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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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1. Reading - writing - arithmetic
Flexibility - Balance - and Coordination
Basic Skills
Using information
Physical strength

2. Combination of creativity and practical thinking
Personal Qualities
Thinking Skills
Physical strength
Idea Generation and Reasoning

3. Ability to exert maximum muscle strength
Quantitative Ability
Physical strength
Flexibility - Balance - and Coordination
Interpersonal skills

4. Ability to retain thoughts - facts - and instructions
Reaction time
Memory
Perceptual Ability
Using technology

5. Combines good ear and pleasing voice
Idea Generation and Reasoning
Auditory and Speech Ability
Visual Ability
Personal Qualities

6. Using written or spoken words
Using information
Quantitative Ability
Idea Generation and Reasoning
Verbal Ability

7. Ability to act on what you see
Control Movement
Spatial Ability
Resource Management
Perceptual Ability

8. Ability to see meaning in numbers
Using information
Quantitative Ability
Fine Manipulative Ability
Perceptual Ability

9. Able to make connections between ideas and information
Idea Generation and Reasoning
Thinking Skills
Visual Ability
Using information

10. Ability to move body in different ways - one hand knows what the other is doing
Verbal Ability
Reaction time
Auditory and Speech Ability
Flexibility - Balance - and Coordination

11. Show responsibility and effort
Personal Qualities
Auditory and Speech Ability
Memory
Visual Ability

12. How well you can see
Using systems
Basic Skills
Visual Ability
Idea Generation and Reasoning

13. Ability to keep functioning without breaks
Attentiveness
Endurance
Visual Ability
Perceptual Ability

14. Ability to handle resources - information - and time
Endurance
Personal Qualities
Control Movement
Resource Management

15. Understanding how things are connected
Attentiveness
Using information
Using systems
Interpersonal skills

16. Ability to work well with others
Control Movement
Interpersonal skills
Auditory and Speech Ability
Spatial Ability

17. Ability to focus closely on task at hand regardless of surroundings
Quantitative Ability
Idea Generation and Reasoning
Visual Ability
Attentiveness

18. Movement of yourself and others - hand-eye coordination
Control Movement
Resource Management
Verbal Ability
Idea Generation and Reasoning

19. Think fast - respond to situation in a quick manner
Quantitative Ability
Reaction time
Flexibility - Balance - and Coordination
Thinking Skills

20. Ability to use necessary information in getting the job done
Using information
Thinking Skills
Interpersonal skills
Basic Skills

21. Steady - flexible - and responsive hands with good vision
Using systems
Fine Manipulative Ability
Reaction time
Control Movement

22. Working with computers - machines - and systems
Using technology
Interpersonal skills
Spatial Ability
Auditory and Speech Ability

23. Ability to learn how things fit together
Using systems
Idea Generation and Reasoning
Flexibility - Balance - and Coordination
Spatial Ability