Preparing for College & Careers: Semester Exam Review

Performance tests, polygraph tests, or drug tests are

• required for job seekers without Social Security numbers
• sometimes used to test job applicants
• illegal and cannot be given to job applicants
• always written in slang

Getting along with people, the ability to communicate with your peers, solving problems, and being able to write well are all examples of

• interests
• goals
• tasks
• transferable skills

When a large bank contracts with a custodial service company to provide janitorial and light maintenance duties, it is called

• telecommuting
• outsourcing
• distributing the work
• diversifying the workforce

When workers use technology to work from home or an office center, they are 

• outsourcing
• collaborating
• telecommuting
• down-sizing

If you know how to learn and have excellent reasoning skills, you are said to have strong

• personal qualities
• thinking skills
• technology skills
• basic skills

Ron enjoys listening to music, going to the movies, and playing basketball in the backyard with his friends. These activities are considered Ron's

• skills
• interests
• transferable skills
• goals

Someone who choose to be an accountant, statistician, or finance manager probably prefers to work with

• things
• people
• values
• data

Someone who chooses to be an electrician, auto technician, or a chef probably prefers to work with

• things
• people
• values
• data

If you like having lots of friends, talking to people, and joining groups, you have a(n)

• kinesthetic learning style
• interpersonal learning style
• verbal/linguistic learning style
• naturalistic learning style

In choosing a career, you personal resources are defined as

• the amount of money you require to accept the job when hired
• whether or not you have transportation to and from work
• who you are and what you have to offer an employer
• your career decisiosn and goals