Job Market

Getting a job is extremely hard especially in our current job market. Many companies are not hiring as much anymore because they are scared on what kind of workers they are hiring because if they hire a bad worker, they might bring their hard worked company down. Resume can help unemployed workers get jobs. Knowing what you are good at and what other company are looking for can help unemployed land jobs. My sister had an amazing resume and she got interviewed by one of the partners on the accounting firm. She later got the job and she told me they're where even applicants out of state. I'm not sure how the firm do their interviews and how they screen their resumes but I am sure that internet have a big part of having many applicants out of state. Craigslist for example have many workers looking for work and posting resumes for people to know what their expertise are.

---- Val Morano Week 15

Job Modules

In class we have reviewed job search, application and interviewing in our last three modules. Unemployment is currently unusually high; these lessons we have been taught will be our soon only hope to stand out in a crowd of applicants. Every module has taught me something new in my expansion of my career. What I have noticed the most is that I have been able to pin point my weaknesses in my interviewing process as well as my resumes. Internet overall has changed how I view new opportunities because mass of material. With the internet I am able to search jobs, search interested companies information and to better myself for my interviewing process. I am very grateful for these last three lessons. I am very confident to say that I will use the material for my future career plan. 

-Lindsey Driskell week 15 

Stress Reliever

 For me, I didnt feel the pressure of standing in front of a crowd and speaking to them.  I am nervous when talking because i have an accent but since its through a laptop, I didnt feel nervous.  What didnt work for me is that I didnt feel like I put everything on how i presented.  I would practice my speech like i would in front of a crowd because to me that would make it feel like you made sure you did 100% effort in the project.  Practice makes perfect.  Practice speech is the key on success especially if you want to present a project in front of CEO or Managers.  Practice, practice, practice and more practice :-D



Val Morano Week 13

Presentation Project

This project seemed like a fun way to be creative with power point. I thought I had it all figured out, I even had my actual presentation done many days in advance. When it came down to using voice thread my presentation text wouldn't load properly. This was a huge shock considering I thought this project was going to be a breeze. Once I converted everything from Mac to Microsoft I then realized that I had to listen to my self talk on a recording. This is the hardest thing to do, my voice is so embarrassing, but I got it done! 

What I would do differently next time is review those that are already had been done so I can apply what they did to my own. I realized that I had done a few things different then others, but that is what kept my interesting. On my project you actually had to switch over to the next slide to hear my audio, this worked better for me because I then had less errors once I decreased the length of time my voice was on the recorder. 

In the end everything worked.

This project has taught me a lot for my future professional career. I can apply this to my future presentations.

Lindsey Driskell Week 13

My Thoughts

For me, the most important section that I read is the business plan.  Business plan s are detailed written statement that describes the nature of the business, the target market, the advantages the business will have in relation to competition and the resources and qualifications of the owners. Business plans lets us foresee our business before it actually begins, that way we can predict if our business will succeed or fail. I want to start a business in a future and I would like to know how to make write great business plans. Now chapter 6, which was crafting messages for electronic media felt non-important because I feel like I didn't learn much about the subject just because I use electronic media everyday. I am using emails, text messaging and Facebook on a regular basis which makes the chapter somewhat irrelevant.

Val Morano Week 11

Reflection

BUS 140 has been a big eye opener over the past 11 weeks. The lessons learned have helped me be more successful in my job today at Bank of America and it has taught me new lessons for the future. The last few 11 weeks has also helped me make up my mind about what my true descriptive major. The most valuable lesson has been business messages and presentations. I write a lot of emails and business letters at Bank of America and with coming home every day to log in online and learn something new on those regards I have learned a lot and progressed in my job. I am already using what I have learned and I plan on applying it even more so after I have obtained my degree and begun my new career. I personally can not recall one lesson that was not valuable. I want to thank everyone for all their help and input. This has been a great year so far! 



Lindsey Driskell Week 11 

Electronic Media

I have always like the idea of social networking as a business tool but didn’t think there were more media choices out besides email and social networks.  I know about blogging but didn’t know that there is a micro-blogging.  For me, I define micro-blog like Twitter as a way to communicate to people to exchange small contents such as short sentences, individual images, or video links.  Twitter would be a great asset for business, so they can see what people like and dislike about their business causing improvement on customer’s service. Podcasting I have heard about but didn’t know what podcasting was until I read the chapter. Podcast is a media device that users can upload audio or video for people to hear or see. Business can use podcast as a way for conference calls, training courses or other communication activities. This can lower the company expenses because trainees can learn from the video instead of hiring someone expensive for the trainee to learn from. Online Video’s like YouTube is another way for business communications. Let’s say you put a video about your product in YouTube. YouTube users are going to write how they like or dislike the product and that will improve how the product will be created. I still believe that these media devices improve businesses because they influence more people in our society.

Val Morano Week 7.4

Electronic Media

Going into the text of this weeks lesson, I thought I already had the knowledge of electronic media considering my generation. After reading the chapter I was extremely surprised in what I learned. On the business perspective, social networking is very important. Social networking reaches an endless amount of people and is key in business success. Blogging and podcasting have been introduced to me in a good manner. With our interactions we are all having with our blogs and assignments about podcasting I can say that I now have experience in business social media. Microblogging is just another new window that I am very excited about. I always said I would never obtain a Twitter, but now that I am participating in microblogging and teasers in Twitter, I am hooked. My overall view of social networking as changed significantly. In a strange way I almost have more respect for social networks like Twitter. My perspective at first was that they were places that teenagers went to vent about their feelings. Now that I am following strong organizations and important figures I see now that they are promoting and inspiring our society. I am very intrigued and I plan on remaining an addict of social networking.  

Lindsey Driskell Week 7.4

Key to Success

At the moment, employment is hard due to businessmen cannot spend money to hire more people due to economy. I currently work as a hibachi chef in Hinode Japanese Steakhouse. I have been there for 6 years and I would say that my job is stable due to the company needing me to work there. I have seen many servers, busboy, cashier, hostesses, and sushi chefs that use to work there but have been replace yet only 3 chefs that were fired because the business need us the most. I will say that out of all the Japanese steakhouse, Hinode doesn’t advertise. We depend on people that ate at Hinode’s would tell people how amazing the experience was and would come again with more people. Yet this isn’t as effective because the idea can backfire on us. What if a customer hated a chef and would tell their friends how horrible the restaurant treated them. The company does not do advertisement, they rely on the customers to spread the word yet if we treat the customer horrible, we would lose more customers if they tell other people. Having a blog would give us advertisement that we need.  We won’t rely on “word of mouth” but we can rely on our blogs.  Public relations are our key idea in order for us to succeed. We need customers to come happy and leave happy.  Our head chef has said before, “It takes a year to make a customer a regular but it takes one bad memory for them to leave”. Those words mean to use more than anything else because customers is our lifeline and having a blog can help us communicate with them better. Plus it is much easier to write our feelings in the internet than expressing it in person and that is why having a blog is a key to our success.

For The People

I usually don’t know much about blogs but when I do see one, the first words I read is the title and I can say is that Southwest Airlines got one of the best blog titles I have seen. The title is called “Nuts about Southwest” and that is catchy and making people want to read more about Southwest. Another characteristic about the blog that I like is how the blog leans towards their employees. Most blogs I see is that employees right what they like about working in Southwest Airlines. Not only that employees share about how they feel about the company but workers also share their feelings on other subjects they love. One of the employees, blogged about Knights of Heroes which focuses on proving to kids that the only thing standing in the way of achieving their dreams is the limitations they place on themselves. This blog doesn’t have any ties with Southwest yet I like the idea of letting the employees share their feelings because the employees will bond better making the company better. Now another idea I love about Southwest Company is that they try to involve the community. They want their employees to do a community service on any non-profit organization. After they do a community service, they can add their names on a ballot and have a chance on getting a reward. One of the rewards is flying on a new Boeing airplane which an employee said “I just love that new plane smell!” Having employees happy, now that is smart business. If you want to read more visit this website: http://www.blogsouthwest.com/



Val Morano, Week 6.3

Current Employee Situation

Employment and titles are very important in our society. If you must know, I am 21 years old and I have been in banking for almost more then 2 years now. I love it and I wouldn’t trade it for the world. I was a full time teller and personal banker in Missouri at Liberty Bank until I recently moved to Florida to follow my husband to law school. With that said, I am a full time student at OTC and currently working for Bank of American here in Florida.This is my last semester at OTC and I am very excited to use my AA degree to transfer to a larger University to major in a progressive career. I can see the benefits in blogging for the banking world. With blogs it would be very easy to share visibility, sales and public relation. Although most banking information but credited to FDIC, I can see how posting positive things about community growth, sales, and customer appreciation could result in more customers and understanding of banking. Blogs overall should be utilized for growth in a business and I can see the connections with banking. Tell me what you think! 

Lindsey Driskell, week 6.3 

Delta Air Lines - Corporate Blog Review

When deciding a corporate blog to review, I went with who I fly with the most, Delta Air Lines.

http://blog.delta.com

Naturally, I am in favor of Delta Airlines because they have always been very corporative in my history. When opening their blog I was quick to judge. My first thought was how plan and boring the blog and site was. Once I started reading and scrolling through the posts and options, I realized that instead of boring, the blog was actually simplistic. The simplicity of the blog made it easy for me to understand where I can go to read or seek more information over a certain topic. The blog posts are very informative and keep me looked in because they all apply to me. Delta seems to know who their audience is and it shows through their blog. Along side of very informative Delta posts, there are customer and employee posts telling their story. The sense of another person’s point of view insures Delta quality to myself and others viewing the blog. Through viewing Delta’s user friendly blog, I now have seen the importance in businesses having blogs. I approve of Delta Air Line’s Blog!

Lindsey Driskell, week 6.3