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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 instructional background and skills needed to qualify for employment
Architecture and Construction
Education/Training Requirements
Attitude
Deduction
2. The combination of attitude - values - interests - and behaviors that identify a person
Punctuality
Personality
Marketing Sales and Service
Temporary Jobs
3. The future prospects for employment in a particular job or field
Job Outlook
Year-to-date earnings
Letter of Application
Specializing
4. The amount of a paycheck after the deductions are taken out
Net pay
Loss
Related Occupations
Temporary Jobs
5. A group of workers who collectively bargin for higher wages - improved benefits - and better working conditions
Aptitude
Union
Business Management and Administration
Work Environment
6. A person who organizes - manages - and assumes the risk of a business
Year-to-date earnings
Co-worker
Entrepreneur
Lifestyle
7. A group of characteristics that collective form a general group of people with similiar interests - values - and behaviors
Personality Type
Career Goal
Application form
Ability
8. Cluster that involves designing and producing materials into intermediate or final products
Manufacturing
Salary
Partnership
Internet
9. Cluster that involves planning - organizing - and directing business operations
Time Management
Listening
Business Management and Administration
Annual Leave
10. Fees charged by an organization to unite employees
Union dues
Specializing
Letter of Application
Employment Agency
11. A person's outlook on life - usually positive or negative
Self-Concept
Attitude
Compromise
Procrastinator
12. A course that is required before another course can be taken
Business Plan
Tentative Decision
Prerequisite
Identity
13. The prospect for the future of a job or career
Employment Outlook
Full-Time Job
Professional
Loss
14. A decision or plan that can be changed
Hospitality and Tourism
Tentative Decision
Overtime
Vocational
15. A wide variety of workers with different backgrounds - experiences - ideas - and skills in the workplace
Workforce diversity
Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics
Work ethic
Follow-up Letter
16. A program where a person learns to do a certain job by working with a skilled worker
Technology
Apprenticeship
Temporary Jobs
Commission
17. Possibility of loss
Risk
Vendor
Sole Proprietorship
Deduction
18. Agreement to complete a job for an amount of money
Self-Esteem
Long-Term Goal
Personnel
Contract Labor
19. To make a plan or arrange things that must be done
Schedule
Orientation
Skill
Qualification
20. Buying a finished good or service with the intent to resell it by the unit
Scholarships
Retailing
Screen out
Global Economy
21. Jobs with similiar work actvities
Personality Type
Aptitude
Co-worker
Career Interest Area
22. Amount of money taken from an employee's gross pay for taxes - insurance - social security - and other benefits
Year-to-date earnings
Sick Leave
Career Interest Area
Deduction
23. A task one is expected to perform on the job
Job Duty
Follow-up Letter
Skill
Professional
24. A person who works with you
Listening
Co-worker
Wage
Personality Trait
25. Cluster that involves the science of maintaining and improving people's physical and mental well-being
Goal
Vocation
Health Science
Credit
26. An action or series of actions determined by an employer for a specific process
Self-Esteem
Procedure
Self-Concept
Vocation
27. Anything a person has or uses to reach a goal
Marketing Sales and Service
Specializing
Enterprise
Resource
28. A person applying for a job
Decision-Making Process
Salary Range
Applicant
Entry-Level Jobs
29. Temporary work during the summer
Partnership
Seasonal Work
Applicant
Sole Proprietorship
30. Jobs requiring less than 35-40 hours a week - depending on the employer
Sick Leave
Vocation
Part-Time Jobs
Goal
31. A thank you letter written following an interview
Fringe benefits
Follow-up Letter
Laws of supply and demand
Procrastinator
32. A book used for researching the most common careers in the United States
Career Goal
Contract Labor
OOH (Occupational Outlook Handbook)
Apprenticeship
33. To eliminate unwanted applicants
Work ethic
Screen out
Contract Labor
Union
34. Methods of paying for education/training - such as grants - scholarships - etc.
Architecture and Construction
Financial aid
OOH (Occupational Outlook Handbook)
Competition
35. The choice between two or more possibilities
Decision
Free Enterprise System
Listening
Persistent
36. To employ oneself in a particular or specific field of work
Fringe benefits
Specializing
Self-Esteem
Year-to-date earnings
37. Relating to a specific field with a high degree of skill or experience
Technical
Professional
Services
Stockholder
38. Collection of information about oneself
Career cluster
Career Portfolio
Elective
Ability
39. The steps one takes to make the best decision
Application form
ArkOscar
Global Economy
Decision-Making Process
40. notices that employers put in the classified section of the paper describing their job openings
Help-wanted ads
Finance
Risk
Self-Concept
41. Time an employee may take off work with pay
Associate degree
Orientation
Financial aid
Annual Leave
42. Treating someone unfairly because of his or her race - religion - or sex
Consumer
GED certificate
Free Enterprise System
Discrimination
43. A plan of action for education - training - and experience to reach a career goal
Career Ladder
Occupation
Wholesale
Work Environment
44. Determining the best way for an individual to study - remember - or learn
Finance
Study Skills
Agriculture Food and Natural Resources
Human Services
45. A course that is not required but can be chosen by a student according to their interests
Personnel
Compromise
Elective
Post-secondary education
46. Cluster that involves visual and performing arts; multimedia communications; journalism
Arts Audio-Video Technology and Communications
Government and Public Administration
Decision-Making Process
Semi-monthly Pay
47. An introductory letter written to a prospective employer
Punctuality
Stock
Letter of Application
Personality
48. Way in which one uses or utilitizes the brain best
Career
Brain Orientation
Bachelor's degree
Work ethic
49. A person who owns stock in a company
Entry-Level Jobs
ArkOscar
Career Action Plan
Stockholder
50. To find out more by reading and talking to people
Research
Job Outlook
Decision-Making Process
First impression