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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. Way in which one uses or utilitizes the brain best
Brain Orientation
Decision-Making Process
Procrastinator
Profit
2. Anything a person has or uses to reach a goal
Apprenticeship
Brain Orientation
Vendor
Resource
3. Buying a finished good or service with the intent to resell it by the unit
Screen out
Retailing
Long-Term Goal
Outsourcing
4. Hearing - learning - and retaining verbal information
Union dues
Listening Skills
Economy
Decision-Making Process
5. Worldwide financial management system
Commission
Health Science
Global Economy
Check Stub
6. A formal meeting between an employer and job applicant about a job opening
Gross pay
Financial aid
Interview
Work
7. The ability to perform a certain activity well
Study Skills
Risk
Skill
Workforce diversity
8. Money accounted for from January 1st through the current pay period
Graduate school
Skill
ArkOscar
Year-to-date earnings
9. A course or program that teaches job skills
Vocational
Entry-Level Jobs
Arts Audio-Video Technology and Communications
Overtime
10. Jobs requiring less than 35-40 hours a week - depending on the employer
Appearance
Part-Time Jobs
Finance
Fringe benefits
11. A skill that you have developed
Annual Leave
Law of Supply
Ability
On-the-job training (OJT)
12. Cluster that involves services involving lodging - entertainment - recreation - and travel; food and beverage management
Procedure
Job Shadowing
Hospitality and Tourism
Skill
13. An assessment that helps people identify their interest areas
Professional
Orientation
Interest Inventory
Time Management
14. To eliminate unwanted applicants
Overtime
Screen out
Union dues
Information Technology
15. Treating someone unfairly because of his or her race - religion - or sex
Human Services
Tentative Decision
Compromise
Discrimination
16. A person who organizes - manages - and assumes the risk of a business
Follow-up Letter
Entry-Level Jobs
Temporary Jobs
Entrepreneur
17. A share of the ownership in a company
Graduate school
Self-Esteem
Job Shadowing
Stock
18. An action or series of actions determined by an employer for a specific process
Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA)
Career Ladder
Procedure
Employer
19. A description of the goals of a business and how it will operate
Job Description
Evaluate
Business Plan
Associate degree
20. A plan of action for education - training - and experience to reach a career goal
Career Ladder
Job Description
Listening
Values
21. A belief - understanding - and recognition of one's own abilities
Self-Esteem
Profit
Wholesale
Appearance
22. Business which two or more people own and operate
Partnership
Personality Trait
Fee
Wholesale
23. Cluster that involves visual and performing arts; multimedia communications; journalism
Career Portfolio
Employer
Arts Audio-Video Technology and Communications
Job Shadowing
24. To find out more by reading and talking to people
Punctuality
Persistent
Research
Wholesale
25. Natural method or way one thinks or learns
Learning Style
First impression
Commission
Letter of Application
26. A person who owns stock in a company
Law Public Safety and Security
Appearance
Sick Leave
Stockholder
27. A free flowing economy based upon the laws of supply and demand to allow individuals or companies to buy and sell goods and/or services at a profit
Personnel
Free Enterprise System
Research
Information Technology
28. A temporary paid or unpaid position that involves direct work experience in a career field
Free Enterprise System
Letter of Application
Persistent
Internship
29. Any information about possible job openings
Lifestyle
Job Outlook
Employment Agency
Job lead
30. Cluster that involves developing - promoting - and providing goods to consumers; performing tasks for consumers
Marketing Sales and Service
Wholesale
Overtime
Outsourcing
31. Clash of ideas or values
Risk
Specializing
Conflict
Check Stub
32. Fixed amount of money earned - regardless of hours worked; pay that is calculated exactly the same for every check
Law Public Safety and Security
Skill
Salary
Law of Demand
33. Cluster that involves computer and Web-based services; telecommunications services
Information Technology
Work Values
Co-worker
Salary Range
34. The choice between two or more possibilities
Interest Inventory
Decision
Business Plan
Prerequisite
35. 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
Corporation
Sick Leave
Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics
Demographics
36. Rules of behavior in the workplace
Work ethic
Business Management and Administration
Punctuality
Specializing
37. Cluster that involves planning - organizing - and directing business operations
First impression
Punctuality
Retailing
Business Management and Administration
38. one who puts off doing things or making decisions
Research
Credit
Free Enterprise System
Procrastinator
39. Something one wants to obtain in the near future generally less than 5 years
Fringe benefits
Short-Term Goal
Plan
Salary
40. A person who will give a favorable report of a job applicant to the employer
Career Portfolio
Reference
Elective
Career cluster
41. Earnings paid twice a month on designated dates
Base Pay
Semi-monthly Pay
Salary
Corporation
42. A document stating that a person has passed a five-part test in the areas of writing - social studies - science - reading - and math
Year-to-date earnings
Check Stub
Resume
GED certificate
43. A computerized career information delivery system
Salary Range
Values Compromise
Assessment
ArkOscar
44. Generally 40 Hour work week or more
Vendor
Career Action Plan
Schedule
Full-Time Job
45. Pay that is based upon the percentage of sales
GED certificate
Salary
Laws of supply and demand
Commission
46. Relating to races or groups of people with common customs
Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics
Ethnic
Salary
Personality Type
47. Cluster that involves designing and producing materials into intermediate or final products
Personality Type
Manufacturing
Prerequisite
Outsourcing
48. Occupational Information Network compiled by the United States Department of Labor
O*Net
Information Technology
Employer
Architecture and Construction
49. This involves hearing - thinking about and responding to what the speaker is saying
Law of Demand
Self-Esteem
Listening
Human Services
50. A course that is not required but can be chosen by a student according to their interests
Architecture and Construction
Competition
Elective
Global Economy