BUS assigments

Assigment 4

Companies occasionally make mistakes that expose confidential information, such as when employees lose laptop computers containing sensitive data files or webmasters forget to protect confidential webpages from search engine indexes. If you conducted an online search that turned up competitive information on webpages that were clearly intended to be private, what would you do? Explain your answer in at least 2 paragraphs.

Assigment 5

Select any publicly traded company and find the following information:

· Names of the company's current officers

· List of the company's products, or services (or, if the company has a large number of products, the product lines or divisions)

· 3 important issues in the company's industry

· The outlook for the company as a whole

Remember, a publicly traded company company means they are listed on the stock exchange, so Uber wouldn't count as it's a private company. Yahoo and Google Finance are good resources to use.

Assigment 6

1. Between your sophomore and junior years, you quit school for a year to earn money to finish college. You worked as a loan-processing assistance in a finance company, checking references on loan applications, typing, and filing. Your manager made a lot of the fact that he had never attended college. He seemed to resent you for pursuing your education, but he never criticized your work, so you thought you were doing OK. After you'd been working there for six months, he fired you, saying that you had failed to be thorough enough in your credit checks. You were actually glad to leave, and you found another job right away, at a bank doing similar duties. Now that you've graduated from college, you are working on updating your resume. Will you include the finance company job in your work history? Explain.

2. Many people don't have a clear career path when they enter the job market. If you're in this situation, how would your uncertainty affect the way your write your resume?

Assigment 7

Listen to the following podcast (direct link included in case the hyper-link doesn't work, otherwise, Google it!)

How safe is your job? (Links to an external site.)

http://freakonomics.com/podcast/safe-job-rebroadcast/

· What advice can you take away from this episode?

· How would you advise others worried about how safe their jobs are?

· What can you personally do to make yourself more valuable at work?