Search for these in the newspaper or online to learn about current job openings.
What are classified ads?
100
Paper-based, company website online, and email.
What are the types of job applications?
100
Use this as a starting point for creating your own resume. Add your information and then tweak and edit it to personalize your resume, so it highlights your skills and abilities.
What is a resume template?
100
Try to arrive about 15 minutes before the interview in case you are not familiar with where to park, enter the building, who you should meet with, etc. Don't be late!
What is the best time to arrive for an interview?
100
$7.25 per hour
What is the current minimum wage pay rate?
200
Job listings from many job sites, including job boards, company websites, associations, and other sources of online job listings.
What are job search engines?
200
Blanks, misspelled words, white out, scribbled out responses, forgetting to sign and date, words like "quit" or "fired".
What are things to avoid on a job application?
200
These people should be able to vouch for your skills, abilities, and qualifications.
What are job references?
200
Gum, cell phone, mp3 player or other electronic game devices, coffee or soda.
What are things that you should not bring to an interview?
200
These laws prohibit specific types of job discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origion, or gender in certain workplaces.
What are Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) laws?
300
The education, work experience, and other abilities required for a job.
What is a qualification?
300
A phone call to check in on the status of your application. This should be completed no later than one week after submitting an application.
What is a job follow-up call?
300
The length of a typical job resume.
What is 1 page, no more than 2?
300
Khaki or dress pants, sweater, long-sleeved button down shirt, polo shirt, belt, leather shoes, tie (optional).
What is business casual attire?
300
Employees covered by the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) must receive this type of pay for hours worked in excess of 40 in a workweek of at least one and one-half times their regular rates of pay.
What is overtime pay?
400
Searching for a job by building relationships and connecting with people you know to find job opportunities.
What is job networking?
400
This type of information is collected from each applicant including name, address, phone number, level of education, certificates/training, interests/skills, etc.
What is personal data?
400
A document sent with your resume to provide additional information on your skills and experience. This also explains the reasons for your interest in the job.
What is a cover letter?
400
The best way to reduce interview stress is to be prepared. Take time to review common interview questions you will most likely be asked and practice your responses with a friend, staff, or family member.
What is mock interviewing?
400
Programs which provide wage replacement benefits, medical treatment, vocational rehabilitation, and other benefits to workers who are injured at work or acquire an occupational disease.
What is worker's compensation?
500
This job resource is located in almost every county of Pennsylvania. It is a joint project between multiple agencies to provide career services to employers and employees.
What is CareerLink?
500
Misdemeanor or felony offenses as an adult. If you had legal issues as a minor (under age 18), you were adjudicated. This question can cause confusion on applications.
What is a conviction?
500
Name at least four components of a job resume.
What are personal information, objective, education, special skills/training, work experience, interests/hobbies, volunteer work, certifications?
500
Don't make this common mistake! It's sometimes a smaller world than you think and you don't know who your interviewer might know. When interviewing for a job, you want your employer to know that you can work well with other people and handle conflicts in a mature and effective way.
What is badmouthing a former employer?
500
This law protects individuals with disabilities from discrimination in the work place.
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)?