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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.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

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. Combines good ear and pleasing voice
Idea Generation and Reasoning
Reaction time
Resource Management
Auditory and Speech Ability

2. Think fast - respond to situation in a quick manner
Personal Qualities
Thinking Skills
Memory
Reaction time

3. Combination of creativity and practical thinking
Idea Generation and Reasoning
Basic Skills
Physical strength
Fine Manipulative Ability

4. Reading - writing - arithmetic
Memory
Control Movement
Basic Skills
Endurance

5. Working with computers - machines - and systems
Perceptual Ability
Reaction time
Using technology
Using systems

6. Ability to retain thoughts - facts - and instructions
Personal Qualities
Control Movement
Memory
Resource Management

7. Using written or spoken words
Physical strength
Endurance
Using systems
Verbal Ability

8. Show responsibility and effort
Attentiveness
Using systems
Interpersonal skills
Personal Qualities

9. Ability to exert maximum muscle strength
Interpersonal skills
Reaction time
Physical strength
Spatial Ability

10. Ability to keep functioning without breaks
Endurance
Using information
Spatial Ability
Reaction time

11. Ability to use necessary information in getting the job done
Endurance
Personal Qualities
Using information
Perceptual Ability

12. Ability to learn how things fit together
Spatial Ability
Verbal Ability
Physical strength
Auditory and Speech Ability

13. Understanding how things are connected
Using systems
Idea Generation and Reasoning
Using information
Spatial Ability

14. Ability to handle resources - information - and time
Idea Generation and Reasoning
Resource Management
Spatial Ability
Memory

15. Movement of yourself and others - hand-eye coordination
Control Movement
Idea Generation and Reasoning
Quantitative Ability
Basic Skills

16. How well you can see
Visual Ability
Using technology
Basic Skills
Flexibility - Balance - and Coordination

17. Steady - flexible - and responsive hands with good vision
Fine Manipulative Ability
Personal Qualities
Perceptual Ability
Reaction time

18. Ability to see meaning in numbers
Personal Qualities
Flexibility - Balance - and Coordination
Idea Generation and Reasoning
Quantitative Ability

19. Able to make connections between ideas and information
Physical strength
Using technology
Thinking Skills
Auditory and Speech Ability

20. Ability to act on what you see
Visual Ability
Flexibility - Balance - and Coordination
Using systems
Perceptual Ability

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

22. Ability to work well with others
Using information
Interpersonal skills
Reaction time
Attentiveness

23. Ability to focus closely on task at hand regardless of surroundings
Reaction time
Using technology
Attentiveness
Perceptual Ability