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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. Fixed amount of money earned - regardless of hours worked; pay that is calculated exactly the same for every check
Sick Leave
Economy
Salary
Temporary Jobs
2. Occupational Information Network compiled by the United States Department of Labor
O*Net
Wage
Entry-Level Jobs
Part-Time Jobs
3. Instant opinion - based on certain clues - such as the way you look - act - and talk
Bachelor's degree
Conflict
First impression
Assessment
4. A service business designed to help put employees and employers together
Credit
Corporation
Employment Agency
Short-Term Goal
5. Arrange things in order from the most important to the least important
Fringe benefits
Deduction
Priortize
Evaluate
6. one who puts off doing things or making decisions
Net pay
Procrastinator
Union dues
Listening Skills
7. Generally 40 Hour work week or more
Stock
Wholesale
Full-Time Job
Union
8. Someone who sells goods or services
Goal
Procrastinator
Decision
Vendor
9. The ability to perform a certain activity well
Letter of Application
Skill
Job Market
Priortize
10. Amount of money taken from an employee's gross pay for taxes - insurance - social security - and other benefits
Deduction
Retailing
Work Values
Work
11. Money earned above the cost of doing business
Networking
Profit
Overtime
Specializing
12. Standard minimum pay received by an employee
Personnel
Competition
Wage
Base Pay
13. Way in which one uses or utilitizes the brain best
Applicant
Assessment
Employment Agency
Brain Orientation
14. Rules of behavior in the workplace
Co-worker
Work ethic
Persistent
Temporary Jobs
15. Cluster that involves computer and Web-based services; telecommunications services
Appearance
Global Economy
Stockholder
Information Technology
16. To make a plan or arrange things that must be done
Deduction
Career
Schedule
Information Technology
17. The personality or activity by which a person is known
Job Shadowing
Plan
Goal
Identity
18. Acquaint or become familiar with a new situation
Part-Time Jobs
Orientation
Information Technology
Volunteering
19. A course that is not required but can be chosen by a student according to their interests
Elective
Services
Business Plan
Personality
20. This involves hearing - thinking about and responding to what the speaker is saying
Listening
Architecture and Construction
Profit
Internship
21. The future prospects for employment in a particular job or field
Career Ladder
Competition
Time Management
Job Outlook
22. Money accounted for from January 1st through the current pay period
Semi-monthly Pay
Post-secondary education
Year-to-date earnings
Personnel
23. The instructional background and skills needed to qualify for employment
Government and Public Administration
Resume
Education/Training Requirements
Prerequisite
24. Treating someone unfairly because of his or her race - religion - or sex
Transportation - Distribution - and Logistics
Long-Term Goal
Risk
Discrimination
25. Commoney known as Social Security
Personality Trait
Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA)
Enterprise
Evaluate
26. The surrounding physical conditions of a workplace
Co-worker
Work Values
Work Environment
Workforce diversity
27. A group of employees
Risk
Working Conditions
Personnel
Arts Audio-Video Technology and Communications
28. Tangible merchandise that you can see and touch
Marketing Sales and Service
Goods
Education and Training
Job lead
29. Determining the best way for an individual to study - remember - or learn
Consumer
Interview
Ethnic
Study Skills
30. A document stating that a person has passed a five-part test in the areas of writing - social studies - science - reading - and math
Wholesale
Salary Range
GED certificate
Letter of Application
31. Doing a job without pay to gain experience
Credit
Fee
Tuition
Volunteering
32. Work that a person does for pay
Scholarships
Listening Skills
Volunteering
Job
33. Natural method or way one thinks or learns
Learning Style
Ethnic
Screen out
Aptitude
34. Relating to a specific field with a high degree of skill or experience
Competition
Elective
Career Interest Area
Professional
35. Cluster that involves providing education and training services; providing support services
Education and Training
Goods
Base Pay
Career Interest Area
36. As the price increases producers produce more
Law of Supply
Fee
Discrimination
Entry-Level Jobs
37. Jobs that last for a limited period of time
Education/Training Requirements
Temporary Jobs
Services
Laws of supply and demand
38. The use of goods or service to make life easier creating new jobs while eliminating others
Technology
Part-Time Jobs
Skill
Plan
39. A special skill - knowledge - or ability that enables a person to perform a particular job
Financial aid
Business Plan
Laws of supply and demand
Qualification
40. Earnings paid twice a month on designated dates
Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA)
Compromise
ArkOscar
Semi-monthly Pay
41. Characteristics or make-up of a population
Evaluate
Personnel
OOH (Occupational Outlook Handbook)
Demographics
42. To buy in bulk form wi the intent to resell by the case
Professional
Scholarships
Wholesale
Decision-Making Process
43. To employ oneself in a particular or specific field of work
Assessment
Gross pay
Persistent
Specializing
44. The amount of a paycheck after the deductions are taken out
Attitude
Net pay
Education and Training
Health Science
45. A person who will give a favorable report of a job applicant to the employer
Check Stub
Entry-Level Jobs
Reference
GED certificate
46. The tool that employers use to find out basic information about job applicants
Overtime
Post-secondary education
Application form
Internet
47. Any information about possible job openings
Job lead
Credit
Procrastinator
Volunteering
48. The work done over a period of years in one area of interest
Global Economy
Career
Apprenticeship
Long-Term Goal
49. Cluster that involves growing and processing crops for human use; raising and processing animals for human use; using raw materials that occur naturally in the earth
Agriculture Food and Natural Resources
Health Science
Letter of Application
Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics
50. A skill that you have developed
Internet
Ability
Prerequisite
Letter of Application