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

2. Using written or spoken words
Endurance
Verbal Ability
Perceptual Ability
Using systems

3. Show responsibility and effort
Basic Skills
Personal Qualities
Flexibility - Balance - and Coordination
Spatial Ability

4. Ability to learn how things fit together
Spatial Ability
Using systems
Thinking Skills
Quantitative Ability

5. Ability to retain thoughts - facts - and instructions
Interpersonal skills
Memory
Using systems
Flexibility - Balance - and Coordination

6. Ability to work well with others
Verbal Ability
Memory
Attentiveness
Interpersonal skills

7. Steady - flexible - and responsive hands with good vision
Endurance
Personal Qualities
Fine Manipulative Ability
Verbal Ability

8. How well you can see
Auditory and Speech Ability
Using systems
Idea Generation and Reasoning
Visual Ability

9. Combines good ear and pleasing voice
Spatial Ability
Endurance
Attentiveness
Auditory and Speech Ability

10. Ability to move body in different ways - one hand knows what the other is doing
Personal Qualities
Resource Management
Flexibility - Balance - and Coordination
Interpersonal skills

11. Ability to act on what you see
Flexibility - Balance - and Coordination
Auditory and Speech Ability
Perceptual Ability
Attentiveness

12. Ability to see meaning in numbers
Using information
Quantitative Ability
Memory
Idea Generation and Reasoning

13. Ability to use necessary information in getting the job done
Attentiveness
Flexibility - Balance - and Coordination
Using information
Endurance

14. Understanding how things are connected
Resource Management
Interpersonal skills
Quantitative Ability
Using systems

15. Ability to exert maximum muscle strength
Basic Skills
Using systems
Reaction time
Physical strength

16. Ability to handle resources - information - and time
Resource Management
Physical strength
Thinking Skills
Reaction time

17. Ability to keep functioning without breaks
Physical strength
Endurance
Basic Skills
Thinking Skills

18. Combination of creativity and practical thinking
Idea Generation and Reasoning
Basic Skills
Flexibility - Balance - and Coordination
Auditory and Speech Ability

19. Working with computers - machines - and systems
Attentiveness
Physical strength
Using technology
Reaction time

20. Able to make connections between ideas and information
Thinking Skills
Perceptual Ability
Fine Manipulative Ability
Memory

21. Movement of yourself and others - hand-eye coordination
Flexibility - Balance - and Coordination
Quantitative Ability
Control Movement
Attentiveness

22. Reading - writing - arithmetic
Resource Management
Perceptual Ability
Attentiveness
Basic Skills

23. Think fast - respond to situation in a quick manner
Reaction time
Idea Generation and Reasoning
Using systems
Using information