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A series of multiple-choice questions and answers related to career planning, covering topics such as soft skills, self-management, academic records, career assessments, and workplace skills. It provides insights into the importance of self-reflection, identifying strengths and interests, and developing a well-informed career plan.
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Paul has a job interview at the mall at 3:00. Because there was a huge accident on the road to the mall, Paul is stuck in traffic and cannot get to the interview in time. If Paul is prepared, he can solve this problem. What should he do? - Correct Answers ✅✅Call as soon as he knows he'll be late. He can explain the situation and ask to reschedule. Ariel is a busy young woman. She runs track, plays in the band, mentors a younger girl, has a full class load, and babysits her younger brother at nights when her mom is at work. In the midst of all of that, Ariel manages to keep a strong grade point average. What soft skill does Ariel have to use to make her busy schedule work? - Correct Answers ✅✅Time management When Mr. Jackson assigned a group project in biology class on Monday, he directed groups of four students to create and complete a complex experiment and develop a presentation, which they would give to the class on Friday. Choose from the options below to identify the three soft skills these students will most need to possess if they want to finish well and on time. - Correct Answers ✅✅dependability, teamwork, and time management If your family moves to a new town in the middle of the summer, when school starts everything will be new. You will have to adjust to a new schedule, a new set of rules and expectations, new students, and countless other new things. You will even have to make a new group of friends. With so many new and different things in your world, what
group of soft skills will be critical for you to use? - Correct Answers ✅✅adapting and persisting Soft skills are critical to workplace success. While you may use many different soft skills, most fall into three categories. Which of the following is not a category of workplace soft skills? - Correct Answers ✅✅Being Certified for the Job When you arrive at your after-school job at a local mini-mart, your boss tells you it has been a crazy day and that the store owner will be coming in later that evening. He wants the floors scrubbed, the shelves restocked, the sidewalk swept, the windows washed, the cashier's counter scrubbed, and the soda machine polished. You want to please him, but are not sure that you can get all of those things done in your three hour shift. Using soft skills as your guide, what is your response to him? - Correct Answers ✅✅"I understand how important this is Mr. Bossman, but if I can't get everything done before the end of my shift, what are your top priorities? Why is it particularly challenging to describe the skills you use and possess? - Correct Answers ✅✅You have to take time to think about how others might see you.
Why is it helpful to connect your skills and experiences to your personal history? - Correct Answers ✅✅Connections allow patterns that can focus your planning. A reflective profile acts as a tool to help you identify and understand your strengths, interests, skills, personality, and values. - Correct Answers ✅✅True A Mind Map is used to: - Correct Answers ✅✅Visualize and organize your thoughts Favorites - Correct Answers ✅✅The books, clubs, talents, abilities, and people, places and things you like most Hobbies - Correct Answers ✅✅Interests or activities done for pleasure; can be done at school, at home, with friends, or on your own Reflection - Correct Answers ✅✅Looking back and connecting thoughts, actions, and motives Job History - Correct Answers ✅✅Any work you have done, paid or unpaid, that builds experience
Which of the following describes extroverts? - Correct Answers ✅✅People who direct their energy and attention outside themselves and are often considered the life of the party. What are self-management skills? - Correct Answers ✅✅personal skills that help you learn how to take care of yourself and develop a growing independence. According to your lesson text, how does completing a self-reflective assessment like the Personal Profile prepare you for a career? - Correct Answers ✅✅By evaluating your past choices, you can make better choices for your future. Which of the following questions will help you discover your self- management skills? - Correct Answers ✅✅Can I think of more examples of times when I used this skill? True or False: Although introverts are often quiet and inward-focused, they are usually the ones who actually get things done. - Correct Answers ✅✅True Which of the following is a high school curriculum designed to equip students to compete for positions at highly selective colleges? - Correct Answers ✅✅Aggressive College Prep Curriclum
Why is reviewing and analyzing your transcript, curriculum, and GPA so important to career planning? - Correct Answers ✅✅Evaluating your overall coursework and grades can help you better consider your educational and career options. transcript - Correct Answers ✅✅This document is important because it contains a record of the courses you have taken, the grades you received curriculum - Correct Answers ✅✅This is the classes that comprise an entire course of study in school and can be described as either basic, basic college and career prep, or aggressive college prep. Basic curriculum - Correct Answers ✅✅meets a high school's graduation requirements and also the standards for admission to the military, most technical and two-year programs, and many jobs. GPA - Correct Answers ✅✅This is an indication of your academic achievement because it is an average of your grades True or False: The term "academic training" refers primarily to formal classes taken in school. - Correct Answers ✅✅False
A student who is evaluating his or her academic record will consider which three records? - Correct Answers ✅✅GPA, Test Scores, Transcripts True or False: Taking an assessment that has a long history of use, is well respected, and referenced by other credible sites helps ensure that you are taking a quality assessment. - Correct Answers ✅✅True True or False: he results of your assessments define a career you can follow for the rest of your life. - Correct Answers ✅✅False Skills and Abilities - Correct Answers ✅✅help you to identify your strengths and determine the kinds of skills you would most, or least enjoy using in a career. Values - Correct Answers ✅✅help you explore the kinds of environment you enjoy and the kind of work that you believe is important. Interests - Correct Answers ✅✅help connect your activities and interests to careers. Personality - Correct Answers ✅✅help to identify your personal qualities and characteristics as they relate to potential career options.
Which kind of assessment give you a very personal perspective but can only give you feedback based on your own knowledge and input? - Correct Answers ✅✅Reflective Assessment True or False: You will get a better assessment from a website that charges a fee than you would from a free assessment. - Correct Answers ✅✅False Workplace soft skills can be placed into which of the following three categories? - Correct Answers ✅✅Changing, Working with Others, Getting the Job Done Managing your time - Correct Answers ✅✅Knowing how to use the hours you have to get the most work done. Identifying objectives - Correct Answers ✅✅Successful workers know the target and how to reach it. Working independently - Correct Answers ✅✅you must be able to work without supervision or the prodding of others.
Prioritizing - Correct Answers ✅✅You must be able to identify what is most important and make sure important things get the attention they require True or False: To be successful in the workplace, you must be able to concentrate only on the things that matter to you. - Correct Answers ✅✅False What are workplace soft skills? - Correct Answers ✅✅interpersonal skills that help to determine how you get along with others. The workplace soft skills that equip you to accept and meet the challenges of change include: - Correct Answers ✅✅flexibility and adaptability Your academic record is important to career planning because ________________. - Correct Answers ✅✅past performance in your classes and exams can tell a lot about your interests, skills, and abilities. Choose two reasons why it is a good idea to take more than one career assessment. - Correct Answers ✅✅Analyzing and evaluating results from multiple assessments will help you build a well-researched, well- informed career plan.
Different assessments may point to different strengths, interests, and preferences allowing you to have a more complete picture of yourself. Values can be reflected in _________________. - Correct Answers ✅✅things you enjoy, take seriously, and see as important. True or False: To analyze your assessment results, examine the information, trying to discover or reveal something of importance. - Correct Answers ✅✅True Select the three ways that career assessments will benefit your career planning. - Correct Answers ✅✅They guide you as you explore careers that may be of interest to you. They help you draw connections between your interest, skill, and personality and your future career plans. The questions you answer in the assessments increases your self- awareness and help you identify your preferences. Why does budgeting your time contribute to career success? Choose the best answer. - Correct Answers ✅✅Budgeting your time now prepares you to budget time in a career setting, giving you the tools to meet work expectations.
What does it mean to "evaluate" your assessment results? - Correct Answers ✅✅Form an idea or conclusion to give new insights. Having strong soft skills helps you manage ________________. - Correct Answers ✅✅the personal challenges that go along with any job, relationship, or challenge. True or False: The term "workplace soft skills" describes skills you need to manage your own time and personal schedule. - Correct Answers ✅✅False Which of the following describes an introvert? - Correct Answers ✅✅People who direct their energy and attention inward. What best describes a system for learning workplace soft skills? - Correct Answers ✅✅Plan each day, plan each task, ask for help, treat others with respect. What can you learn from a self-analysis like the one you completed as you worked through your Personal Profile? - Correct Answers ✅✅You become aware of your strengths and weaknesses, improving your ability to make choices that are best for you.
Which of the following reflections demonstrate self-knowledge? - Correct Answers ✅✅I realize that if I am going to work while I am going to school that I will need to get better at managing and keeping track of time. I tend to get side tracked easily and forget to do my school work. college - Correct Answers ✅✅any education beyond high school The Personal Profile is a self-analysis tool that offers students the opportunity to: - Correct Answers ✅✅Learn more about their interests, skills, personality, values, and academic performance. Which are the most common options for taking career assessments? - Correct Answers ✅✅Self-reflective, online, career counselor directed How can your personality and values influence your future? Choose the best answer. - Correct Answers ✅✅They influence how I spend my time and what my future choices might be. Working with a team - Correct Answers ✅✅Members of a strong team are contributing and valuing their different ideas and abilities. Getting along: - Correct Answers ✅✅Getting along requires that you are a good listener, an effective speaker, and value opinions and ideas that are different than your own.
Recognizing the strengths of others - Correct Answers ✅✅In a successful workplace, workers depend on and learn from each other. Working through and solving problems: - Correct Answers ✅✅When you run into obstacles on the job, working with your team toward a common goal can build skills and strengths to see you through the next obstacle Being above reproach: - Correct Answers ✅✅When your good work ethic and integrity are visible, others are more likely to respect and want to support and work with you. Leading and following well: - Correct Answers ✅✅Good leaders and good followers demonstrate respect for others and help to keep the wheels of a team well oiled. Taking responsibility: - Correct Answers ✅✅In the same way, those with strong soft skills will identify the goal and push forward to reach it. Supervisors do not have to prod, bribe, beg, remind, and threaten those who take responsibility.
Doing your best: - Correct Answers ✅✅By always doing your best, you demonstrate that you value the work you do, the people who work with you, and the opportunity to work with and for others. Learning new skills: - Correct Answers ✅✅Strong learning skills make you a valuable team member now and ensure that you will continue to contribute well in the future. Bright Outlook - Correct Answers ✅✅Bright Outlook occupations are expected to grow rapidly in the next several years, will have large numbers of job openings, or are new and emerging occupations. (Bright Outlook jobs are indicated throughout ONET by yellow sunshine symbols.) Green Economy - Correct Answers ✅✅Green Economy occupations allow you to help preserve and protect the environment. Green occupations are linked to Green Economy Sectors. (Green Economy jobs are indicated throughout the ONET site by green leaf symbols.) Industry. - Correct Answers ✅✅Industries are broad groups of businesses or organizations with similar activities, products, or services. Occupations are considered part of an industry based on their employment.
Job Family - Correct Answers ✅✅Job Families are groups of occupations based upon work performed, skills, education, training, and credentials. Job Zones - Correct Answers ✅✅Job Zones group occupations into one of five categories based on the level of education or training needed to perform the occupation. Categories range from "No Preparation Needed" to "Extensive Preparation Needed." STEM Disciplines - Correct Answers ✅✅Stem Disciplines focus on occupations that require education in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines. Career Clusters - Correct Answers ✅✅Career Clusters include occupations in the same field of work that require similar skills. Students, parents, and educators use Career Clusters to help focus education plans toward obtaining the necessary knowledge, competencies, and training for success in a particular career pathway. Under this information heading, you might learn that a career requires you to be a good communicator and an active listener. - Correct Answers ✅✅Skills
On each career's information page, ONET groups information under several different headings. Which heading describes the day-to-day activities that would be part of a job? - Correct Answers ✅✅Tasks Which of the following phrases best describes ONET? - Correct Answers ✅✅A career exploration tool Under this information heading, you might learn that most people in a certain career have an associate's degree. - Correct Answers ✅✅Education The Finance Career Cluster would contain which set of careers? - Correct Answers ✅✅Credit Analysts, Tellers, Tax Preparers The Health Science cluster would include which set of careers? - Correct Answers ✅✅Clinical Data Managers, Chiropractors, Acute Care Nurses Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics - Correct Answers ✅✅Careers for thinkers, problem-solvers, and math lovers Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources. - Correct Answers ✅✅Careers that relate to animals, plants, and food production
Human Services - Correct Answers ✅✅Careers that relate to families and others' personal needs Manufacturing - Correct Answers ✅✅Careers involved with the production and maintenance of goods Select the best reason to use Career Clusters as a starting point for your career research. - Correct Answers ✅✅Career Clusters group careers with common knowledge and skills, making it easier to identify careers that interest you. Education and Training - Correct Answers ✅✅Careers for those who enjoy teaching others and are good at explaining concepts Government and Public Administration - Correct Answers ✅✅Any career in which the government is the employer Business, Management and Administration - Correct Answers ✅✅Any career important to the operating of a business Architecture and Construction - Correct Answers ✅✅Careers that relate to designing and making buildings
Identify the following as a Career Cluster or a career pathway: Health Science. - Correct Answers ✅✅Cluster Identify the following as a Career Cluster or career pathway: Design and Pre-Construction - Correct Answers ✅✅Pathway Identify the following as a Career Cluster or career pathway: Telecommunications - Correct Answers ✅✅Pathway Identify the following as a Career Cluster or career pathway: Marketing, Sales and Service - Correct Answers ✅✅Cluster What is a career pathway? - Correct Answers ✅✅A group of careers within a Career Cluster that share a more specific set of knowledge and skills. Jason learns that his career requires him to know about human anatomy. Where on his chart will he record this information? - Correct Answers ✅✅Knowledge Why is a table a good format for comparing careers that interest you? - Correct Answers ✅✅A table enables you to quickly see the differences and similarities between careers.
Link for Further Information - Correct Answers ✅✅A way to find out more about this career through the Occupational Outlook Handbook Skills - Correct Answers ✅✅The abilities I need to have for success in this career In which section of your comparison chart did you record any aspect of a certain career that interested you? - Correct Answers ✅✅Aspects of Interest Cheri discovers that her job requires medium preparation, including a bachelor's degree. Where on her chart will she record this information?
Looking for similarities and differences within my comparison tables will only make my decision making more confusing and difficult. - Correct Answers ✅✅False Using a rating process to evaluate your options is a good strategy for making decisions. - Correct Answers ✅✅True Through your ONET research, you have learned about the knowledge you need to succeed in a particular career. Which of the following statements best describes how you can use this research to determine if this career might suit you? - Correct Answers ✅✅If you already have some of the knowledge for that career and would enjoy learning the rest, you should consider this career a possibility. According to ONET, a career as a barber requires the following skills: active listening, speaking, monitoring, social perceptiveness, and service orientation. Based on skills, which of the following students is most likely to succeed as a barber? - Correct Answers ✅✅Sophie, who started a student support hot line for students in crisis Shawn wants to learn how the promotion process works for an electrical engineer. Which Occupational Outlook Handbook section will he want to look at? - Correct Answers ✅✅Training, Other Qualifications, and Advancement
True or False: The Occupational Outlook Handbook is part of the website for the United States Department of Labor. - Correct Answers ✅✅True Which of the following information can be found in the Training, Other Qualifications, and Advancement section in the Occupational Outlook Handbook? Choose all that apply. - Correct Answers ✅✅Options for education and training Education requirements Certification requirements Which Occupational Outlook Handbook section is similar to ONET's Bright Outlook information? - Correct Answers ✅✅Job Outlook True or False. The Occupational Outlook Handbook is better than ONET for helping you make career decisions. - Correct Answers ✅✅False I can more easily decide which career I might enjoy if I compare my skills to those required for success in each career. - Correct Answers ✅✅True Identify the following as a career cluster or career pathway.Information Technology - Correct Answers ✅✅Cluster
The Information Technology cluster would contain which set of careers? - Correct Answers ✅✅Computer Support Specialists, Web Developers, Computer Programmers True or False: O*NET contains much more detailed information about earnings than the OCO Handbook does. - Correct Answers ✅✅False Which section of a career's Occupational Outlook Handbook page will give you information about what sets that career apart from others? - Correct Answers ✅✅Significant Points Sam wants to know if he is likely to easily find employment as a carpenter. Which OCO Handbook section will he want to look at? - Correct Answers ✅✅Job Outlook Identify the following as a career cluster or career pathway. Engineering and Technology. - Correct Answers ✅✅Pathway Identify the following as a Career Cluster or a career pathway. Security and Protective Services - Correct Answers ✅✅Pathway
Lynda wants to learn about the benefits she could get as a nurse practitioner. Which section will she want to look at? - Correct Answers ✅✅Earnings Transportation, Distribution, and Logistics - Correct Answers ✅✅Careers that help both people and goods arrive at their destination Hospitality and Tourism - Correct Answers ✅✅Careers centered on others' recreation Arts, Audio/ Video Technology and Communications. - Correct Answers ✅✅Careers that use words, artwork, graphics, or video to get a message across Information Technology - Correct Answers ✅✅Careers involving computers and digital information Finance - Correct Answers ✅✅Careers that focus on money and investments Marketing, Sales, and Service - Correct Answers ✅✅Careers that deal with selling products
Law, Public Safety, Corrections and Security - Correct Answers ✅✅Careers that help keep people and their homes and possessions safe As Alex looks at his Comparison Chart #1, he can tell that he has a lot of information to learn before he can be successful in either of his careers. However, he has many more of the abilities and personal qualities needed for his first career than for his second one. Therefore, he is becoming more interested in the first career. What two sections of his chart has he looked at as part of this decision process? - Correct Answers ✅✅Knowledge and Skills True or False: The Occupational Outlook Handbook is possibly the most complete career information resource available. - Correct Answers ✅✅True Identify the following as a Career Cluster or a career pathway.Health Science - Correct Answers ✅✅Cluster The Architecture and Construction cluster would contain which set of careers? - Correct Answers ✅✅Carpet Installers, Cost Estimators, Interior Designers True or False: Your "cost of living" is the amount of money you need for housing and utilities. - Correct Answers ✅✅False
Which of the following will change depending on your geographical region? - Correct Answers ✅✅Cost of Living True or False: The Reality Check tool lets you find occupations that match your lifestyle preferences. - Correct Answers ✅✅True Which of the following is most likely to result in satisfaction with your career? - Correct Answers ✅✅Having an income that supports your preferred lifestyle Which of the following would be considered a lifestyle preference? Choose all that apply. - Correct Answers ✅✅Clothes Housing Entertainment Plan for your career - Correct Answers ✅✅Your career plan includes the foundation, research, and training that gives direction and meaning to futures career changes Stay informed - Correct Answers ✅✅By being aware of the changes around you, you can make decisions that move you toward, instead of away from, ongoing career success.
Develop new skills - Correct Answers ✅✅By continuing to seek experience, training, or formal education, you will position yourself to adapt to new requirements, accept new challenges, and enter new fields of interest. economy - Correct Answers ✅✅system of buying, selling, financing, and funding Culture - Correct Answers ✅✅the human side of change and is really about the priorities, preferences, and shared values What is defined as "a system of buying, selling, financing, and funding"?