English 420Y - Business Writing Online

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This is my final project in PDF format.

I thought all of the readings for this week were very interesting and brought up good points for consideration. I believe the JetBlue crisis was handled very well and it was good to see the different things that the company did to make sure that this kind of event would not happen again. It was nice to see that someone was actually doing the right thing in handling an event such as the one that they had. It seems that we are hearing more and more everyday about companies trying to cover themselves and not being ethical to their consumers.

The article that I found to be pretty interesting concerning the Jet Blue crisis was found on Forbes.com and was titled, "JetBlue's Survival School."

http://www.forbes.com/leadership/2007/02/20/neeleman-jet-blue-lead-cx_tw...

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This activity was very interesting to me because it helped me understand what employers many times do. We only had to go through about thirty five resumes so I can only imagine going through at least hundreds. It would take a large amount of time to go through and read every detail on the resume. When I was going through the resumes the first thing that I looked at was the organization of the resume. If I felt that it was difficult to read or a little hard to understand I usually just skipped over it. I then looked at the content of the page.

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In the resume readings I thought it was interesting how often it was noted that employers do not spend hardly any time at all going over resumes. The times that they said were just around thirty seconds. This does not seem like a lot of time for an employer to evaluate someone, so it just shows how important it is to do a good job on your resume. You must make sure that you get to the point and also use keywords that they will be looking for. It is also important to make sure that it is presentable and looks well developed.

This is a position for a campus consultant for Sports Illustrated. The responsibilities of this position are to promote Sports Illustrated on campus and to communicate information back to the different departments at Sports Illustrated. The main duties are to work with a team to come up with a marketing strategy for the magazine, to provide information about the different media and groups, to provide feedback on student's response to the magazine, help with Sports Illustrated events, participate in panel discussions, and distribute information and material to other students.

1. Retail worker, The Pool Man in Clarksville, IN; Supervisor Lisa Kane; May 31, 2005-July 31, 2005; analyzed chemicals in pool water, communicated with and aided customers, and organized the show room.
Pharmacy Technician, Westmoreland Pharmacy in New Albany, IN; Supervisor Anthony Westmoreland; May 6, 2006- June 8, 2006; communicated with and aided customers, filled prescripitions, and organized inventory.
2. Big sister; Big Brothers, Big Sisters in Lafayette, IN; Supervisor Jodi Dahm; September 2007-present ; visited elementary school weekly and did activities with child.