Test your basic knowledge |

Employability Skills Vocab

Instructions:

Answer 23 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
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. Ability to exert maximum muscle strength
Physical strength
Idea Generation and Reasoning
Basic Skills
Spatial Ability

2. Ability to keep functioning without breaks
Verbal Ability
Quantitative Ability
Physical strength
Endurance

3. Combines good ear and pleasing voice
Auditory and Speech Ability
Fine Manipulative Ability
Thinking Skills
Quantitative Ability

4. Understanding how things are connected
Verbal Ability
Using systems
Thinking Skills
Using information

5. Steady - flexible - and responsive hands with good vision
Verbal Ability
Thinking Skills
Basic Skills
Fine Manipulative Ability

6. Movement of yourself and others - hand-eye coordination
Attentiveness
Control Movement
Resource Management
Perceptual Ability

7. Using written or spoken words
Verbal Ability
Spatial Ability
Resource Management
Personal Qualities

8. Ability to act on what you see
Perceptual Ability
Endurance
Resource Management
Memory

9. Reading - writing - arithmetic
Visual Ability
Basic Skills
Endurance
Flexibility - Balance - and Coordination

10. Ability to use necessary information in getting the job done
Reaction time
Quantitative Ability
Using information
Control Movement

11. Ability to learn how things fit together
Memory
Using systems
Attentiveness
Spatial Ability

12. Ability to work well with others
Interpersonal skills
Idea Generation and Reasoning
Resource Management
Thinking Skills

13. Think fast - respond to situation in a quick manner
Perceptual Ability
Reaction time
Memory
Using information

14. Ability to focus closely on task at hand regardless of surroundings
Attentiveness
Verbal Ability
Control Movement
Using technology

15. How well you can see
Interpersonal skills
Fine Manipulative Ability
Flexibility - Balance - and Coordination
Visual Ability

16. Ability to retain thoughts - facts - and instructions
Fine Manipulative Ability
Memory
Using technology
Visual Ability

17. Working with computers - machines - and systems
Using technology
Verbal Ability
Resource Management
Flexibility - Balance - and Coordination

18. Ability to handle resources - information - and time
Attentiveness
Reaction time
Fine Manipulative Ability
Resource Management

19. Ability to move body in different ways - one hand knows what the other is doing
Flexibility - Balance - and Coordination
Reaction time
Attentiveness
Using systems

20. Ability to see meaning in numbers
Physical strength
Resource Management
Quantitative Ability
Attentiveness

21. Combination of creativity and practical thinking
Idea Generation and Reasoning
Attentiveness
Using technology
Interpersonal skills

22. Show responsibility and effort
Personal Qualities
Physical strength
Thinking Skills
Fine Manipulative Ability

23. Able to make connections between ideas and information
Personal Qualities
Thinking Skills
Flexibility - Balance - and Coordination
Endurance