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Career Vocab
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Subject
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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. Personal standards by which one lives
Values
Employer
Listening Skills
Credit
2. To buy in bulk form wi the intent to resell by the case
Career Action Plan
Financial aid
OOH (Occupational Outlook Handbook)
Wholesale
3. To look at closely and judge
Evaluate
Business Management and Administration
GED certificate
Interest
4. The combination of attitude - values - interests - and behaviors that identify a person
Check Stub
Personality
Letter of Application
Health Science
5. The environment of the workplace
Goal
Government and Public Administration
Tuition
Working Conditions
6. Amount of money taken from an employee's gross pay for taxes - insurance - social security - and other benefits
Deduction
Personality Trait
Job Outlook
Payroll
7. Any education or training following high school
Priortize
Post-secondary education
Consumer
Employment Outlook
8. The need for workers in a particular occupation or field
Goods
Working Conditions
Union
Job Market
9. Anything a person has or uses to reach a goal
Resource
Personality Type
Interview
Persistent
10. The steps one takes to make the best decision
Decision-Making Process
Job Outlook
Seasonal Work
Partnership
11. An assessment that helps people identify their interest areas
Bachelor's degree
Vocational
Services
Interest Inventory
12. Determining the best way for an individual to study - remember - or learn
Study Skills
Semi-monthly Pay
Conflict
Orientation
13. A long term work plan including education - training - and experience
Career Goal
Wage
Values
Schedule
14. A program of study beyond a bachelor's degree
Lifestyle
Agriculture Food and Natural Resources
Graduate school
Conflict
15. A course that is not required but can be chosen by a student according to their interests
Architecture and Construction
Elective
Ethnic
Screen out
16. A document stating that a person has passed a five-part test in the areas of writing - social studies - science - reading - and math
Qualification
GED certificate
Time Management
Personality
17. An introductory letter written to a prospective employer
Letter of Application
Entrepreneur
Economy
Reference
18. Business which two or more people own and operate
Plan
Learning Style
Partnership
Job Description
19. To make a plan or arrange things that must be done
Reference
Profit
Bachelor's degree
Schedule
20. A certificate of completion awarded to a person after completing a program of study in a particular area - usually lasting 2 years
Learning Style
Associate degree
Elective
Identity
21. Extras provided by employers (other than wages)
Corporation
Profit
Fringe benefits
Self-Esteem
22. The ability to perform a certain activity well
Values
Application form
Skill
Part-Time Jobs
23. An objective that a person wants to obtain and works to achieve
Persistent
Goal
Decision-Making Process
Networking
24. Relating to a specific field with a high degree of skill or experience
Overtime
Laws of supply and demand
Professional
Reference
25. Time an employee may take off work with pay
Work
Annual Leave
Technology
Technical
26. An individual characterstic that helps one determine their personality
Ability
Hospitality and Tourism
Personality Trait
Values
27. A temporary paid or unpaid position that involves direct work experience in a career field
Internship
Associate degree
Union
Time Management
28. Earnings below the cost of doing business
Loss
Career Portfolio
Technology
Values
29. Business owned by many people but treated by the law as though it were one person
Agriculture Food and Natural Resources
Career Ladder
Corporation
Services
30. When a person has to give up part of something they value to resolve a conflict
Transportation - Distribution - and Logistics
Financial aid
Assessment
Values Compromise
31. Pay that is based upon the percentage of sales
Commission
Work
First impression
Gross pay
32. Acquaint or become familiar with a new situation
Apprenticeship
Contract Labor
Marketing Sales and Service
Orientation
33. A group of workers who collectively bargin for higher wages - improved benefits - and better working conditions
Work ethic
Union
Consumer
Sick Leave
34. A belief - understanding - and recognition of one's own abilities
Overtime
Self-Esteem
Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA)
Wage
35. A short written description of an applicant's personal data - education - and experience - related to a job
Punctuality
Bi-Weekly Pay
Decision
Resume
36. To employ oneself in a particular or specific field of work
Fringe benefits
Specializing
Career Interest Area
Identity
37. Worldwide financial management system
Procedure
Goal
Work
Global Economy
38. Cluster that involves coordinating the movement of people - goods - and services; career cluster - jobs or occupations grouped together because of similar knowledge or skills
Transportation - Distribution - and Logistics
Volunteering
Employment Outlook
Full-Time Job
39. 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
Study Skills
Plan
Classifieds
40. Cluster that involves providing education and training services; providing support services
Classifieds
Screen out
First impression
Education and Training
41. A special skill - knowledge - or ability that enables a person to perform a particular job
Entry-Level Jobs
Temporary Jobs
Qualification
Personality
42. Undertaking or venture to make more with risk
Part-Time Jobs
Enterprise
Self-Esteem
Attitude
43. A plan of action for education - training - and experience to reach a career goal
Information Technology
Law of Supply
Career Ladder
Goods
44. Cumulative time given to employees for personal or family illness with pay
Human Services
Interest Inventory
Technical
Sick Leave
45. A book used for researching the most common careers in the United States
GED certificate
OOH (Occupational Outlook Handbook)
Post-secondary education
Net pay
46. A person applying for a job
Payroll
Applicant
Values
Vocation
47. A thank you letter written following an interview
Temporary Jobs
Goods
Personnel
Follow-up Letter
48. The planning and using of time
Time Management
Entrepreneur
Job Shadowing
Wholesale
49. The tool that employers use to find out basic information about job applicants
Education and Training
Marketing Sales and Service
Application form
Volunteering
50. Focusing or concentrating in a particular skill
Job Shadowing
Evaluate
Payroll
Specializing