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Career Vocab
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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. Buying a finished good or service with the intent to resell it by the unit
Transportation - Distribution - and Logistics
Enterprise
Law Public Safety and Security
Retailing
2. Cluster that involves designing and producing materials into intermediate or final products
Manufacturing
Union
Employment Agency
Resource
3. A special skill - knowledge - or ability that enables a person to perform a particular job
Entrepreneur
Qualification
Conflict
Full-Time Job
4. 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
Risk
Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics
Global Economy
Partnership
5. Something a person wants to acheive later in life requiring much planning
Co-worker
Ethnic
Job Shadowing
Long-Term Goal
6. Personal standards by which one lives
Year-to-date earnings
Temporary Jobs
Values
Schedule
7. Earnings below the cost of doing business
Loss
Job Duty
Screen out
ArkOscar
8. Natural method or way one thinks or learns
Time Management
Vocation
Learning Style
Payroll
9. Characteristics or make-up of a population
Appearance
Demographics
Wage
GED certificate
10. Relating to a specific field with a high degree of skill or experience
Transportation - Distribution - and Logistics
Job Duty
Professional
On-the-job training (OJT)
11. Business which two or more people own and operate
Letter of Application
Partnership
Interview
Technical
12. Undertaking or venture to make more with risk
Job Outlook
Enterprise
Vocational
Work Environment
13. As the prices decreases producers purchase more
Law of Demand
Employment Outlook
ArkOscar
Vocational
14. When two or more companies rival for consumer dollars
Classifieds
Competition
Enterprise
Work Values
15. Cluster that involves visual and performing arts; multimedia communications; journalism
Arts Audio-Video Technology and Communications
Job Shadowing
Temporary Jobs
Working Conditions
16. A long term work plan including education - training - and experience
Screen out
Partnership
Ability
Career Goal
17. A formal meeting between an employer and job applicant about a job opening
Government and Public Administration
Post-secondary education
Gross pay
Interview
18. Any information about possible job openings
Job lead
Bi-Weekly Pay
Long-Term Goal
Research
19. Earnings above base pay
Job Market
Finance
Personality Type
Overtime
20. Cluster that involves the science of maintaining and improving people's physical and mental well-being
Business Management and Administration
Financial aid
Health Science
Career Interest Area
21. Cluster that involves protective and legal services
Government and Public Administration
Vocational
Fringe benefits
Law Public Safety and Security
22. When a person has to give up part of something they value to resolve a conflict
Values Compromise
Conflict
Lifestyle
Interest Inventory
23. Rules of behavior in the workplace
Full-Time Job
Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics
Work ethic
Procrastinator
24. Cluster that involves services that improve people's quality of life and promote safe - healthy communities
Goods
Resource
GED certificate
Human Services
25. Work that a person does for pay
Job
Goods
Resume
Consumer
26. Money accounted for from January 1st through the current pay period
Year-to-date earnings
Annual Leave
Wholesale
Marketing Sales and Service
27. The choice between two or more possibilities
Temporary Jobs
Decision
Occupation
Ability
28. Payment for work - usually figured by the hour
Interview
Volunteering
Wage
Networking
29. The fee that colleges charge to take their classes
Information Technology
Tuition
Temporary Jobs
Check Stub
30. A person who works with you
Tentative Decision
Government and Public Administration
Co-worker
ArkOscar
31. A person's outlook on life - usually positive or negative
Associate degree
Tentative Decision
Information Technology
Attitude
32. The prospect for the future of a job or career
Employment Outlook
Transportation - Distribution - and Logistics
Corporation
Interest Inventory
33. A definition of work duties
Aptitude
Prerequisite
Seasonal Work
Job Description
34. Help-wanted section of the newspaper that lists job openings
Attitude
Classifieds
Job Outlook
Law Public Safety and Security
35. Earnings paid twice a month on designated dates
Semi-monthly Pay
Related Occupations
Wage
Career Action Plan
36. Determining the best way for an individual to study - remember - or learn
Procedure
Identity
Study Skills
Full-Time Job
37. To eliminate unwanted applicants
Screen out
Semi-monthly Pay
Overtime
Competition
38. The amount of a paycheck after the deductions are taken out
Classifieds
Bachelor's degree
Net pay
Apprenticeship
39. Cluster that involves planning - organizing - and directing business operations
Business Management and Administration
Plan
Learning Style
Networking
40. Someone who creates a good or service
Employer
Producer
Goal
Aptitude
41. An individual characterstic that helps one determine their personality
Appearance
Co-worker
Personality Trait
Scholarships
42. A program where a person learns to do a certain job by working with a skilled worker
Career Action Plan
Retailing
Resource
Apprenticeship
43. Jobs that last for a limited period of time
Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics
Temporary Jobs
Career Goal
Law Public Safety and Security
44. A short written description of an applicant's personal data - education - and experience - related to a job
Personnel
Resume
Orientation
Loss
45. A specialized scientific work in manufacturing and industry
Working Conditions
Technical
Career Action Plan
Job lead
46. The combination of attitude - values - interests - and behaviors that identify a person
OOH (Occupational Outlook Handbook)
Ethnic
Personality
Help-wanted ads
47. Using People in foreign countries to assemble parts; utilizing external resources - and saving labor costs
Career Action Plan
Outsourcing
Fringe benefits
Transportation - Distribution - and Logistics
48. Relating to races or groups of people with common customs
Ethnic
Associate degree
Values
Business Plan
49. A task one is expected to perform on the job
Job Duty
Career Ladder
Gross pay
Business Management and Administration
50. A share of the ownership in a company
Job Outlook
Application form
Stock
Wage