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Job Application Skills Quiz

Test your knowledge on essential job application skills with our engaging quiz! Designed for students and job seekers alike, this quiz covers important topics such as resumes, cover letters, and interview techniques.

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1) One of the following is regarded as the most important strategy to follow:

Newspapers

Networking

Campus placement office

Resume databases

2) Professional epmloyment agencies can sometimes charge a stiff fee, which is usually taken in the form of:

Percentage of your annual salary

Percentage of your monthly salary

Percentage of your first year's salary only

Free charge

3) you need to prepare your resume within a reasonable amount of time before graduating,, specify this amount of time:

Six months before graduating

Three months before graduating

A month before graduating

This is a wrong information it should be prepared after graduating

4) all of the following are characteristics that should be displayed in a resume except for ONE:

Honestly

Currency

Relevance

Exaggerating information

5) all of the following should be excluded from a resume except for ONE:

Salary demands

Social security number

Contact information

Height

6) one of the following is considered the first thing that a prospective employer reads:

Career objective

Contact information

Credentials

Skills and achievments

7) all of these sentences are correct regarding education in CV's except for ONE:

Avoid vague titles

Concentrate on describing skills you've learned from courses

Don't list military schools or major training programs

Begin with your most recent education first

8) all of the following are correct regarding refrences except for ONE:

Your refrences need to be well known in the community

You can't list your portofolio to be reviewed in this section

You need to obtain your refrences permissions

You can provide it on request

9) one of the following is the traditional way to organize a resume :

By skills area

By function

Chronologically with most recent listed first

Chronologically with most old listed first

10) choose the category that's considered suitable to be included in a skill-area organized resume :

Education

Management

Experience

University majors

11) all of the following are indivisuals that will benefit from organizing their resumes by function or skill rather than chronologically except FOR:

Fresh graduates

People who are change positions

Ex-military personnels

People who have changed their jobs frequently

12) every CV should be prefaced by a cover letter or e-mail which is important for the following reason:

Generlizes your job search

Highlights the applicant's value

Shows an interest in the job

A+C

13) all of the following are correct regarding follow-up letters except for ONE :

It reminds the reader you're interested

It allows you to highlight additional reasons of your superiority to other applicants

They should be long

It's regarded as a thankful message for the employer.

17) calling to ask for openings shows more interest than visiting the human recourses department when searching for a job :

False

True

21) One of the following is considered a part of the communication process model?

Channel

Letters

Post office

Programming

24) one of the following is a communication principle?

Gaps

A part of the message is who sends it

Loss of emotional control

Gossip

25) acknowledging feedback ... Ask for feedback and considering it are tips that should be remembered when?

Receiving feedback

sending feedback

Not asking for feedback

None of the above

26) The ideal model of problem solving includes?

identify the problem

Define the problem

Examine the options

all of the above

28) which particular skills are needed will differ, depending on your role in organization without the problem

True

False

29) barriers to problem solving are all of the following except?

Persistence

Failure to recognize the problem

Making a hasty choice

Failure to consider all consequences

31) Stages to solve a problem in the right sequence are like ?

Evaluate the problem, gather information, break the problem into parts, identify solutions

Take action, select the best solution,examine results

Gather information, break the problem into parts, evaluate the problem

Test and review, examine results, take action, identify the problem

32) Decision making can be defined as: the process of making choices among impossible alternatives ?

True

False

33) The purpose of Brainstorming is to produce as many possible options as possible without evaluating them?

True

False

38) One of the following is a barrier to listening ?

Remove distractions

Hearing what we want to hear

Attending skills

Try not to be defensive

39) The mixed signals can force the sender to choose between verbal and non-verbal parts of the message ?

True

False

40) It is possible to improve your questioning skills by becoming aware of the different types of questions that can be asked ?

True

False

42) "There should to be a willingness to be open” is considered to be a

Good conversation

Bad conversation

Apology

Praise

43) All of the following are types of questions except ?

Direct questions

Test questions

Relative questions

Open questions

44) Hypothetical questions are used to ?

Check facts and to get specific information

To get added or more information

To encourage people to talk

To encourage people to reflect on certain issues and test their creativity and mental agility

45) Are you a student to this university ?.... This is considered as a ?

Probing question

Relative question

Close question

open question

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