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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. Ability to see meaning in numbers
Quantitative Ability
Interpersonal skills
Flexibility - Balance - and Coordination
Memory

2. Ability to exert maximum muscle strength
Physical strength
Reaction time
Resource Management
Thinking Skills

3. Able to make connections between ideas and information
Verbal Ability
Thinking Skills
Reaction time
Using technology

4. Ability to focus closely on task at hand regardless of surroundings
Attentiveness
Spatial Ability
Resource Management
Control Movement

5. Ability to retain thoughts - facts - and instructions
Auditory and Speech Ability
Idea Generation and Reasoning
Interpersonal skills
Memory

6. Ability to use necessary information in getting the job done
Flexibility - Balance - and Coordination
Auditory and Speech Ability
Using systems
Using information

7. Ability to act on what you see
Perceptual Ability
Reaction time
Verbal Ability
Quantitative Ability

8. Working with computers - machines - and systems
Resource Management
Flexibility - Balance - and Coordination
Endurance
Using technology

9. Ability to handle resources - information - and time
Auditory and Speech Ability
Attentiveness
Using technology
Resource Management

10. Reading - writing - arithmetic
Resource Management
Basic Skills
Using information
Memory

11. Steady - flexible - and responsive hands with good vision
Visual Ability
Fine Manipulative Ability
Memory
Resource Management

12. Ability to work well with others
Interpersonal skills
Resource Management
Basic Skills
Using systems

13. Using written or spoken words
Resource Management
Thinking Skills
Reaction time
Verbal Ability

14. Understanding how things are connected
Memory
Visual Ability
Using systems
Thinking Skills

15. Ability to keep functioning without breaks
Using systems
Auditory and Speech Ability
Endurance
Spatial Ability

16. Movement of yourself and others - hand-eye coordination
Control Movement
Thinking Skills
Using systems
Attentiveness

17. Show responsibility and effort
Personal Qualities
Memory
Perceptual Ability
Auditory and Speech Ability

18. Combination of creativity and practical thinking
Auditory and Speech Ability
Thinking Skills
Interpersonal skills
Idea Generation and Reasoning

19. Ability to learn how things fit together
Spatial Ability
Visual Ability
Quantitative Ability
Personal Qualities

20. Ability to move body in different ways - one hand knows what the other is doing
Visual Ability
Using technology
Basic Skills
Flexibility - Balance - and Coordination

21. Think fast - respond to situation in a quick manner
Memory
Using systems
Reaction time
Quantitative Ability

22. Combines good ear and pleasing voice
Resource Management
Auditory and Speech Ability
Using information
Reaction time

23. How well you can see
Reaction time
Control Movement
Visual Ability
Perceptual Ability