September 28,2007

Career World/ "Go Green"
This article is about keeping the grass green at golf courses in Wisconsin. The people that work on the golf course has to keep the grass neat. The superintendent brings sheep onto the course so that people could see that it's authentic. (Weird)


MOM Is My Copilot
This article is about teens want there parents to help them find a good college and help fill out papers for there college. So most teens say that parents involved in their college lives are very good to them. Some of the teens don't want to have any involvement with them about going to college..

Lights Camera Action
This article is about people that make video resume, that it's better for them to do interviews that way. Video resume allows students to show off their creativity and communication. The way to do a video resume is to be professional, be concise, convey enthusiasm, and balance creativity with professionalism.

Passing On Test
This is about SAT and ACT that colleges and University's no longer requires test scores for admission. (That's Cool) The admission to a schools focus more on grades, difficulty of classes, and extracurricular activities.. that's pretty cool.

" 3cology by D3sign"

This article is about New York girl name Jenny Hwa, she is a fashion designer. She has her own business in New York, she also owns a line of woman clothing that helps the planet. (Weird) She works with different designers in New York, the people that she meet with they gave her understanding with crafts and the designer's role. The name of Jenny's company is called Loyale, this means to her that the company is loyal to environment and to style. cool... Jenny's company has been going on for 3 years and it's manufactured in the United States. This is a pretty cool thing for recycled products.. ☻

Major-ly Unique

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Career World

Go Organic
This section is about, over the years there has been organic food which had become the hottest sector in agriculture and its getting much bigger. In some states for the colleges they use organic agriculture for their majors. (????) There is a recent grad that her goal is to grow her own food and run a small farm of her own. (cool) Getting a degree in organic agriculture doesn't mean you have to become a grower.

Have Some Serious Fun
This section talks about toy designers, they are people that designs different toys that kids play with these days. Keith Noordzy has designed toys for awhile. Noordzy came up with a line of action figures that he made up. Students that take toy-designs probably go to school at Otis and they take intensive coursework in drawing. Graduate students have gone on tp work at big name companies such as Crayola's, Mattel, and Fisher -Price. (thats cool)

Ride Into the Sunset
This last section talks about guy name Dell he always loved horses and he thought that if he likes horses a lot why doesn't he make a career out of it. So than he did that he graduated from Lamar Community College. He used his degree in horse training and management to build a successful breeding. Dell spent lots of time riding and training horses. Now dozens of schools offer equine or equestrain studies. (nice)

C.O.D

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~Careers On Delivery~
This article is about teenagers that have jobs after high school and they have full-time jobs. There's this guy name Bory's Dudar, he has been working in a post office ever since 1935, and still today he works at a post office branch. The starting pay for a USPS is typically in the mid $20,000s.

What Jobs Are Available
This section talks about 80 percent of all jobs in the USPS require a application that you have to pass an entrance exam, which tests memory and coding and addresses.(You have to remember a lot.) The Carrier delivers have to pick up the mail on foot or vehicles. The mail processing clerk has to operate and monitors the automated mail that process the mail and sorts the mail out. The mail handler has to load and unload mails from trucks or boxes. And the sales, service, and distribution associate has to provides direct sales and customers services.

Seeking Promotion
This last section talks about a girl name Alicia Tutt, she workers at a post office that she began part-time in a distribution in 1992. She says that her family pretty much worked at post office also. After 10 months or so she applied to become a mail carrier. She also says that delivering mail gives her a chance to interact with the customers and get a chance to get outside instead of getting stuck in a office all day. (I would like to stay in an office.) Than she returned to college to finish a degree and hopes to move into working with the USPS again and becoming a marketing position.

*What's New , Interview? *

Kristen Lanza

September 20, 2007

Career World

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What’s New, Interview?

Tradition Interview

This article is about Interview’s that many people go through when they want a job. The traditional interview is most likely face-to-face and one-on-one. When you go to an interview you have to make eye contact, make questions clearly, and show your best showcase your best qualities. There’s this girl that did all of that when she was going to an interview, her name is Fanny. She was being herself and she was outgoing than she got the job just like that. She was also had a positive attitude toward the manager where she was going to be working with.

Technological Interview

This section talks about interviews by phone or e-mail even an instead (IM). For a phone interview you have to find a quiet place and have everything you need for an interview. If have an interview online than you have to have your interview papers and you can’t make any jokes and your correspondence should be very grammatically correct and carefully, that is for an (IM) also.

Panel Interview

This section is about panel interview this is just like a traditional interview but there are several people that are there with you. This interview is about when the other people see how well you get along with others. When you experience a panel interview is until after you get out of high school. Scott says that panel interviews are casual and laid-back, which is easy to relax (and impress). You have to make eye contact with each member in the room with you.

Working Interview

This is about sales that you have to sell packages for what ever company you are in. If you will have a job that is with working interview ask questions like “well it be a full workday?” There is no pay for working interview (cheap huh!). If you are offered in like community help, than this is like that. To seal the deal you have to show up on time, and be a responsible person.

Stress Interview

Jessica, 19 had applied for a customer service position, than she meet with the manager he was rude. She had realized that he was testing her for how long she can handle him. She had passed and was the new customer service. Remain clam if you go to an interview like this. Don’t get stressed out than you well get hired.

Behavioral/ Situation Interview

This section is talking about a guy name Hendershot, he says that your employer asks a question like when was the last time you used logic and good judgment to solve a problem. And that how would you deal with an angry customer or coworker. These kind of questions may be asked when you are in any type of interview. These are meant to glean information about you and about your problem-solving skills and behavioral.

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This article is about a fifth grade teacher that gives the scoop on life in front of the classroom. Zebulun Dinkins is a fifth grade teacher at Elementary School in Greenville, S.C. He is an African American male, he is a teacher that raps his lessons to the students. (Pretty Cool) Dinkins uses rap when he tells story's to get the students attention.
Dinkins is trying to do something good for the kids. He is a man that wants the students to learn about things a learn new things. Dinkins has a good theme on what he is teaching for these students. He says that if the kid who always do their work and get good grades, he wants to be fair with each student.
There are students that are not moved by working with text books. So than Dinkins found an idea that well get kids up and want to learn more.Than Dinkins made up the rapping thing than the students start to learn something. The kids are more likely to have learn more and be interested in doing the work.