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Employability Skills Vocab

Instructions:

Answer 23 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. Reading - writing - arithmetic
Personal Qualities
Endurance
Basic Skills
Visual Ability

2. Ability to focus closely on task at hand regardless of surroundings
Attentiveness
Perceptual Ability
Using technology
Physical strength

3. Ability to retain thoughts - facts - and instructions
Memory
Interpersonal skills
Using technology
Thinking Skills

4. Ability to keep functioning without breaks
Attentiveness
Endurance
Spatial Ability
Visual Ability

5. Able to make connections between ideas and information
Fine Manipulative Ability
Thinking Skills
Using systems
Physical strength

6. Ability to act on what you see
Personal Qualities
Perceptual Ability
Basic Skills
Resource Management

7. Working with computers - machines - and systems
Verbal Ability
Using technology
Visual Ability
Flexibility - Balance - and Coordination

8. Ability to use necessary information in getting the job done
Using information
Memory
Verbal Ability
Using technology

9. Think fast - respond to situation in a quick manner
Flexibility - Balance - and Coordination
Fine Manipulative Ability
Reaction time
Memory

10. Movement of yourself and others - hand-eye coordination
Perceptual Ability
Memory
Basic Skills
Control Movement

11. Ability to move body in different ways - one hand knows what the other is doing
Personal Qualities
Flexibility - Balance - and Coordination
Control Movement
Using technology

12. Ability to work well with others
Quantitative Ability
Visual Ability
Interpersonal skills
Attentiveness

13. Ability to handle resources - information - and time
Resource Management
Basic Skills
Thinking Skills
Flexibility - Balance - and Coordination

14. Ability to exert maximum muscle strength
Physical strength
Attentiveness
Idea Generation and Reasoning
Verbal Ability

15. Ability to learn how things fit together
Endurance
Perceptual Ability
Flexibility - Balance - and Coordination
Spatial Ability

16. Combines good ear and pleasing voice
Memory
Auditory and Speech Ability
Spatial Ability
Endurance

17. Combination of creativity and practical thinking
Personal Qualities
Control Movement
Memory
Idea Generation and Reasoning

18. Using written or spoken words
Memory
Personal Qualities
Verbal Ability
Perceptual Ability

19. Understanding how things are connected
Endurance
Fine Manipulative Ability
Using systems
Spatial Ability

20. Show responsibility and effort
Using systems
Visual Ability
Attentiveness
Personal Qualities

21. Ability to see meaning in numbers
Quantitative Ability
Memory
Reaction time
Endurance

22. Steady - flexible - and responsive hands with good vision
Memory
Endurance
Fine Manipulative Ability
Using information

23. How well you can see
Using systems
Visual Ability
Spatial Ability
Attentiveness