
Employment Outlook
Demographics
Related Occupations
Services
11. Cluster that involves designing - building - and repairing structures
Demographics
Wage
Education/Training Requirements
Architecture and Construction
12. Personal standards by which one lives
Lifestyle
Law Public Safety and Security
Laws of supply and demand
Values
13. Methods of paying for education/training - such as grants - scholarships - etc.
Financial aid
Contract Labor
Stockholder
Interest Inventory
14. A resource that involves communicating information with others
Self-Concept
Networking
Brain Orientation
Personnel
15. A belief - understanding - and recognition of one's own abilities
Self-Esteem
Job Duty
Job
Laws of supply and demand
16. When two or more companies rival for consumer dollars
Specializing
Competition
Contract Labor
Business Plan
17. As the prices decreases producers purchase more
Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA)
Qualification
Seasonal Work
Law of Demand
18. A program of study beyond a bachelor's degree
Entry-Level Jobs
Work Values
Graduate school
Letter of Application
19. To eliminate unwanted applicants
Temporary Jobs
Screen out
Brain Orientation
Entrepreneur
20. Being on time for work
Career
Entry-Level Jobs
Bachelor's degree
Punctuality
21. A temporary paid or unpaid position that involves direct work experience in a career field
Internship
Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics
Short-Term Goal
Vocation
22. Jobs or occupations grouped together because of similar knowledge or skills
Elective
Values
Career cluster
Vocational
23. The environment of the workplace
Working Conditions
Job Market
Wholesale
Application form
24. The thing a person enjoys doing or thinking about
Orientation
Union
Education and Training
Interest
25. A description of the goals of a business and how it will operate
Compromise
Business Plan
Law of Supply
Wholesale
26. The total amount of an employee's earnings before deductions are taken out
Competition
Law Public Safety and Security
Gross pay
Demographics
27. Salary of wages given to an employee on a regular basis
Payroll
Application form
Employment Agency
Law of Supply
28. Cluster that involves services that improve people's quality of life and promote safe - healthy communities
Human Services
Long-Term Goal
Short-Term Goal
Career cluster
29. Jobs or careers belonging to the same group on the basis of similar knowledge and skills
Related Occupations
Wholesale
Conflict
Contract Labor
30. Occupational Information Network compiled by the United States Department of Labor
O*Net
Persistent
Check Stub
Fringe benefits
31. Work that a person does for pay
Networking
Job
Interview
Employment Agency
32. Time an employee may take off work with pay
Annual Leave
Vendor
Entry-Level Jobs
Ability
33. Pay that is based upon the percentage of sales
Goal
Co-worker
Lifestyle
Commission
34. A task one is expected to perform on the job
Job Duty
Elective
Listening Skills
Time Management
35. A group of characteristics that collective form a general group of people with similiar interests - values - and behaviors
Profit
Salary Range
Personality Type
Attitude
36. The work done over a period of years in one area of interest
Career
Job Description
Temporary Jobs
Services
37. The computer network system through which information can be shared on the World Wide Web
Ability
Internet
Graduate school
Temporary Jobs
38. A formal meeting between an employer and job applicant about a job opening
Interview
Specializing
Screen out
Co-worker
39. An introductory letter written to a prospective employer
Ethnic
Letter of Application
Job Description
Annual Leave
40. A course or program that teaches job skills
Job lead
Vocational
Vocation
Net pay
41. Buying a finished good or service with the intent to resell it by the unit
Law of Supply
Retailing
Free Enterprise System
Contract Labor
42. A decision or plan that can be changed
Health Science
Plan
Credit
Tentative Decision
43. Cluster that involves providing education and training services; providing support services
Workforce diversity
Career Portfolio
Education and Training
Working Conditions
44. Careful use of resources including money and materials
Economy
Law Public Safety and Security
Career
Personality
45. 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
Government and Public Administration
Agriculture Food and Natural Resources
Career Action Plan
Part-Time Jobs
46. Cluster that involves computer and Web-based services; telecommunications services
Bachelor's degree
Information Technology
Qualification
Skill
47. Hearing - learning - and retaining verbal information
Resume
Listening Skills
Orientation
Base Pay
48. The way in which a person views their own self-worth
Scholarships
Self-Concept
Study Skills
Time Management
49. First thing an interviewer notices: an applicant's dress - hair - and grooming
Appearance
Resource
Semi-monthly Pay
Listening Skills
50. Cluster that involves acquiring - investing - and managing money
OOH (Occupational Outlook Handbook)
Finance
Salary Range
Seasonal Work