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Career Vocab
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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. Cluster that involves services that improve people's quality of life and promote safe - healthy communities
Persistent
Outsourcing
Human Services
Volunteering
2. Cluster that involves developing - promoting - and providing goods to consumers; performing tasks for consumers
Corporation
Marketing Sales and Service
Laws of supply and demand
Time Management
3. A program where a person learns to do a certain job by working with a skilled worker
Brain Orientation
Apprenticeship
Ability
Listening
4. To find out more by reading and talking to people
Employment Agency
Networking
Work Values
Research
5. A temporary paid or unpaid position that involves direct work experience in a career field
Internship
On-the-job training (OJT)
Arts Audio-Video Technology and Communications
Values
6. Buying a finished good or service with the intent to resell it by the unit
Lifestyle
Priortize
Retailing
First impression
7. The need for workers in a particular occupation or field
Co-worker
Screen out
Job Market
Prerequisite
8. Cluster that involves providing education and training services; providing support services
Apprenticeship
Information Technology
Education and Training
Career cluster
9. A document stating that a person has passed a five-part test in the areas of writing - social studies - science - reading - and math
Co-worker
Values
Consumer
GED certificate
10. This involves hearing - thinking about and responding to what the speaker is saying
Related Occupations
Law of Supply
Listening
Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA)
11. The ability or potential for learning new skills
Vendor
Self-Concept
Aptitude
Human Services
12. Earnings below the cost of doing business
GED certificate
Contract Labor
Loss
Base Pay
13. Personal standards by which one lives
Law of Demand
Related Occupations
Career Action Plan
Values
14. A plan which includes the education and training requirements to reach a career goal
Services
Plan
Career Action Plan
Schedule
15. Jobs or occupations grouped together because of similar knowledge or skills
Loss
Appearance
Career cluster
Prerequisite
16. Cluster that involves the science of maintaining and improving people's physical and mental well-being
Business Management and Administration
Health Science
Agriculture Food and Natural Resources
Time Management
17. A person who owns stock in a company
Specializing
Stockholder
Bachelor's degree
Health Science
18. Cluster that involves protective and legal services
Job Description
Priortize
Fee
Law Public Safety and Security
19. The way in which a person views their own self-worth
Competition
Self-Concept
Career Portfolio
Evaluate
20. The work done over a period of years in one area of interest
Career
Semi-monthly Pay
Business Plan
Follow-up Letter
21. notices that employers put in the classified section of the paper describing their job openings
Help-wanted ads
Tuition
Finance
Work
22. An introductory letter written to a prospective employer
Specializing
Employment Agency
Letter of Application
Job Market
23. To employ oneself in a particular or specific field of work
Aptitude
Classifieds
Semi-monthly Pay
Specializing
24. A plan of action for education - training - and experience to reach a career goal
Job Outlook
On-the-job training (OJT)
Discrimination
Career Ladder
25. Someone who purchases a good or service with the intent to use it
Study Skills
Entry-Level Jobs
Commission
Consumer
26. Possibility of loss
Risk
Specializing
Applicant
Plan
27. The tool that employers use to find out basic information about job applicants
Associate degree
Application form
Fee
Loss
28. The future prospects for employment in a particular job or field
Scholarships
Reference
Job Outlook
Job lead
29. A book used for researching the most common careers in the United States
Persistent
OOH (Occupational Outlook Handbook)
Government and Public Administration
Agriculture Food and Natural Resources
30. A definition of work duties
Job Description
Business Management and Administration
Manufacturing
Year-to-date earnings
31. Receiving a paycheck every other Friday
Information Technology
Bi-Weekly Pay
Specializing
Values
32. Cluster that involves the systematic use of observations and experiments to gain knowledge about the world; the practical use of scientific knowledge; solving practical problems by combining science and mathematics with technology; the study of numbe
Sole Proprietorship
Skill
Free Enterprise System
Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics
33. When a person has to give up part of something they value to resolve a conflict
Apprenticeship
Job Description
Base Pay
Values Compromise
34. Someone who creates a good or service
Full-Time Job
Employer
Career Portfolio
Producer
35. Agreement to complete a job for an amount of money
Entry-Level Jobs
Corporation
Long-Term Goal
Contract Labor
36. Arrange things in order from the most important to the least important
Priortize
Government and Public Administration
Wage
Specializing
37. Way in which one uses or utilitizes the brain best
Brain Orientation
Tuition
Attitude
Time Management
38. The thing a person enjoys doing or thinking about
Interest Inventory
Salary
Values Compromise
Interest
39. A service business designed to help put employees and employers together
Bi-Weekly Pay
Application form
Employment Agency
Specializing
40. Any education or training following high school
Post-secondary education
Learning Style
Research
Human Services
41. Doing a job without pay to gain experience
Networking
Co-worker
Job Shadowing
Volunteering
42. An assessment that helps people identify their interest areas
Annual Leave
Human Services
Interest Inventory
Education and Training
43. Someone who sells goods or services
Business Management and Administration
Contract Labor
Qualification
Vendor
44. Economic rules which influence consumer buying decisions
Laws of supply and demand
Work ethic
Employment Agency
Listening Skills
45. A course that is required before another course can be taken
Prerequisite
Networking
Occupation
Application form
46. The combination of attitude - values - interests - and behaviors that identify a person
Procedure
Tuition
Personality
Corporation
47. Continuing for a long period of time to accomplish a task
Attitude
Follow-up Letter
Persistent
Identity
48. Business owned by one person
Global Economy
Sole Proprietorship
Hospitality and Tourism
Gross pay
49. Jobs that last for a limited period of time
Self-Esteem
Follow-up Letter
Temporary Jobs
Co-worker
50. The personality or activity by which a person is known
Competition
Employer
Identity
Temporary Jobs