Prep 1
Name______Period ______Date______
JOB SEEKING SKILLS
Terms on Employment Application
1. What is “specific position” for which you are applying?
a. the company you want to work for
b. the job you want to do
c. N/A
d. you leave it blank
2. What is “hours available” for which you are applying?
a. you put in “any”
b. you put in days even though you are going to school
c. you leave it blank
d. give yourself 3/4 hour to get there once being dismissed from school
Job Search Strategies
3. What is one need for a job search notebook?
a. To keep all the job applications in one place
b. To see how many places you can go to in one month
c. List your job values and lifestyle
d. Identify how you can help the company
4. What is the best reason to volunteer?
a. to pay a debt you owe
b. so you can make friends at work
c. to be able to list experience on a job application and resume
d. donate time, because you have nothing to do
Employment Agencies
5. Employment agencies specializes in
a. particular profession or field
b. giving people money to live on
c. getting you connected with Trade and Labor Unions
d. help you with memberships and magazine subsciptions
6. What is the main duty of a head hunter?
a. to find entry level staff
b. Identify senior management and executive level positions
c. To find people that left the job without notice
d. They are the talent scouts for sports
Want ads
7. How much will the messenger be paid per hour?
a. $40.00
b. $8.00
c. $16.00
d. $80.00
8. How many hours per week will the messenger work?
a. 2 hours
b. 5 hours
c. 10 hours
d. 14 hours
Yellow pages, help wanted
9. How does yellow pages list businesses?
a. by address
b. by subject
c. by phone number
d. by owner
10. Dave wants to call Dr. Keller for a dentist appointment
a. He looks in the white pages
b. He looks in the yellow pages
c. He looks in the blue pages.
d. He looks in the local government section
Direct applying
11. Which fact will be used to apply by letter?
a. graduated from high school
b. certificate received from athletics
c. make and license of her car
d. babysitting experience
12. If when you walk into a store and they don’t offer an application, what do you do?
a. ask for their business card
b. leave without one
c. ask politely “Id like to apply in case of any openings”
d. demand that they give you one immediately
Asking for an interview
13. When is the best time to ask for an interview?
a. ten minutes before a business closes
b. on a Friday afternoon
c. mid-morning
d. when there are lots of customers in the store
14. When you call the manager, what is the first polite thing to say?
a. Acknowledge that the hiring manager’s time is valuable
b. Thank them for reviewing your application
c. Ask if they made a decision yet
d. Do not call the hiring manager
Job aids
15. Why should you use a job aid?
a. to make sure spelling is correct
b. to remind you how much money you want to make
c. It is attached to your resume
d. you can fill it in after you drop off your application
16. What is contained in your job aid?
a. your high school grades
b. the telephone numbers of your references
c. your dates of attendance
d. your friend’s email addresses
Job search, career guidance counselors
17. Where would you find basic information on a company?
a. the Occupational Outlook Handbook
b. yellow pages of the telephone book
c. obituary section of the newspaper
d. Exploring Careers textbook
18. Which are you if you use linguistic intelligences?
a. word smart
b. music smart
c. nature smart
d. people smart
Parts of an application
19. Where do you find past employer’s name and address?
a. in the education part
b. in the personal part
c. in the work history part
d. in the work preference part
20. What do you put in the post secondary or graduate school part?
a. N/A
b. leave it blank
c. CPCC because that’s where you want to go
d. your high school name
How to handle optional/required info
21. If you do not have “prior job experience”, what do you put on the box?
a. “no employment history”
b. N/A in every single box
c. leave it blank
d. cross it out
22. What do you put in “salary required” box?
a. N/A
b. $20 an hour
c. $7.65
d. “negotiable”
Legibility and accuracy
23. What will the employer do if they can’t read your application?
a. ask you to come in for clarification
b. throw it away and go with next candidate
c. find someone who can read your writing
d. have you do it over again
24. What will the employer imply (assume) if you misspelled words on your application?
a. someone else wrote it out for you
b. spelling does not matter
c. you don’t care enough about his business to have someone check for errors
d. you were in a hurry to fill out the job application
Electronic submission
25. What should you do when sending your resume electronically?
a. you don’t have to do anything
b. follow up with a letter or telephone call
c. start researching the company
d. wait several days before looking for a job
JOB SEEKING SKILLS
ANSWER KEY
1. B
2. D
3. D
4. C
5. A
6. B
7. B
8. C
9. B
10. A
11. A
12. C
13. C
14. A
15. A
16. B
17. B
18. A
19. C
20. A
21. A
22. D
23. B
24. C
25. B