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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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1. When two or more companies rival for consumer dollars
Business Plan
Vocation
Study Skills
Competition
2. The environment of the workplace
Working Conditions
Demographics
Transportation - Distribution - and Logistics
Profit
3. Money earned above the cost of doing business
Law of Supply
Help-wanted ads
Profit
Wage
4. First thing an interviewer notices: an applicant's dress - hair - and grooming
Punctuality
Temporary Jobs
Interview
Appearance
5. The planning and using of time
Deduction
Salary
Risk
Time Management
6. Earnings paid twice a month on designated dates
Reference
Full-Time Job
Semi-monthly Pay
Personality
7. Pay that is based upon the percentage of sales
Application form
Law of Supply
Commission
Discrimination
8. 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
Free Enterprise System
Brain Orientation
Reference
Schedule
9. An action or series of actions determined by an employer for a specific process
Risk
Career Ladder
Procedure
Job Shadowing
10. The future prospects for employment in a particular job or field
Job Outlook
Personality
Classifieds
Global Economy
11. Cluster that involves developing - promoting - and providing goods to consumers; performing tasks for consumers
Economy
Marketing Sales and Service
Orientation
Internship
12. Time an employee may take off work with pay
Applicant
Screen out
Sole Proprietorship
Annual Leave
13. A specialized scientific work in manufacturing and industry
Procedure
Prerequisite
Health Science
Technical
14. A certificate of completion awarded to a person after completing a program of study in a particular area - usually lasting 2 years
Resource
Fee
Associate degree
Procrastinator
15. Money accounted for from January 1st through the current pay period
Year-to-date earnings
Professional
Credit
Screen out
16. Arrange things in order from the most important to the least important
Decision
Salary
Priortize
Employment Agency
17. A person who organizes - manages - and assumes the risk of a business
Arts Audio-Video Technology and Communications
Identity
Entrepreneur
Law of Demand
18. The jobs that beginners start with to train them for higher-level jobs
Wage
Entry-Level Jobs
Free Enterprise System
Goal
19. Cluster that involves planning - organizing - and directing business operations
Corporation
Business Management and Administration
Prerequisite
Self-Concept
20. Cluster that involves services that improve people's quality of life and promote safe - healthy communities
Human Services
Enterprise
Seasonal Work
Annual Leave
21. Any education or training following high school
Post-secondary education
Check Stub
Schedule
Net pay
22. 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
Stock
Job Outlook
Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics
Stockholder
23. A program of study beyond a bachelor's degree
Salary Range
Occupation
Graduate school
Resource
24. A person who will give a favorable report of a job applicant to the employer
Decision-Making Process
Semi-monthly Pay
Law of Demand
Reference
25. The surrounding physical conditions of a workplace
Work Environment
Listening Skills
Loss
Decision-Making Process
26. Agreement to complete a job for an amount of money
Contract Labor
Personality
Scholarships
Salary
27. Cluster that involves protective and legal services
Procrastinator
Law Public Safety and Security
Career cluster
Career Action Plan
28. As the prices decreases producers purchase more
Sick Leave
Health Science
Law of Demand
Consumer
29. A resource that involves communicating information with others
Services
Networking
Government and Public Administration
Long-Term Goal
30. The course of action one decides to take at the end of the decision-making process
Global Economy
Plan
Services
Conflict
31. A plan which includes the education and training requirements to reach a career goal
Skill
Related Occupations
Occupation
Career Action Plan
32. Extras provided by employers (other than wages)
Evaluate
Fringe benefits
Employment Outlook
Risk
33. A program where a person learns to do a certain job by working with a skilled worker
Apprenticeship
Career Interest Area
Letter of Application
Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA)
34. The work done over a period of years in one area of interest
Career
Job Market
Vocation
Resource
35. The person who has hires someone to do a job
Employer
Resume
Post-secondary education
Job Shadowing
36. The steps one takes to make the best decision
Job Market
Employment Agency
Decision-Making Process
Workforce diversity
37. The combination of attitude - values - interests - and behaviors that identify a person
Health Science
Identity
Global Economy
Personality
38. Business owned by many people but treated by the law as though it were one person
Part-Time Jobs
Compromise
Corporation
O*Net
39. The thing a person enjoys doing or thinking about
Interest
ArkOscar
Long-Term Goal
Job Outlook
40. A group of workers who collectively bargin for higher wages - improved benefits - and better working conditions
Union
Job Market
Bachelor's degree
Law Public Safety and Security
41. one who puts off doing things or making decisions
Consumer
Procrastinator
Work Environment
Brain Orientation
42. Clash of ideas or values
Conflict
Goods
Consumer
Temporary Jobs
43. An assessment that helps people identify their interest areas
Contract Labor
Partnership
Base Pay
Interest Inventory
44. The ability or potential for learning new skills
Work Values
Short-Term Goal
O*Net
Aptitude
45. Business owned by one person
Health Science
Sole Proprietorship
Learning Style
Occupation
46. A group of employees
Goods
Career Goal
Base Pay
Personnel
47. An introductory letter written to a prospective employer
Listening
Internet
Transportation - Distribution - and Logistics
Letter of Application
48. A personal evaluation to help you make decisions
Resume
Assessment
Skill
Demographics
49. Standard minimum pay received by an employee
Career
Base Pay
Long-Term Goal
GED certificate
50. A group of characteristics that collective form a general group of people with similiar interests - values - and behaviors
Job Duty
Stockholder
Personality Type
First impression