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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. The fee that colleges charge to take their classes
Job Outlook
Vendor
Evaluate
Tuition
2. Tangible merchandise that you can see and touch
Manufacturing
Goods
Credit
Hospitality and Tourism
3. A certificate of completion awarded to a person after completing a program of study in a particular area - usually lasting 2 years
Overtime
Job Shadowing
Outsourcing
Associate degree
4. An objective that a person wants to obtain and works to achieve
Decision-Making Process
Prerequisite
Marketing Sales and Service
Goal
5. Following a person on the job to learn job duties and responsibilities
Loss
Job Shadowing
Career Interest Area
Goal
6. The environment of the workplace
Career cluster
OOH (Occupational Outlook Handbook)
Year-to-date earnings
Working Conditions
7. To find out more by reading and talking to people
Information Technology
Qualification
Reference
Research
8. Natural method or way one thinks or learns
Tentative Decision
Learning Style
Vocational
Decision-Making Process
9. When a person has to give up part of something they value to resolve a conflict
Values Compromise
Resume
Employment Agency
Procrastinator
10. The amount of a paycheck after the deductions are taken out
Net pay
Internet
Applicant
Vocational
11. Cluster that involves services that improve people's quality of life and promote safe - healthy communities
Human Services
Entry-Level Jobs
Base Pay
Goal
12. A long term work plan including education - training - and experience
Career Goal
O*Net
Graduate school
Salary Range
13. The jobs that beginners start with to train them for higher-level jobs
Professional
Employment Outlook
Entry-Level Jobs
Attitude
14. Money received for education that does not have to be repaid
Post-secondary education
Employment Outlook
Scholarships
Salary Range
15. To look at closely and judge
Short-Term Goal
Evaluate
Tentative Decision
Overtime
16. A course or program that teaches job skills
Specializing
Workforce diversity
Vocational
Job Shadowing
17. A short written description of an applicant's personal data - education - and experience - related to a job
Career Portfolio
Resume
Contract Labor
Interview
18. A group of workers who collectively bargin for higher wages - improved benefits - and better working conditions
Specializing
Temporary Jobs
Year-to-date earnings
Union
19. Cluster that involves acquiring - investing - and managing money
Law Public Safety and Security
Finance
Salary
Letter of Application
20. A person applying for a job
Applicant
Financial aid
Demographics
ArkOscar
21. Someone who creates a good or service
Manufacturing
Producer
Global Economy
Job Duty
22. Earnings above base pay
Overtime
Outsourcing
Networking
Internship
23. Work that a person does for pay
Job
Commission
Fee
Technical
24. one who puts off doing things or making decisions
Health Science
Employment Agency
Procrastinator
Law of Supply
25. An assessment that helps people identify their interest areas
Outsourcing
Prerequisite
Internet
Interest Inventory
26. A computerized career information delivery system
Employment Outlook
Employer
Career Action Plan
ArkOscar
27. A person who organizes - manages - and assumes the risk of a business
Temporary Jobs
Entrepreneur
Stock
Check Stub
28. The tool that employers use to find out basic information about job applicants
Salary Range
Application form
Workforce diversity
Goal
29. The prospect for the future of a job or career
O*Net
Procrastinator
Employment Outlook
Stock
30. As the price increases producers produce more
Payroll
Screen out
Education/Training Requirements
Law of Supply
31. A person who will give a favorable report of a job applicant to the employer
Career cluster
Wage
Reference
Economy
32. Doing a job without pay to gain experience
Screen out
Transportation - Distribution - and Logistics
Business Plan
Volunteering
33. Way in which one uses or utilitizes the brain best
Learning Style
Payroll
Brain Orientation
Job Market
34. To eliminate unwanted applicants
Discrimination
Screen out
Global Economy
Partnership
35. Occupational Information Network compiled by the United States Department of Labor
Self-Esteem
Vocational
O*Net
Financial aid
36. Focusing or concentrating in a particular skill
Apprenticeship
Specializing
Gross pay
Classifieds
37. Standards one believes is important about their work
Work Values
Apprenticeship
Lifestyle
Job Market
38. Salary of wages given to an employee on a regular basis
Persistent
Job lead
Payroll
OOH (Occupational Outlook Handbook)
39. Money earned above the cost of doing business
Risk
Consumer
Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA)
Profit
40. 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
Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics
Temporary Jobs
Elective
Goods
41. Personal standards by which one lives
Values
Scholarships
Internet
Self-Esteem
42. Being on time for work
Credit
Work ethic
Punctuality
Ethnic
43. A thank you letter written following an interview
Elective
Education/Training Requirements
Workforce diversity
Follow-up Letter
44. Cluster that involves coordinating the movement of people - goods - and services; career cluster - jobs or occupations grouped together because of similar knowledge or skills
Finance
Risk
Transportation - Distribution - and Logistics
Job
45. Receiving a paycheck every other Friday
Bachelor's degree
Full-Time Job
Decision
Bi-Weekly Pay
46. The steps one takes to make the best decision
Elective
Decision-Making Process
Annual Leave
Wholesale
47. The future prospects for employment in a particular job or field
Credit
Job Outlook
Career Ladder
Bachelor's degree
48. Payment for work - usually figured by the hour
Manufacturing
Interest
Deduction
Wage
49. Business owned by many people but treated by the law as though it were one person
Corporation
Semi-monthly Pay
Loss
Business Management and Administration
50. A course that is not required but can be chosen by a student according to their interests
Loss
Elective
Post-secondary education
Self-Concept