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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. Possibility of loss
Risk
Arts Audio-Video Technology and Communications
Internship
Persistent
2. Temporary work during the summer
Time Management
Seasonal Work
Graduate school
Outsourcing
3. Something a person wants to acheive later in life requiring much planning
ArkOscar
Enterprise
Long-Term Goal
Lifestyle
4. The thing a person enjoys doing or thinking about
Arts Audio-Video Technology and Communications
Interest
Procrastinator
Listening Skills
5. Jobs or occupations grouped together because of similar knowledge or skills
Career cluster
Retailing
Graduate school
Technical
6. The prospect for the future of a job or career
Assessment
Global Economy
Employment Outlook
Job Outlook
7. Earnings below the cost of doing business
Loss
Occupation
Time Management
Career Portfolio
8. A special skill - knowledge - or ability that enables a person to perform a particular job
Orientation
Qualification
Outsourcing
Entrepreneur
9. A person who owns stock in a company
Fringe benefits
Vocation
GED certificate
Stockholder
10. Earnings paid twice a month on designated dates
Prerequisite
Internship
Entrepreneur
Semi-monthly Pay
11. Money accounted for from January 1st through the current pay period
Year-to-date earnings
Fringe benefits
Partnership
Producer
12. The ability or potential for learning new skills
First impression
Prerequisite
Aptitude
Learning Style
13. Relating to a specific field with a high degree of skill or experience
Professional
Stock
Net pay
Information Technology
14. The personality or activity by which a person is known
Ability
Career
Identity
Retailing
15. A person who organizes - manages - and assumes the risk of a business
Consumer
Entrepreneur
Interview
Plan
16. When a person has to give up part of something they value to resolve a conflict
Values Compromise
Architecture and Construction
Health Science
Partnership
17. A formal meeting between an employer and job applicant about a job opening
Payroll
Union dues
Time Management
Interview
18. A document stating that a person has passed a five-part test in the areas of writing - social studies - science - reading - and math
Brain Orientation
Temporary Jobs
GED certificate
Graduate school
19. Payment for work - usually figured by the hour
Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics
Risk
Consumer
Wage
20. An individual characterstic that helps one determine their personality
Resource
Personality Trait
Follow-up Letter
Profit
21. Relating to races or groups of people with common customs
Corporation
Career Ladder
First impression
Ethnic
22. Business which two or more people own and operate
Letter of Application
Partnership
Evaluate
Compromise
23. Earnings above base pay
GED certificate
Overtime
Career Action Plan
Producer
24. Money received for education that does not have to be repaid
Help-wanted ads
Ethnic
Career Goal
Scholarships
25. Worldwide financial management system
ArkOscar
Global Economy
Education and Training
Union
26. Learning on the job
On-the-job training (OJT)
Internet
Job lead
Loss
27. An occupation one is well-suited or qualified for
Health Science
Vocational
Work ethic
Vocation
28. The tool that employers use to find out basic information about job applicants
Application form
Law of Demand
Bachelor's degree
Career
29. Characteristics or make-up of a population
Wholesale
Ethnic
Associate degree
Demographics
30. Cluster that involves developing - promoting - and providing goods to consumers; performing tasks for consumers
Career Portfolio
Work Values
Marketing Sales and Service
Technical
31. Using People in foreign countries to assemble parts; utilizing external resources - and saving labor costs
Deduction
Outsourcing
Sole Proprietorship
Education/Training Requirements
32. Work that a person does for pay
Values Compromise
Job
Wage
Prerequisite
33. The fee that colleges charge to take their classes
Skill
Year-to-date earnings
Tuition
Identity
34. The use of goods or service to make life easier creating new jobs while eliminating others
Technology
Enterprise
Salary
Job Market
35. The instructional background and skills needed to qualify for employment
Job Shadowing
Education/Training Requirements
Letter of Application
Government and Public Administration
36. Salary of wages given to an employee on a regular basis
Learning Style
Payroll
Producer
Temporary Jobs
37. The work done over a period of years in one area of interest
Information Technology
Qualification
Enterprise
Career
38. Amount of money taken from an employee's gross pay for taxes - insurance - social security - and other benefits
Deduction
Post-secondary education
Law of Demand
Career Action Plan
39. Jobs with similiar work actvities
Career Interest Area
O*Net
Qualification
Learning Style
40. The need for workers in a particular occupation or field
Loss
Personality Trait
Job Market
Full-Time Job
41. An introductory letter written to a prospective employer
Persistent
Letter of Application
Law of Supply
Goal
42. Units of measurement which schools use to determine whether or not students are progressing toward graduation
Credit
Personality Trait
Competition
Career cluster
43. When two or more companies rival for consumer dollars
Tuition
Specializing
Gross pay
Competition
44. Focusing or concentrating in a particular skill
Specializing
Employment Outlook
Goods
Job Description
45. Being on time for work
Apprenticeship
Producer
Goal
Punctuality
46. Extras provided by employers (other than wages)
Commission
Fringe benefits
Consumer
Interest
47. A description of the goals of a business and how it will operate
Punctuality
Business Plan
Work ethic
Base Pay
48. Pay that is based upon the percentage of sales
Health Science
Classifieds
Stockholder
Commission
49. Treating someone unfairly because of his or her race - religion - or sex
Work Environment
Discrimination
Part-Time Jobs
Salary
50. notices that employers put in the classified section of the paper describing their job openings
Wage
Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics
Help-wanted ads
Elective