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Marketing professionals use information systems to gather and analyze information about their competitors. They use this information to assess their product's position relative to the competition and make strategic marketing decisions about the product, its price, its distribution (place), and the best way to manage its promotion. Michael Boomberg, founder of Bloomberg and others have made their fortunes gathering and selling data about businesses. Marketing professionals find information about a business's industry, location, employees, products, technologies, revenues, and market share useful when planning marketing initiatives.
During your senior year, you will find yourself in close competition for jobs. You can take the same intelligence-gathering approach used by professional marketers when planning how to sell your own skills. Use the following questions to help you prepare for your job search:
a. Product: Which business majors are presently in greatest demand by employers? Use entry-level salaries as the primary indicator for demand.
b. Product: Which colleges or universities in your region pose the greatest competitive threat to students with your major?
c. Price: What is the average salary for entry-level employees in your major and geographic region? Is salary your top concern? Why or why not?
d. Place: Which areas of the country are currently experiencing the greatest employement growth?
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Corporations use profit as their moral guide
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Cut of manpower numbers according to crime statistics
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What is another term for power relations wherever they exist
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Language and bilingualism issue for latino communities
: Language and bilingualism is an issue for Latino communities and writers in the United States; debates rage about the value of voice and the legal status of language. Bilingualism is treated in a very funny way by the following writer.
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Analyze information about their competitors
: Marketing professionals use information systems to gather and analyze information about their competitors.
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More prevalent crimes of the 21st century
: Identity theft is one of the more prevalent crimes of the 21st century. List ways in which a person can protect her/his identity from being stolen, and list the various ways in which criminals use identity theft for their personal gain.
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Consumer proctection
: Share the deceptive tactic you investigated from the e-Activity. On a scale of 1 to 5 with 5 being highly deceptive, rate the tactic you found and state why you gave it that rating.
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Explore the role of stereotypes
: A number of Latino writers deal with images of Latinos/as to analyze and explore the role of stereotypes. We can find examples in the reading.
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The term nuyorican was born
: The term Nuyorican was born- In the 1950s as a way to identify Puerto Ricans living in New York. In the 1960s as a derogatory way to call Puerto Ricans in the United States.
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