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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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1. Focusing or concentrating in a particular skill
Business Management and Administration
Specializing
Outsourcing
Interest
2. First thing an interviewer notices: an applicant's dress - hair - and grooming
Union
Short-Term Goal
Appearance
Base Pay
3. Money received for education that does not have to be repaid
Specializing
Services
Self-Concept
Scholarships
4. The type of job in which a person is employed
Education and Training
Health Science
Free Enterprise System
Occupation
5. The thing a person enjoys doing or thinking about
Interest
Fringe benefits
Services
O*Net
6. This involves hearing - thinking about and responding to what the speaker is saying
Listening
Manufacturing
Entrepreneur
Human Services
7. The choice between two or more possibilities
Education and Training
Short-Term Goal
Decision
Contract Labor
8. The planning and using of time
Time Management
OOH (Occupational Outlook Handbook)
Financial aid
Employment Outlook
9. Employment during special seasons
Co-worker
Temporary Jobs
Manufacturing
Networking
10. Jobs or occupations grouped together because of similar knowledge or skills
Orientation
Sole Proprietorship
Listening
Career cluster
11. Cluster that involves services involving lodging - entertainment - recreation - and travel; food and beverage management
Personality Type
Technology
Hospitality and Tourism
Research
12. The jobs that beginners start with to train them for higher-level jobs
Entry-Level Jobs
Agriculture Food and Natural Resources
Professional
Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA)
13. To make a plan or arrange things that must be done
Full-Time Job
ArkOscar
Networking
Schedule
14. Cluster that involves designing and producing materials into intermediate or final products
Elective
Manufacturing
Job Outlook
Workforce diversity
15. The use of goods or service to make life easier creating new jobs while eliminating others
Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA)
Technology
Conflict
Brain Orientation
16. The need for workers in a particular occupation or field
Tuition
Job Market
Career Ladder
Fringe benefits
17. Cluster that involves visual and performing arts; multimedia communications; journalism
Career cluster
Arts Audio-Video Technology and Communications
Net pay
Salary Range
18. Money accounted for from January 1st through the current pay period
Career cluster
Year-to-date earnings
Qualification
Health Science
19. Help-wanted section of the newspaper that lists job openings
Classifieds
Apprenticeship
Net pay
Corporation
20. When two or more companies rival for consumer dollars
Competition
Check Stub
Personality
Internship
21. Any information about possible job openings
Personality Type
Sick Leave
Annual Leave
Job lead
22. A certificate of completion awarded to a person after they successfully complete a required set of college courses in both general and specific areas - usually lasting 4 years
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23. Doing a job without pay to gain experience
Volunteering
Net pay
Workforce diversity
Year-to-date earnings
24. Acquaint or become familiar with a new situation
Work
Entrepreneur
Union dues
Orientation
25. Relating to races or groups of people with common customs
Learning Style
Ethnic
Wage
Sole Proprietorship
26. Cluster that involves coordinating the movement of people - goods - and services; career cluster - jobs or occupations grouped together because of similar knowledge or skills
Fringe benefits
Health Science
Apprenticeship
Transportation - Distribution - and Logistics
27. A belief - understanding - and recognition of one's own abilities
Base Pay
Aptitude
Work
Self-Esteem
28. A course or program that teaches job skills
Vocational
Free Enterprise System
Job
Assessment
29. Hearing - learning - and retaining verbal information
Sick Leave
Listening Skills
Global Economy
Work ethic
30. Someone who creates a good or service
Salary Range
Plan
Producer
Outsourcing
31. Cluster that involves providing education and training services; providing support services
Education and Training
Resume
Vendor
Listening
32. A long term work plan including education - training - and experience
Gross pay
Arts Audio-Video Technology and Communications
Career Goal
Bi-Weekly Pay
33. The surrounding physical conditions of a workplace
Personality Trait
Career
Vendor
Work Environment
34. A temporary paid or unpaid position that involves direct work experience in a career field
Demographics
Wholesale
Internship
Laws of supply and demand
35. Someone who sells goods or services
Sick Leave
Resource
Vendor
Economy
36. Cluster that involves developing - promoting - and providing goods to consumers; performing tasks for consumers
Education and Training
Marketing Sales and Service
Interview
Professional
37. To buy in bulk form wi the intent to resell by the case
Specializing
Wholesale
Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics
Full-Time Job
38. A person's outlook on life - usually positive or negative
GED certificate
Vendor
Attitude
Commission
39. Buying a finished good or service with the intent to resell it by the unit
Graduate school
Work
Retailing
Human Services
40. The steps one takes to make the best decision
Working Conditions
Decision-Making Process
Union dues
Employment Outlook
41. A person who owns stock in a company
Services
Elective
Full-Time Job
Stockholder
42. Jobs that last for a limited period of time
Internet
Producer
Temporary Jobs
Ethnic
43. Business owned by many people but treated by the law as though it were one person
Year-to-date earnings
Partnership
Corporation
Career cluster
44. Cluster that involves acquiring - investing - and managing money
Career Portfolio
Finance
Brain Orientation
Risk
45. Salary of wages given to an employee on a regular basis
Payroll
Screen out
Career Interest Area
Job Outlook
46. A book used for researching the most common careers in the United States
Arts Audio-Video Technology and Communications
OOH (Occupational Outlook Handbook)
Ability
Information Technology
47. A person who works with you
Co-worker
On-the-job training (OJT)
Work ethic
Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA)
48. Units of measurement which schools use to determine whether or not students are progressing toward graduation
Procrastinator
Screen out
Health Science
Credit
49. Cluster that involves computer and Web-based services; telecommunications services
Information Technology
Competition
Work
Temporary Jobs
50. A wide variety of workers with different backgrounds - experiences - ideas - and skills in the workplace
Risk
Apprenticeship
Workforce diversity
Decision-Making Process