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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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1. A temporary paid or unpaid position that involves direct work experience in a career field
Tentative Decision
Internship
Identity
Time Management
2. Time an employee may take off work with pay
Listening
Ethnic
Annual Leave
Brain Orientation
3. Careful use of resources including money and materials
Consumer
Architecture and Construction
Discrimination
Economy
4. This involves hearing - thinking about and responding to what the speaker is saying
Health Science
Decision
Listening
Base Pay
5. Salary of wages given to an employee on a regular basis
Sole Proprietorship
Research
Payroll
Outsourcing
6. Standards one believes is important about their work
Appearance
Health Science
Work Values
Career Interest Area
7. An assessment that helps people identify their interest areas
Interest Inventory
Vocation
Year-to-date earnings
ArkOscar
8. Cluster that involves protective and legal services
Law Public Safety and Security
Bi-Weekly Pay
Volunteering
Values Compromise
9. To give up something to resolve a conflict
Architecture and Construction
Personnel
Compromise
Values
10. Doing a job without pay to gain experience
Volunteering
Employment Outlook
Union dues
Procedure
11. Worldwide financial management system
Employment Agency
Global Economy
Goal
Career Ladder
12. The need for workers in a particular occupation or field
Interest
Job Market
Follow-up Letter
Career Goal
13. Cluster that involves computer and Web-based services; telecommunications services
Competition
Loss
Information Technology
Education and Training
14. A skill that you have developed
Qualification
Ability
Study Skills
Stockholder
15. The total amount of an employee's earnings before deductions are taken out
Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics
Gross pay
Tuition
On-the-job training (OJT)
16. Jobs or occupations grouped together because of similar knowledge or skills
Evaluate
Career cluster
Listening Skills
Technology
17. Being on time for work
Punctuality
Entry-Level Jobs
Skill
Career Ladder
18. An individual characterstic that helps one determine their personality
Personality Trait
Interest Inventory
Full-Time Job
Prerequisite
19. Commoney known as Social Security
Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA)
Internet
Lifestyle
Check Stub
20. Methods of paying for education/training - such as grants - scholarships - etc.
Financial aid
Employment Agency
Employment Outlook
Internship
21. Cluster that involves the science of maintaining and improving people's physical and mental well-being
Services
Interest
Health Science
Co-worker
22. Cluster that involves services that improve people's quality of life and promote safe - healthy communities
Identity
Human Services
Work Values
Economy
23. Cluster that involves designing and producing materials into intermediate or final products
Manufacturing
Part-Time Jobs
Outsourcing
Apprenticeship
24. The steps one takes to make the best decision
Year-to-date earnings
Personality
Seasonal Work
Decision-Making Process
25. Units of measurement which schools use to determine whether or not students are progressing toward graduation
Credit
Personnel
Compromise
Post-secondary education
26. Fees charged by an organization to unite employees
Stock
Internet
Conflict
Union dues
27. Jobs with similiar work actvities
Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA)
Self-Esteem
Law of Supply
Career Interest Area
28. The planning and using of time
Time Management
Goods
Architecture and Construction
Attitude
29. A productive activity resulting in something useful
Corporation
Goods
Arts Audio-Video Technology and Communications
Work
30. Jobs requiring less than 35-40 hours a week - depending on the employer
Part-Time Jobs
Corporation
Government and Public Administration
Self-Esteem
31. Continuing for a long period of time to accomplish a task
Annual Leave
Persistent
Prerequisite
Personality Type
32. The type of job in which a person is employed
Specializing
Occupation
Job lead
Sole Proprietorship
33. Cluster that involves providing education and training services; providing support services
Annual Leave
Specializing
Profit
Education and Training
34. Arrange things in order from the most important to the least important
Priortize
Scholarships
Internet
Contract Labor
35. A special skill - knowledge - or ability that enables a person to perform a particular job
Tentative Decision
Outsourcing
Career Ladder
Qualification
36. Natural method or way one thinks or learns
Learning Style
Architecture and Construction
Goal
Associate degree
37. The course of action one decides to take at the end of the decision-making process
Bi-Weekly Pay
Orientation
ArkOscar
Plan
38. Business owned by many people but treated by the law as though it were one person
Stock
Human Services
Interest Inventory
Corporation
39. Possibility of loss
Corporation
OOH (Occupational Outlook Handbook)
Risk
Lifestyle
40. Relating to a specific field with a high degree of skill or experience
Ethnic
Professional
Aptitude
Salary
41. Buying a finished good or service with the intent to resell it by the unit
Retailing
Qualification
Work Environment
Economy
42. The fee that colleges charge to take their classes
Job Outlook
Tuition
Procrastinator
Gross pay
43. A group of workers who collectively bargin for higher wages - improved benefits - and better working conditions
Decision
Union
Salary Range
Apprenticeship
44. A course that is required before another course can be taken
Time Management
Procrastinator
Career Goal
Prerequisite
45. The ability to perform a certain activity well
Procrastinator
Work Environment
Help-wanted ads
Skill
46. Money earned above the cost of doing business
Enterprise
Profit
Producer
Volunteering
47. Cluster that involves visual and performing arts; multimedia communications; journalism
Arts Audio-Video Technology and Communications
Listening Skills
Law of Supply
Specializing
48. Cumulative time given to employees for personal or family illness with pay
Laws of supply and demand
Sick Leave
Professional
Volunteering
49. Money received for education that does not have to be repaid
Loss
Scholarships
Internet
Free Enterprise System
50. Earnings paid twice a month on designated dates
Semi-monthly Pay
Apprenticeship
Work ethic
On-the-job training (OJT)