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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. Ability to act on what you see
Perceptual Ability
Using information
Basic Skills
Quantitative Ability

2. Ability to retain thoughts - facts - and instructions
Attentiveness
Perceptual Ability
Using information
Memory

3. Show responsibility and effort
Idea Generation and Reasoning
Memory
Visual Ability
Personal Qualities

4. Ability to work well with others
Perceptual Ability
Thinking Skills
Interpersonal skills
Flexibility - Balance - and Coordination

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

6. Working with computers - machines - and systems
Thinking Skills
Using systems
Physical strength
Using technology

7. Ability to see meaning in numbers
Visual Ability
Personal Qualities
Quantitative Ability
Interpersonal skills

8. Steady - flexible - and responsive hands with good vision
Control Movement
Using information
Flexibility - Balance - and Coordination
Fine Manipulative Ability

9. Ability to focus closely on task at hand regardless of surroundings
Attentiveness
Using information
Endurance
Interpersonal skills

10. Think fast - respond to situation in a quick manner
Attentiveness
Reaction time
Memory
Flexibility - Balance - and Coordination

11. Ability to exert maximum muscle strength
Physical strength
Verbal Ability
Flexibility - Balance - and Coordination
Using technology

12. Combines good ear and pleasing voice
Auditory and Speech Ability
Basic Skills
Perceptual Ability
Interpersonal skills

13. Ability to use necessary information in getting the job done
Perceptual Ability
Quantitative Ability
Attentiveness
Using information

14. Movement of yourself and others - hand-eye coordination
Control Movement
Auditory and Speech Ability
Attentiveness
Resource Management

15. Understanding how things are connected
Visual Ability
Endurance
Perceptual Ability
Using systems

16. Ability to keep functioning without breaks
Visual Ability
Verbal Ability
Auditory and Speech Ability
Endurance

17. How well you can see
Endurance
Personal Qualities
Visual Ability
Using systems

18. Using written or spoken words
Auditory and Speech Ability
Physical strength
Verbal Ability
Resource Management

19. Ability to move body in different ways - one hand knows what the other is doing
Idea Generation and Reasoning
Using information
Using systems
Flexibility - Balance - and Coordination

20. Ability to handle resources - information - and time
Quantitative Ability
Resource Management
Using technology
Memory

21. Combination of creativity and practical thinking
Idea Generation and Reasoning
Control Movement
Endurance
Using information

22. Reading - writing - arithmetic
Memory
Interpersonal skills
Basic Skills
Visual Ability

23. Ability to learn how things fit together
Perceptual Ability
Verbal Ability
Basic Skills
Spatial Ability