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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. When a person has to give up part of something they value to resolve a conflict
Competition
Learning Style
Deduction
Values Compromise
2. A person's outlook on life - usually positive or negative
Education/Training Requirements
Research
Application form
Attitude
3. A personal evaluation to help you make decisions
Values
Entry-Level Jobs
Loss
Assessment
4. Following a person on the job to learn job duties and responsibilities
Ethnic
Persistent
Entrepreneur
Job Shadowing
5. A group of workers who collectively bargin for higher wages - improved benefits - and better working conditions
Reference
Union
Payroll
Procedure
6. The course of action one decides to take at the end of the decision-making process
Job Shadowing
Net pay
Personality Type
Plan
7. Acquaint or become familiar with a new situation
Help-wanted ads
Orientation
Resource
Volunteering
8. Pay that is based upon the percentage of sales
Applicant
Commission
Resume
Appearance
9. Possibility of loss
Work Environment
Contract Labor
Risk
Fringe benefits
10. Determining the best way for an individual to study - remember - or learn
Part-Time Jobs
Enterprise
Study Skills
Job
11. Standards one believes is important about their work
Interview
Finance
Work Values
Payroll
12. Cluster that involves services involving lodging - entertainment - recreation - and travel; food and beverage management
Sole Proprietorship
Hospitality and Tourism
Personality
Employment Outlook
13. A person who works with you
Free Enterprise System
Learning Style
Co-worker
Appearance
14. The personality or activity by which a person is known
Qualification
Identity
Career Action Plan
Salary Range
15. Any education or training following high school
Time Management
Partnership
Post-secondary education
Punctuality
16. Economic rules which influence consumer buying decisions
Post-secondary education
Laws of supply and demand
Job lead
Listening Skills
17. Commoney known as Social Security
Employment Agency
Check Stub
Interest Inventory
Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA)
18. The need for workers in a particular occupation or field
Business Management and Administration
Job Market
Check Stub
Self-Esteem
19. 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
Learning Style
Professional
Free Enterprise System
Job
20. An occupation one is well-suited or qualified for
Year-to-date earnings
Vocation
Services
Wholesale
21. The use of goods or service to make life easier creating new jobs while eliminating others
Technology
Specializing
Tuition
Credit
22. The work done over a period of years in one area of interest
Producer
Temporary Jobs
Job
Career
23. Any information about possible job openings
Profit
Self-Concept
Career Interest Area
Job lead
24. Receiving a paycheck every other Friday
Lifestyle
Architecture and Construction
Bi-Weekly Pay
Personality Trait
25. Collection of information about oneself
Economy
Career Portfolio
Elective
Classifieds
26. The surrounding physical conditions of a workplace
Goal
Assessment
Work Environment
Architecture and Construction
27. Worldwide financial management system
Technology
Self-Esteem
Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics
Global Economy
28. Money received for education that does not have to be repaid
Full-Time Job
Scholarships
Producer
Short-Term Goal
29. notices that employers put in the classified section of the paper describing their job openings
Listening Skills
Internet
Deduction
Help-wanted ads
30. A course that is required before another course can be taken
Consumer
Job Outlook
Demographics
Prerequisite
31. 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
Goal
Plan
Annual Leave
32. Cluster that involves computer and Web-based services; telecommunications services
Personality Type
Orientation
Information Technology
Assessment
33. Jobs that last for a limited period of time
Outsourcing
Interview
Personality
Temporary Jobs
34. A document stating that a person has passed a five-part test in the areas of writing - social studies - science - reading - and math
Specializing
Bachelor's degree
Punctuality
GED certificate
35. Cluster that involves developing - promoting - and providing goods to consumers; performing tasks for consumers
Annual Leave
Marketing Sales and Service
Stockholder
Government and Public Administration
36. The tool that employers use to find out basic information about job applicants
Application form
Gross pay
Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA)
Volunteering
37. Jobs or occupations grouped together because of similar knowledge or skills
Apprenticeship
Consumer
Demographics
Career cluster
38. Undertaking or venture to make more with risk
Self-Concept
Enterprise
Credit
Retailing
39. Extras provided by employers (other than wages)
Fringe benefits
Goods
Hospitality and Tourism
Conflict
40. Way in which one uses or utilitizes the brain best
Brain Orientation
Payroll
Transportation - Distribution - and Logistics
Corporation
41. Focusing or concentrating in a particular skill
Specializing
Information Technology
Values
Values Compromise
42. The instructional background and skills needed to qualify for employment
Long-Term Goal
Year-to-date earnings
Resource
Education/Training Requirements
43. The combination of attitude - values - interests - and behaviors that identify a person
First impression
Personality
Brain Orientation
Part-Time Jobs
44. To look at closely and judge
Risk
Short-Term Goal
Evaluate
Application form
45. Cluster that involves visual and performing arts; multimedia communications; journalism
Evaluate
Gross pay
Arts Audio-Video Technology and Communications
Specializing
46. A productive activity resulting in something useful
Profit
Employment Agency
Employer
Work
47. Earnings paid twice a month on designated dates
Employer
Semi-monthly Pay
Time Management
Personality
48. Cluster that involves protective and legal services
Job Outlook
Personality Trait
Post-secondary education
Law Public Safety and Security
49. Doing a job without pay to gain experience
Volunteering
Outsourcing
Values Compromise
Brain Orientation
50. Someone who creates a good or service
Producer
Career Interest Area
Loss
Persistent