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100

Take drivers ed, obtain your leaners permit, practice for the required hours, & pass the drivers test.

What are the steps to obtain your drivers license?

100

This is a structured conversation where one person (the interviewer) asks questions to another person (the interviewee) to gather information, evaluate qualifications, or assess suitability for a specific purpose

What is an Interview?

100

Columbia College, City Colleges of Chicago, Illinois Institute of Technology, School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

What are colleges in Chicago?

100

Tell me 3 tasks a waiter may need to perform when working. 

Set the table, take orders, carry food, clean up, walk customers to their tables

100

This is a set amount of money you give to the bank or property owner every month.

What is rent/mortgage?

100

This is the only planet in our solar system to rotate clockwise on its axis?

What is venus?

200

This is another form of financial account separate from Debit & Credit Accounts.

What is a credit union?

200

Neat hair. Clean cloths, nice pants with collared shirt and clean shoes most likely hard bottom or heels.

What are some things you may wear to a job interview?

200

This person serves as a bridge between local residents and the city government, listening to community concerns and advocating for their specific district or ward

What is an Alderman/Alderwoman/Council Member?

200

In an email greeting or professional setting, "CC" stands for this term, indicating someone is receiving a copy of the message.

What is a carbon copy?

200

You should never use this liquid to extinguish a grease fire in a pan

What is water?

200

This occasion corresponds with the longest day of the year.

What is the summer solstice?

300

HMO, PPO, POS, EPO, etc. 

What are the different types of Health-Insurance Plans?

300

the ongoing process of learning, training, and building new skills and knowledge to advance your career, improve job performance, and adapt to changing industry trends

What is Professional Development?

300

This is a unified body of individuals, a group of people living in the same local area, or a collection of people connected by shared interests, values, culture, or digital space

What is a community?

300

This specialist gives instructions to aircraft pilots by radio. 

What is an Air Traffic Controller?

300

Name 3 types of bills you may need to pay when you have your own place. 

Rent, cable, internet, phone, electricity, gas, water, garbage, phone, etc. 

300

This is the only food that can never go bad.

What is honey?

400

Tracking monthly income, tuition, rent, and discretionary spending using digital apps or spreadsheets

What is a budget?

400

This is the form that you should bring to interviews that shows all your job experience, education etc.

What is a Resume?

400

This sitcom started in 2009 and had actors such as Childish Gambino and Joel McHale.

What is the tv show "community"?

400

This person counts money, cash checks, receive deposits, make money orders, open accounts, account transactions, process transfers, loan payments etc.

What is a bank teller?

400

This is the term for the brief, 30-to-60-second summary used to pitch yourself or an idea to a potential employer or connection

What is an Elevator Pitch?

400

By U.S. law, exit signs must be one of what two colors.

What is green or red?

500

This is a three-digit number that predicts your likelihood of paying back borrowed money on time. 

What is a credit score?

500

These are people you put on your resume that employers can call to learn about your work history.

What are References?

500

This is a non-emergency telephone number and digital service used to reach local government agencies for community information, city services, and neighborhood problem reports without tying up 911 emergency line 

What is 311?

500

This person designs houses, bridges, machines but also could work with biology and chemistry as well.  

What is an engineer?

500

This means that a specific source of income, a transaction, an individual, or an organization is free from paying certain taxes at the local, state, or federal level

What is going tax exempt?

500

One has only undergraduate programs while the other has undergraduate, Masters, Doctoral, Professional, Etc.

What is the difference between Colleges & Universities?