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Career Vocab
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Subject
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soft-skills
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Cluster that involves services that improve people's quality of life and promote safe - healthy communities
Time Management
Short-Term Goal
Applicant
Human Services
2. The use of goods or service to make life easier creating new jobs while eliminating others
Technology
Career Ladder
Identity
Discrimination
3. The jobs that beginners start with to train them for higher-level jobs
Entry-Level Jobs
Specializing
Goal
Resume
4. Instant opinion - based on certain clues - such as the way you look - act - and talk
Occupation
Career Action Plan
Salary Range
First impression
5. Relating to a specific field with a high degree of skill or experience
Wage
Ability
OOH (Occupational Outlook Handbook)
Professional
6. The choice between two or more possibilities
Decision
Procrastinator
Learning Style
First impression
7. Earnings below the cost of doing business
Education and Training
Interview
Outsourcing
Loss
8. A document stating that a person has passed a five-part test in the areas of writing - social studies - science - reading - and math
Information Technology
Priortize
Career Interest Area
GED certificate
9. An objective that a person wants to obtain and works to achieve
Corporation
Application form
Marketing Sales and Service
Goal
10. A share of the ownership in a company
Stock
Corporation
Fringe benefits
Work
11. Cluster that involves developing - promoting - and providing goods to consumers; performing tasks for consumers
Assessment
Year-to-date earnings
Marketing Sales and Service
Fee
12. A special skill - knowledge - or ability that enables a person to perform a particular job
Job lead
Resume
Qualification
Stockholder
13. Average expected earnings from beginning to experienced pay
Hospitality and Tourism
Learning Style
Salary Range
Screen out
14. Worldwide financial management system
Discrimination
Work Values
Global Economy
Annual Leave
15. A task one is expected to perform on the job
Gross pay
Volunteering
Hospitality and Tourism
Job Duty
16. Cumulative time given to employees for personal or family illness with pay
Discrimination
Decision
Decision-Making Process
Sick Leave
17. Someone who creates a good or service
Learning Style
Producer
Overtime
Fringe benefits
18. Business owned by one person
Evaluate
Punctuality
Agriculture Food and Natural Resources
Sole Proprietorship
19. Anything a person has or uses to reach a goal
Resource
Producer
Specializing
Temporary Jobs
20. A plan of action for education - training - and experience to reach a career goal
Fringe benefits
Free Enterprise System
Career Ladder
Tuition
21. To give up something to resolve a conflict
Resume
Compromise
Employment Agency
Law of Demand
22. Relating to races or groups of people with common customs
Study Skills
Research
Ethnic
Business Plan
23. A person who works with you
Annual Leave
Classifieds
Co-worker
Temporary Jobs
24. 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
Job Outlook
Overtime
Loss
25. A decision or plan that can be changed
Wage
Follow-up Letter
Job Shadowing
Tentative Decision
26. A computerized career information delivery system
Stock
ArkOscar
Contract Labor
Ethnic
27. To employ oneself in a particular or specific field of work
Personality Type
Business Management and Administration
Aptitude
Specializing
28. Commoney known as Social Security
Education and Training
Professional
Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA)
Personnel
29. A definition of work duties
Job Market
Job Description
Skill
Volunteering
30. The instructional background and skills needed to qualify for employment
Education/Training Requirements
Marketing Sales and Service
Entry-Level Jobs
Decision-Making Process
31. An individual characterstic that helps one determine their personality
Full-Time Job
Economy
Entrepreneur
Personality Trait
32. A group of characteristics that collective form a general group of people with similiar interests - values - and behaviors
Employment Outlook
Personality Type
Tuition
Scholarships
33. Cluster that involves acquiring - investing - and managing money
Finance
Follow-up Letter
Goal
Risk
34. Buying a finished good or service with the intent to resell it by the unit
Help-wanted ads
Retailing
Competition
Finance
35. As the prices decreases producers purchase more
Law of Demand
Working Conditions
Ethnic
On-the-job training (OJT)
36. Methods of paying for education/training - such as grants - scholarships - etc.
Seasonal Work
Career Ladder
Financial aid
Networking
37. Rules of behavior in the workplace
Year-to-date earnings
Self-Esteem
Work ethic
Education/Training Requirements
38. Any information about possible job openings
Financial aid
Self-Esteem
Job lead
Professional
39. Fixed amount of money earned - regardless of hours worked; pay that is calculated exactly the same for every check
Contract Labor
Salary
Sick Leave
Interest Inventory
40. The computer network system through which information can be shared on the World Wide Web
Temporary Jobs
Base Pay
Education/Training Requirements
Internet
41. Money received for education that does not have to be repaid
Scholarships
Self-Esteem
Volunteering
Tuition
42. The fee that colleges charge to take their classes
Schedule
Tuition
Interview
Networking
43. A group of employees
Overtime
Personnel
Time Management
Salary
44. A course that is not required but can be chosen by a student according to their interests
Business Plan
Government and Public Administration
Enterprise
Elective
45. Business owned by many people but treated by the law as though it were one person
Related Occupations
Reference
Corporation
Specializing
46. Generally 40 Hour work week or more
Listening
Full-Time Job
Partnership
Gross pay
47. When a person has to give up part of something they value to resolve a conflict
Base Pay
Health Science
Values Compromise
Commission
48. Money earned above the cost of doing business
Information Technology
Profit
Follow-up Letter
Agriculture Food and Natural Resources
49. Earnings above base pay
Net pay
Contract Labor
Attitude
Overtime
50. Learning on the job
Appearance
Ability
On-the-job training (OJT)
Seasonal Work