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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. Methods of paying for education/training - such as grants - scholarships - etc.
Financial aid
Attitude
Interest Inventory
Job Duty
2. To find out more by reading and talking to people
Goal
Personality Type
Sole Proprietorship
Research
3. Cluster that involves developing - promoting - and providing goods to consumers; performing tasks for consumers
Union
Self-Esteem
Marketing Sales and Service
Arts Audio-Video Technology and Communications
4. Cluster that involves planning - organizing - and directing business operations
Volunteering
Scholarships
Procedure
Business Management and Administration
5. The jobs that beginners start with to train them for higher-level jobs
Work Values
Post-secondary education
Entry-Level Jobs
Corporation
6. Buying a finished good or service with the intent to resell it by the unit
Career Ladder
Interview
Retailing
Job lead
7. Cluster that involves designing and producing materials into intermediate or final products
Entrepreneur
Manufacturing
Ability
Technical
8. Being on time for work
Punctuality
Producer
Business Plan
Outsourcing
9. Payment for work - usually figured by the hour
Law of Supply
Self-Concept
Classifieds
Wage
10. An individual characterstic that helps one determine their personality
Study Skills
Personality Trait
Sick Leave
Law of Supply
11. Anything a person has or uses to reach a goal
Scholarships
Resource
Screen out
Post-secondary education
12. Cluster that involves protective and legal services
Law Public Safety and Security
Job lead
Related Occupations
Goal
13. When two or more companies rival for consumer dollars
Competition
Salary Range
Brain Orientation
Goal
14. To make a plan or arrange things that must be done
Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics
First impression
Career Interest Area
Schedule
15. Cluster that involves designing - building - and repairing structures
Job Outlook
Credit
Architecture and Construction
Stock
16. Cluster that involves computer and Web-based services; telecommunications services
Work ethic
Fringe benefits
Information Technology
Aptitude
17. Any information about possible job openings
Graduate school
Bachelor's degree
Classifieds
Job lead
18. Money accounted for from January 1st through the current pay period
Long-Term Goal
Job lead
Year-to-date earnings
Conflict
19. A description of the goals of a business and how it will operate
Business Plan
Outsourcing
Partnership
Enterprise
20. Units of measurement which schools use to determine whether or not students are progressing toward graduation
Agriculture Food and Natural Resources
Brain Orientation
Career Goal
Credit
21. Clash of ideas or values
Sick Leave
Producer
Conflict
Free Enterprise System
22. Acquaint or become familiar with a new situation
Orientation
Listening Skills
Personnel
Stock
23. A document stating that a person has passed a five-part test in the areas of writing - social studies - science - reading - and math
GED certificate
Ethnic
Help-wanted ads
Overtime
24. A person who organizes - manages - and assumes the risk of a business
Entrepreneur
Occupation
Business Management and Administration
Temporary Jobs
25. Average expected earnings from beginning to experienced pay
Salary Range
Personnel
Stock
ArkOscar
26. Using People in foreign countries to assemble parts; utilizing external resources - and saving labor costs
Schedule
Short-Term Goal
Technology
Outsourcing
27. Jobs that last for a limited period of time
Values
Entrepreneur
Temporary Jobs
Law Public Safety and Security
28. Rules of behavior in the workplace
Follow-up Letter
Work ethic
Plan
Transportation - Distribution - and Logistics
29. Fixed amount of money earned - regardless of hours worked; pay that is calculated exactly the same for every check
Procedure
Applicant
Ethnic
Salary
30. A wide variety of workers with different backgrounds - experiences - ideas - and skills in the workplace
Human Services
Workforce diversity
Job Shadowing
GED certificate
31. An objective that a person wants to obtain and works to achieve
Goal
Employer
Producer
Volunteering
32. A person who works with you
Career Action Plan
Occupation
Technology
Co-worker
33. Way in which one uses or utilitizes the brain best
Apprenticeship
Brain Orientation
Arts Audio-Video Technology and Communications
Working Conditions
34. The ability to perform a certain activity well
Skill
Scholarships
Listening
Education and Training
35. The course of action one decides to take at the end of the decision-making process
Working Conditions
GED certificate
Plan
Marketing Sales and Service
36. The need for workers in a particular occupation or field
Job Market
Working Conditions
Corporation
Sick Leave
37. Focusing or concentrating in a particular skill
Discrimination
Specializing
Co-worker
Career cluster
38. A short written description of an applicant's personal data - education - and experience - related to a job
Gross pay
Finance
Resume
ArkOscar
39. 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
Education and Training
Free Enterprise System
Apprenticeship
Job Market
40. Business owned by one person
Union
Career Action Plan
Persistent
Sole Proprietorship
41. A course that is not required but can be chosen by a student according to their interests
Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics
Elective
Base Pay
Vocation
42. Someone who purchases a good or service with the intent to use it
Attitude
Finance
Part-Time Jobs
Consumer
43. The planning and using of time
Tentative Decision
Time Management
Law of Supply
Outsourcing
44. Intangible work done for others as an occupation
Hospitality and Tourism
Career Ladder
Services
Related Occupations
45. A share of the ownership in a company
Wholesale
Entrepreneur
Stock
Time Management
46. Tangible merchandise that you can see and touch
Interest Inventory
Aptitude
Orientation
Goods
47. Doing a job without pay to gain experience
Related Occupations
Career Portfolio
Volunteering
Consumer
48. A program where a person learns to do a certain job by working with a skilled worker
Apprenticeship
Law Public Safety and Security
Law of Supply
Education/Training Requirements
49. To eliminate unwanted applicants
Commission
Listening Skills
Resume
Screen out
50. Something a person wants to acheive later in life requiring much planning
Long-Term Goal
Resume
Volunteering
ArkOscar