Employability skills

You have been working on a game design project with your manager who has been repeatedly using inappropriate language which makes you uncomfortable. What should you do?

Ask the manager to stop speaking in such an inappropriate way.

Which of the following doesn't belong in a portfolio?

pictures of your vacation

A question raised for inquiry, consideration, or solution is called a ________________.

problem

Which of the following journals is a publication directly related to a profession?

professional

When applying for a job, the first step is to complete

job application

Part of being a civically responsible employee is understanding how the U.S. government operates. the job of the Legislative Branch of the government is to ________ laws.

make

Lois earns $11 per hour as a personal caregiver. Her employer must pay her time and a half (1.5 times her regular rate of pay) for every hour over 40 hours per week and withholds 18% of her gross pay for various taxes and deductions. Lois logged the following times: Sunday: 8.75hrs, Tuesday: 9hrs, Wednesday: 9.5hrs, Thursday: 11hrs, Saturday: 10.5hrs. What will Lois' net pay be?

$479.19

Informational technology changes DRAMATICALLY every

18 months

You are working at a graphic design firm. Your team is working on an important project and your team leader asks you to stay late to meet a deadline. Since you normally get off at 5pm from work, you previously agreed to take your neighbor to an important appointment at 6:30pm. What should you do?

Contact a friend who knows your neighbor and see if your friend can take your neighbor to the appointment and stay to finish the project deadline.

An individual who works well with all customers and coworkers has

Diversity Awareness

This term best describes rules of behavior based on ideas about what is morally good and bad.

Ethics

Ina business or office setting, the BEST greeting when answering the telephone is

Good morning or Good afternoon

Motivating factors can be:

Internal or External

You work at an accounting company and are furnished with a new tablet computer. After arriving to work, you turn it on and notice it is not functioning properly. This occurs after one day of using the new tablet. What is the first course of action?

Look for the operating manual to figure out what is wrong

Two employees working at a manufacturing company enter a shop floor to do work. One employee is wearing approved safety glasses, but the other employee is not. Why should both employees wear safety glasses?

Safety glasses should always be worn on the shop floor.

Which of the following statements about reading skills is true?

Skimming is reading quickly through a book or document to pick out key points.

A person's principles or standards of behavior; one's judgement of what is important in life.

Values

Maxwell has been asked to send a housing inventory report to a branch manager in a local real estate company. Which of the following applications/ formats is most appropriate to use to accomplish the task?

excel

_______ is a prewriting strategy that helps you get your ideas flowing and consists of writing everything that comes to mind about a topic, in any order.

free writing

What is the most important reason for cleaning the cache of your web browser after browsing the internet?

to optimize browsing speed

The word "critical" means:

use one's mind to produce thoughts of, relating to, or being a turning point or specially important juncture

The amount of income tax that is withheld from a person's payroll check is based on the info provided on the

w-4 form