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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. Personal standards by which one lives
Values
Economy
Wage
Employment Agency
2. An individual characterstic that helps one determine their personality
Temporary Jobs
Work
Job Description
Personality Trait
3. Arrange things in order from the most important to the least important
Internship
Producer
Career Goal
Priortize
4. The use of goods or service to make life easier creating new jobs while eliminating others
Human Services
Technology
Economy
Decision
5. Agreement to complete a job for an amount of money
Applicant
Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics
Services
Contract Labor
6. Cluster that involves developing - promoting - and providing goods to consumers; performing tasks for consumers
Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA)
Stockholder
Marketing Sales and Service
Producer
7. Cumulative time given to employees for personal or family illness with pay
Sick Leave
Punctuality
Annual Leave
Health Science
8. Salary of wages given to an employee on a regular basis
Specializing
Vocational
Payroll
Ability
9. A person applying for a job
Networking
Procedure
Applicant
Help-wanted ads
10. Pay that is based upon the percentage of sales
Priortize
Brain Orientation
Specializing
Commission
11. Cluster that involves designing - building - and repairing structures
GED certificate
Prerequisite
Architecture and Construction
Business Management and Administration
12. A group of characteristics that collective form a general group of people with similiar interests - values - and behaviors
Interest Inventory
Job Shadowing
Post-secondary education
Personality Type
13. Something a person wants to acheive later in life requiring much planning
Check Stub
Health Science
Long-Term Goal
Payroll
14. When a person has to give up part of something they value to resolve a conflict
Outsourcing
Union
Producer
Values Compromise
15. Help-wanted section of the newspaper that lists job openings
Education/Training Requirements
Work
Classifieds
Agriculture Food and Natural Resources
16. A description of the goals of a business and how it will operate
Ethnic
Classifieds
Application form
Business Plan
17. Extras provided by employers (other than wages)
Fringe benefits
Union dues
Classifieds
Work Values
18. A computerized career information delivery system
Arts Audio-Video Technology and Communications
Government and Public Administration
ArkOscar
Loss
19. A wide variety of workers with different backgrounds - experiences - ideas - and skills in the workplace
Workforce diversity
Semi-monthly Pay
Screen out
Working Conditions
20. one who puts off doing things or making decisions
Goods
Resource
Procrastinator
Competition
21. The instructional background and skills needed to qualify for employment
Internet
Volunteering
Education/Training Requirements
Interview
22. The choice between two or more possibilities
Job Duty
Self-Concept
Services
Decision
23. An action or series of actions determined by an employer for a specific process
Compromise
Human Services
Self-Esteem
Procedure
24. A document stating that a person has passed a five-part test in the areas of writing - social studies - science - reading - and math
Goal
Manufacturing
Partnership
GED certificate
25. Commoney known as Social Security
Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA)
Human Services
Job Duty
Internship
26. A certificate of completion awarded to a person after completing a program of study in a particular area - usually lasting 2 years
Associate degree
Orientation
Base Pay
Procedure
27. Rules of behavior in the workplace
Qualification
Retailing
On-the-job training (OJT)
Work ethic
28. Occupational Information Network compiled by the United States Department of Labor
Retailing
Related Occupations
O*Net
Plan
29. Intangible work done for others as an occupation
Goal
Services
Annual Leave
Demographics
30. Cluster that involves acquiring - investing - and managing money
Values
Resume
Overtime
Finance
31. The thing a person enjoys doing or thinking about
Application form
Interest
Internship
Job lead
32. A person who will give a favorable report of a job applicant to the employer
Specializing
Reference
Seasonal Work
Stock
33. This involves hearing - thinking about and responding to what the speaker is saying
Post-secondary education
Listening
Education and Training
Screen out
34. A service business designed to help put employees and employers together
Employment Agency
Post-secondary education
Employer
Career Portfolio
35. Collection of information about oneself
Sick Leave
Career Portfolio
Work Values
Year-to-date earnings
36. Jobs or careers belonging to the same group on the basis of similar knowledge and skills
Related Occupations
Profit
Decision-Making Process
Reference
37. Focusing or concentrating in a particular skill
Specializing
Reference
Semi-monthly Pay
Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics
38. The prospect for the future of a job or career
Employment Outlook
Scholarships
Year-to-date earnings
Deduction
39. A special skill - knowledge - or ability that enables a person to perform a particular job
Career
Personality Type
Qualification
Personality Trait
40. Any education or training following high school
Post-secondary education
Partnership
Tuition
Evaluate
41. A course or program that teaches job skills
Transportation - Distribution - and Logistics
Work Values
Vocational
Sick Leave
42. The planning and using of time
Time Management
Plan
Sick Leave
Professional
43. The amount of a paycheck after the deductions are taken out
Net pay
Occupation
Manufacturing
Schedule
44. Doing a job without pay to gain experience
Volunteering
Education/Training Requirements
Risk
Consumer
45. An introductory letter written to a prospective employer
Volunteering
Consumer
Work Values
Letter of Application
46. A program where a person learns to do a certain job by working with a skilled worker
Apprenticeship
Evaluate
Discrimination
Producer
47. A long term work plan including education - training - and experience
Career Goal
Laws of supply and demand
Work
Marketing Sales and Service
48. Time an employee may take off work with pay
Information Technology
Evaluate
Annual Leave
Personnel
49. Someone who sells goods or services
Employer
Hospitality and Tourism
Wage
Vendor
50. Earnings paid twice a month on designated dates
Ethnic
Specializing
Semi-monthly Pay
Networking