Career World for November - December 2007 Pg# 5-6

A Pass on Grades
Instead of traditional letter grades, students receive written evaluations of their performance. a few colleges such as, Sarah Lawrence College, Bennington College, and the University of California, Santa Cruz, are just a few of the schools that use the system. This system emphasizes a one-one-one relationship between professors and students.
Without the pressure of maintaining grade point averages, students are free to focus on learning for learning's sake.
Actually, I'm an Actuary
An actuary is someone who specializes in risks-not taking them, but evaluating them. Actuaries use mathematical models to determine the possible financial consequences of future events.
Jobs Rated Almanac consistently ranks actuary as one of the top five jobs in the United States. because they are in high demand, the job tends to pay well-the average salary is more than $80,000
Simply the Best
The National Engineering Design Challenge (NEDC) is an annual contest that invites students to create products that will help people with disabilities succeed in the workplace.
Bite Your Tongue
36% of recruiters say the most common mistake candidates make during interviews is talking too much. Good communication is a two-way street, and big talkers are often not very good listeners.

Where Do I Go With Speech and Debate?

Degree Key
H = high school diploma
A = associate degree
B = bachelor's degree
M = master's degree
D = doctoral degree

You may take them everywhere. Such as the government, acting, sales, broadcasting, the law, speechwriting, counseling, library, public relations, and corporate trainers.

Setting Her Sites

Robin Liss, 23, did not have to buy a good suit, pound the pavement, and sit through interview after interview to land a job. that's because she already had a job - as the chief executive office (CEO) of her own company, Reviewed.com. It's a job the 2006 graduate of Tufts University had throughout her high school and college years.

Working on the Railroad

Sharon Carlquist's is a conductor for Metro-North Railroad, a passenger line used daily by thousands of commuters in New York and Connecticut. She works four hours in the morning and than has four hours off. She might go to a park, see a movie, read,nap, or do whatever strikers her fancy. Then she puts her final hours before heading home.
Carlquist was conducting a southbound train headed to New York City on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001.

E-Learning: The Anytime, Anywhere Option

There are some people who like to earn their college credits without leaving their houses. A visual communications major at Georgia's Savannah College of Art and Design has taken several speech and computer courses online along with his regular classroom studies.
Even though take online classes seems easy, these students are working hard. These students are earning credits at their own pace, on a schedule and in a setting that works for them.
E-classes fall into two categories:
- Synchronous classes allows the instructor and students to log on at a prearranged time and conduct class through chat rooms or streaming video.
- Asynchronous classes allow students to log on anytime within an assigned time frame to trn in and receive assignments, take tests, or post to message boards.
"E-LEARNING IS ON THE RISE."

Remote Access

The beginning of this reading, I read about 32 year old Jacqueline Colligan; she has a very busy schedule everyday because of her job and the traffic that delays her schedule back 20 minutes. She is a part time telecommuter, working from her townhouse in Weymouth, Massachusetts, several days each month.
More Companies Step Up
Telecommuting has grown steadily since the 1980's, when the idea originated in response to the energy crisis, transportation issues, and environmental concerns. today, those same issues, as well as work life balance issues, drives workers to choose telecommuting, even if just part of the time.

Building Pages

Career World explores a day in life of a Web site producer.

Today we are using various resources to help us find facts about our topic. However, we are mainly using the Internet because that is the first resource that we think about when we are asked what are we going to use. There are also numerous websites that we are able to look at to find out about the topic. So basically what I am saying is we are dependent on resources because they help us with what we want.

WEB SITE PRODUCER: THE FACTS Training: Bachelor’s degree; computer skills, including HTML, Photo shop, and experience with a content management system. Salary range: $30,000 - $90,000, depending on experience and size of company. Outlook: Good, with the Internet growing bigger and more important every day. Dress code: Varies by company: casual to business casual Walsh’s advice: “Always pay attention to Internet news and cool new sites and technologies. Things are changing so fast that if you stay current, you can know as much as people who have studied and worked for years! Also, it’s not that hard to learn HTML, Photoshop, and other popular programs by playing around with them. That will give you a big head start in school. Try to get an internship in order to get office experience.”

Protect The Digital Frontier

A member of a secret society of hackers called the Botmaster Underground got caught for invading computer systems and gained complete control over the affected computer or computers. The defendants name is Jeanson James Ancheta, 20-year-old drop out student from Downey, California. Online criminals cost U.S. organizations $11.9 billion a year. And not just money is being lost. In conclusion, the computers that were affected also had to be replaced because the system was stolen. "When will we have a cyber Pearl Harbor? -Terry Benzel
The Might Mouse
The U.S. Air Force formed a Cyber Command, a group of computer security experts whose duty is to defend against enemies on the frontier in 2006.
Do not anyone use your computer.

'NET WORKING

Navigate the Web to connect and communicate with people who may lead you to a job.

Linked In to MySpace
When you are using MySpace and other social networking sites you do not have a lack of support by people that you hardly know for making wise decisions.
You.com
A personal Web site also is a phenomenal tool to accomplish a goal. "I see the Internet as an endless possibility of making connections with anyone and everyone." -Jamelle Williams
Please Leave a Message
A good strategy if to find message boards that center around the industry you're interested in and watch the posts.
Blog it

When you are blogging , your post has your prospective and an outlook on the topic. It should be clearly written and understandable.
Connect Carefully
Do not give out and personal information about yourself (confidentiality). If you do this there will be no killing or other type of stuff happening to you or others.
Today I learned a couple of new information about what to do and what not to do. I will take what's been taught to me and take it into consideration.

Teen Close-Up Jacob's Cool Computer Program, Web-Search Woes, & The IT Factor

Article About Jacob Komar
It must be very interesting to be Jacob Komar because he can get lots of money for what he is doing for our society. However, it must be a challenge because computers are hard to work with if you hardly know how to use it.
You have to have long-term memory, organization, and patience to put computers back together. "Jacob's goal is to help solve what he calls the greatest challenge facing the United States today - the digital divide." -Career World.

Web-Search Woes
"The Educational Testing Service (ETS) asked 6,300 high school seniors and college students to evaluate a set of five Web sites for objectivity, authority, and timeliness. Fewer than half the students idenitified the one Web site that met all the criteria." -Career World

The IT Factor
Besides dot com there is dot org, or dot net. However, I do not know what they mean.

Career World 411

MOM Is My Copilot
Having your parents around for make adult decisions can be positive and helpful. However, it can also be a messed up thing depending on your family. If they want the best for you, then you are in luck.


The Parent Trap

• 6% want their parents to be less involved.
• 9% did not offer an opinion
• 28% want parents to be more involved
• 60% are satisfied with parents level of involvement

Lights! Camera! Action
Video resumes are displaying your creativity and communication skills - the qualities that do not come across on a sheet of paper. You have to:

1. Be Professional
2. Be concise
3. Convey enthusiasm
4. Balance creativity with professionalism
   

Where Do I Go W/ Biology?

From my personal experience, I wanted to know what was around me and how we adapt into our environment. Because if I do not know anything about where I am at, there is going to be no way that I am going to get use to it. However, it was challenging and complicated. But check this out, everybody is different so go build your challenge into a strength and enjoy it while you are here.

Ecology By DESIGN

This article is about a 28 year old lady that was trained at the New York's Fashion Institute of Technology to learn how to make clothes and other stuff. Loyale is loyal both to the environment and to style. The clothing is manufactured in the United States. So anything is possible if you want it and get it.

Ronnie Baby

KEEP UR HEAD UP & LET NO 1 BRING U DOWN, U NEED 2 STAY STRONG & DO WHAT U THINK & KNOW IS RIGHT, U'LL B MISSED VERY MUCH MA NATIVE HOME GIRL! - CHARLES BENSON

Honesty

"I will be true to myself and will not sacrifice my self respect for anyone or anything. I also deserve happiness all around." -Magic Don Juan

All Somethin' Somethin'

"I will leave my past behind me, but never forget where I've been & what it cost me. I will learn from my mistakes and will keep moving forward. I wish nothing but the best for me but nothing worth having comes easily so I will also figure out what I want in life and work hard for it." -Magic Don Juan

Creative? You? Yes!

Being creative may get you where you want to get in life. Being successful also will help you get there because it should be apart of your goals that you want to accomplish. And if you die, you perhaps want to be remembered in a well behaves way. Instead of messy around all the time. Those kind of behaviors do not get anybody anywhere. In some shape or form those people always get caught and get locked up.
So choose wisely and be creative because that is another path to success.

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By the Books
There are many people interested in the Military because it pays for their college and perhaps gives them money if they are going to college. It also builds integrity, discipline, confidence, trust within yourself and others, and gives you various opportunities that you are interested in. However, you can also gain those by finding it and accomplishing your goal.

Ready to Get to Work?
Students wanting to go to work because they do not want to be a failure. They want to succeed in what their plans are. However, if you are working to get drugs, damn you are already failing. However, you can be mature enough to pull yourself out of the dump you are putting yourself in.

MAPPING Your Future

There are numerous people that have various interests in what they want to do with there lives. Some people enjoy making maps for us to use while we are traveling. Mapping making is made with various high-tech tools.
When maps are being made, they already have an image from a satellite (Global Positioning System). It does not take only a day, perhaps it takes over 3 years.
- "I am wondering how people can be interested in making maps."

Making The Grade

This fifth grade teacher, Mister Zebulun Dinkins, is teaching students in a very unique way at Welcome Elementary School in Greenville, S.C. He is rapping the stuff that they should be learning what fifth graders should be learning. However, these students like it because numerous people like music and that's what they think they are learning from. Sporadically, they are willing to learn in various ways.

Piggy Pie by ICP

The first little piggy, his house is made of wood,
He lives in a chicken turkey piggy neighborhood.
He likes to f**k his sister, and drink his moonshine,
A typical redneck filthy f**kin’ swine!
I rode into town with my ax in my holster,
Everybody knows about the wicked piggy roaster.
The sheriff at the border, he tried to take me out,
I drew my ax with the quickness, and cut his Adams apple out!
Walked in the village, and to the piggy’s place,
He opened up his door, and shot me in the face.
It blew me off the porch, and blew my head in half,
But I’m a juggalo, so it only made me laugh. (he he!)
Ax in hand, I rose like the dead,
And swung with all my might,
I made a thump noise in his head.
Since we out west, I grabbed the shot gun,
And blew his f**kin’ tongue out the back of his cranium!
Three little piggies, to make a piggy pie.
There’s nothing like the sound when you hear a piggy cry.
I might use a gun, (no!)
I might use an ax, (yes!)
The carnival’s in town, come and get your piggy snacks!
The second little piggy, his house is made of brick,
And this little piggy is a mutha f**kin’ dick.
He lays down his rules and reads you your rights
In that funny lookin' car with the little blinkin' lights
I drive a volkswagon bug 17 deep
Packed full of juggalo’s lights out and we creep
To the piggy station and lay on the horn
First piggy out we blow his lungs out his uniform
Now the air kazoo like starsky and hutch
But there’s only 2 of them the rest are out to lunch
They call up dunkin dough nuts to gather up the rest
25 piggy’s with they bullet proof vests
We lead ’em on a chase, they blowin' off rounds
Now they all front cuz we at the carney grounds
And they gettin swallowed by they very own greed
Dark carnival and wicked clowns cuz we need
Three little piggies, to make a piggy pie
There’s nothin' like the sound when you hear a piggy cry
I might use a gun, (no!)
I might use an ax, (yes!)
The carnival’s in town come and get your piggy snacks (2x)
The last little piggy, his house is made of gold,
He lives in a mansion on his own private road,
I started walking down it, the guard he told me wait,
I snapped his f**kin' neck in 2 and slammed his nuts in the gate!
cuz this little piggy, must definitely die,
I’m a lop his nugget off and toss it in the sky.
And then I watch the moon take the form of the devil,
And pull it out the sky, and beat it with a shovel.
People in my city, they fight for they meals,
He sleeps on a mattress stuffed with hundred dollar bills.
A Ritchie is the devil, he never really made it,
So I’m a cut his hand off and slap his face wit’ it.
Opened up his door, he’s sleeping in his bed,
I grabbed a brick, and Roller-laid it upside his head.
He begged for his life, I told him it’s too late,
And tied his neck in a knot and watched him suffocate, cuz I need
Three little piggies, to make a piggy pie
There’s nothin like the sound when you hear a piggy cry
I might use a gun, (no!)
I might use an ax, (yes!)
The carnival’s in town come and get your piggy snacks

Major-ly Unique

"From experience, working with horses and other animals is very difficult but joyful and exciting. "
-Ronnie Yazzie

Numerous people like to do various things. Even though they hardly have talent they do their best so they could to build their confidence in what they hardly have knowledge about. However, some people give up and do not care anymore because they gave in their interest. If you continue to want to learn everyday, you can be a successful learner, doer, and teacher.

C.O.D. Careers On Delivery

Working for the USPS is that bad, because you get to work for days that you want to alienate others away from you. From my prospective, I think that it is a good job for those who do not want to work for construction, carpentry, or other jobs. If you like to do anything in the services company; working with the U.S. Postal Services (USPS) is the best job.

What Jobs Are Available?

Carrier:

• Delivers and collects mail on foot or by vehicle, providing customer service in a prescribed area. Carriers are able to go anywhere they are put for the job.

Mail-processing clerk:

• These people operate and monitor automated mail processing equipment. A clerk collects, bundles, and moves processed mail from one area to another.

Mail handler:

• These workers loads and unloads containers of mail.

Sales, services, and distribution associate:

• These people provide direct sales and customer support services in a retail environment.

United States Postal Service (USPS) by the Numbers Career employees: 616,772 Average annual salary: $46,388 Average hourly rate without benefits: $22.19 Average hourly rate with benefits: $37.35 Source: U.S. Postal Services, 2006

What's New, Interview?

There are numerous feelings and emotions that individuals get before, during, and after an interview. Those feelings are anxiety, nervousness, sweaty palms, faster heart beats, being optimistic about getting the job, and thinking about all of the things that might be said.Traditional Interviews are face-to-face and one-on-one interviews. During this interview you have to speak clearly, make eye contact, ask questions about the job, and talk about your qualities, skills, and be very descriptive of what type of job you are looking for. Technological Interviews are computers (E-mail and instant message IM) and phones (voice mail).

· By Phone:

1. Find a quiet location and have a pen and your résumé on hand.

· Interviewing online

1. The interviewer is not your friend, do not get sidetracked, STAY FOCUSED!

Panel interviews are not experienced until after high school. It is just like a traditional interview except instead of one person deciding your fate. These interviews are used to see how well you get along with others and whether you will be hired or not hired. This interview may be laid-back and casual, which often makes it easier to relax and impress! There is more than one and two people which you have to make eye contact with each member of the group, but focus on the individual who asked the question. After answering, look around to see if anyone (wants) further clarification. Working interviews are not the best in the world because most of the time you are use to traditional interviews. During this interview, they watch how you work with the sales team and your performance within this company. Stress interviews are interviewers being rude and sarcastic to see whether you are able to handle the customers who are needy. However, this type interview needs to handle by taking a deep breath and acting like his/her attitude does not faze you. Behavioral/Situational Interviews are questions asked about real-life situations, because they want to know how well you can handle various situations. However, it can be effective to your capability of working with your co-workers and your new team members of the company you've applied for.