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Career Vocab
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soft-skills
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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 coordinating the movement of people - goods - and services; career cluster - jobs or occupations grouped together because of similar knowledge or skills
Free Enterprise System
Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA)
Transportation - Distribution - and Logistics
Conflict
2. Jobs that last for a limited period of time
Salary
Gross pay
Risk
Temporary Jobs
3. To eliminate unwanted applicants
Personality Type
Employer
Laws of supply and demand
Screen out
4. Buying a finished good or service with the intent to resell it by the unit
Retailing
Hospitality and Tourism
Work Environment
Fringe benefits
5. Jobs with similiar work actvities
Resume
Attitude
Volunteering
Career Interest Area
6. A share of the ownership in a company
Workforce diversity
Vocational
Stock
Short-Term Goal
7. A belief - understanding - and recognition of one's own abilities
Self-Esteem
Decision
Prerequisite
Vendor
8. Arrange things in order from the most important to the least important
Ethnic
Outsourcing
Full-Time Job
Priortize
9. one who puts off doing things or making decisions
Associate degree
Stockholder
Procrastinator
Punctuality
10. Jobs or occupations grouped together because of similar knowledge or skills
First impression
Career cluster
Part-Time Jobs
Job Description
11. Jobs requiring less than 35-40 hours a week - depending on the employer
Commission
Part-Time Jobs
Stock
Work ethic
12. 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
Scholarships
Transportation - Distribution - and Logistics
Free Enterprise System
Study Skills
13. A person's outlook on life - usually positive or negative
Screen out
Check Stub
Co-worker
Attitude
14. Help-wanted section of the newspaper that lists job openings
Networking
Business Plan
Classifieds
Evaluate
15. The jobs that beginners start with to train them for higher-level jobs
Overtime
Decision
Entry-Level Jobs
Job Description
16. Earnings below the cost of doing business
Education/Training Requirements
Check Stub
Demographics
Loss
17. An action or series of actions determined by an employer for a specific process
Education/Training Requirements
Hospitality and Tourism
Internship
Procedure
18. 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
Orientation
Agriculture Food and Natural Resources
Part-Time Jobs
Prerequisite
19. Hearing - learning - and retaining verbal information
Full-Time Job
Career Ladder
Self-Concept
Listening Skills
20. The person who has hires someone to do a job
Enterprise
Employer
Gross pay
Profit
21. Temporary work during the summer
Seasonal Work
Elective
Law of Demand
Job
22. Business owned by many people but treated by the law as though it were one person
Enterprise
Specializing
Corporation
Sole Proprietorship
23. A wide variety of workers with different backgrounds - experiences - ideas - and skills in the workplace
Job Duty
Vendor
Job lead
Workforce diversity
24. A group of employees
Employment Agency
Work Environment
Personnel
Commission
25. Work that a person does for pay
Enterprise
Brain Orientation
Gross pay
Job
26. A productive activity resulting in something useful
Work
Services
Fringe benefits
Union dues
27. An assessment that helps people identify their interest areas
Demographics
Follow-up Letter
Part-Time Jobs
Interest Inventory
28. Fixed amount of money earned - regardless of hours worked; pay that is calculated exactly the same for every check
Salary
Economy
Interest Inventory
Specializing
29. Salary of wages given to an employee on a regular basis
Appearance
Career Goal
Payroll
Consumer
30. The ability or potential for learning new skills
Economy
Aptitude
Part-Time Jobs
Enterprise
31. A resource that involves communicating information with others
Interview
Technical
Networking
Evaluate
32. Generally 40 Hour work week or more
On-the-job training (OJT)
Full-Time Job
Employer
Post-secondary education
33. Cluster that involves protective and legal services
Fee
Law Public Safety and Security
Goal
Associate degree
34. Methods of paying for education/training - such as grants - scholarships - etc.
Financial aid
Corporation
Apprenticeship
Job Shadowing
35. The future prospects for employment in a particular job or field
Gross pay
Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA)
Values
Job Outlook
36. Amount of money taken from an employee's gross pay for taxes - insurance - social security - and other benefits
Education and Training
Deduction
Personnel
Contract Labor
37. Commoney known as Social Security
Union dues
Attitude
Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA)
OOH (Occupational Outlook Handbook)
38. Money accounted for from January 1st through the current pay period
Laws of supply and demand
Values Compromise
Procedure
Year-to-date earnings
39. A long term work plan including education - training - and experience
Demographics
Application form
Career Goal
Work
40. Cumulative time given to employees for personal or family illness with pay
Goods
Qualification
Sick Leave
Study Skills
41. The tool that employers use to find out basic information about job applicants
Listening Skills
Architecture and Construction
Application form
Contract Labor
42. The total amount of an employee's earnings before deductions are taken out
Resource
Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics
Elective
Gross pay
43. Occupational Information Network compiled by the United States Department of Labor
Classifieds
Full-Time Job
O*Net
Temporary Jobs
44. notices that employers put in the classified section of the paper describing their job openings
Help-wanted ads
Job Description
Employment Outlook
Tentative Decision
45. A thank you letter written following an interview
Related Occupations
Profit
Information Technology
Follow-up Letter
46. A short written description of an applicant's personal data - education - and experience - related to a job
Business Management and Administration
Resume
Work Values
Economy
47. Cluster that involves planning - organizing - and directing business operations
Business Management and Administration
Long-Term Goal
Employer
Corporation
48. Any information about possible job openings
Vocational
OOH (Occupational Outlook Handbook)
Job lead
Outsourcing
49. Instant opinion - based on certain clues - such as the way you look - act - and talk
Marketing Sales and Service
First impression
Credit
Occupation
50. First thing an interviewer notices: an applicant's dress - hair - and grooming
Appearance
Free Enterprise System
Services
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