Above And Beyond Promotion

Should I be applying to other companies while I’m interviewing with one?

I’m in my internship semester at college, which means that I don’t have any daytime classes but will have to spend most my time on work placement. I decided to go a step ahead and just look for a paid full time job that’s relevant with my field of study. I listed a lot of companies to apply to, but didn’t get around to send my resume to many.

Anyway, one of the first companies I applied to just interviewed me today, and a follow-up is scheduled. It is a prestigious media group, where I would be hired to report and write for their newest lifestyle magazine; but the chief editor told me that there would be opportunities for me to transfer to the other magazines, newspapers, and TV stations in the group. I’ve a feeling that I will end up working here, but I can’t know that for sure because it’s still the very early stages of our negotiations.

My campus sent me an internship form to fill out; I’ll have to name at least 3 companies with their contact persons. If I am already working, I could submit a letter from my employer and count that as my internship as long as I can justify how it will apply the things I’ve learnt from my college classes. I have applied to several “companies”, but really my major is performing arts and most of the organizations I applied to are theatre communities from which I am expecting no pay. I sent resumes, but most didn’t reply, and the one that did wasn’t currently recruiting, so I wouldn’t have contact persons for those organizations either. The other companies I considered included advertising companies, embassies, UN bodies, and international schools, but I didn’t get around to write to any of them.

Should I be applying to other companies and comparing their offers? Or should I just blindly stick to the good offer I currently have my hands on? This offer is rare enough and I don’t take it for granted, but do smart job seekers always have a back up plan? Or is it better to not apply to others at all than to risk turning down a good offer I might not be able to follow up on?

Changing my major during junior year?

I am 20 years old and a junior. I am an elementary education major but now that I am getting into my major courses, I really do not think teaching is for me. My parent’s are telling me to just stick with it and get the degree, and that I can do other things. The truth is that I can hardly do my school work for these education classes because I am just NOT interested in it! And I am scared to death of student teaching. I am seriously thinking about changing my major to International Business or something in Mass Comm (PR, Advertising). I feel like one or two more semesters in college would be better if I was more interested in the subject.

What do you all think? What should I do? And how should I get my parent’s to understand….

Is something FINALLY being done to prevent illegals sneaking across our border??

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Arizona borderlands that are covered:
• More than 60 miles stretching from about seven miles east of Sasabe to south of Fort Huachuca in Cochise County.
• More than 55 miles on the Tohono O’odham Reservation from just east of the village of Ali Ak Chin to about 21/2 miles west of Sasabe.
• More than 50 miles across the Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge west of Lukeville.
• More than 20 miles from about seven miles east of Douglas to about 11/2 miles west of the Arizona-New Mexico state line.
• 13.3 miles along the Colorado River near Yuma.
• 61/2 miles south of Sierra Vista near the Coronado National Monument.
• 6.9 miles starting 10 miles west of Naco going east.
• 6.4 miles starting just east of Naco running east.
• 5.3 miles starting from about 31/2 miles west of Lukeville to east of the town.
• 3.8 miles from Yuma County south of Somerton toward San Luis.
• 21/2 miles from a couple of miles west of Sasabe to east of the town.
• 1.6 miles on the western edge of the Tohono O’odham Reservation south of the village of Ali Ak Chin.
• A one-mile section west of Douglas.
Sources: Department of Homeland Security, International Boundary and Water Commission.

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Rules waived to add security along 220 miles of AZ border
By Brady McCombs and Howard Fischer
Arizona Daily Star Capitol Media Services
Tucson, Arizona | Published: 04.02.2008
advertisementThe Department of Homeland Security laid claim Tuesday to at least 220 of the 350 miles of U.S.-Mexican border in Arizona to build fences, roads and towers without having to comply with environmental regulations.
A congressionally mandated deadline to have 670 miles of fences, barriers, roads and lighting along the U.S.-Mexico border in place by the end of the year drove Secretary Michael Chertoff to invoke the waiver. To date, the agency has completed 309 miles of projects, leaving it with 361 miles to complete in nine months.
What Tuesday’s order does, Chertoff said, is ensure that the rest of what is necessary can be built without having to complete full-blown environmental-impact statements — and without fearing that one or more sections will become tied up in court.
The announcement, however, was greeted by disdain from local environmental-protection groups and a pair of Arizona legislators.
“I think every American should be up in arms that the federal government is waiving these laws,” said Sean Sullivan, co-chairman of the Sierra Club Rincon Group, which covers Southeastern Arizona. “They are just going to bulldoze ahead in order to get all the projects they had lined up completed.”
The waiver encompasses nearly two-thirds of Arizona’s international border, including swaths of land from as far west as Yuma to near the Arizona-New Mexico state line. Some of the larger expanses revealed by Homeland Security include:
? More than 60 miles stretching from about seven miles east of Sasabe to south of Fort Huachuca in Cochise County.
? More than 55 miles on the Tohono O’odham Reservation, from just east of the village of Ali Ak Chin to near Sasabe.
? More than 50 miles across the Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge west of Lukeville.
? More than 20 miles from east of Douglas to near the Arizona-New Mexico state line.
In total, Homeland Security identified 13 areas in Arizona. The detailed plans — or what’s already under construction or has been completed — for each of the areas weren’t available Tuesday. None is a new project, said Amy Kudwa, Homeland Security spokeswoman.
“We are simply moving forward with their expeditious construction,” Kudwa said.
The projects will fall under the general category of “pedestrian and vehicle fence construction, towers, sensors, cameras, detection equipment and roads in the vicinity of the border,” Homeland Security said.
It’s the fourth time Chertoff has used the waiver, created in the 2005 Real ID Act to waive compliance with federal regulations for all border projects. He invoked the waiver on the previous three occasions for individual projects: in October 2007 for construction of two miles of fencing in the San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area in Southeastern Arizona; in January 2007 on the Barry M. Goldwater Air Force Range in Southwestern Arizona; and in 2005 in San Diego.
Each use has elicited harsh criticism from environmentalists and critics who say no one person should have such overreaching power.
Chertoff’s use of that 2005 waiver authority “has created a lawless border,” said Matt Clark, Southwest representative of Defenders of Wildlife.
The waiver continues a pattern of neglecting important environmental, health and safety laws to build an ineffective and environmentally damaging border wall, Clark said.
“That arbitrary deadline has resulted in lawlessness along the border and a disregard for environmental health and safety laws,” he said.
In a statement, U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., called the use of the waiver “outrageous,” saying neither her office nor local or state elected officials were consulted.
“This is unacceptable,” Giffords said. “A federal government construction project of this magnitude will impact significantly on local residents, communities and the environment. Those of us who live on the border and represent border communities deserve a seat at the table.”
U.S. Rep. Raúl Grijalva, D-Ariz., called such a broad and poorly conceived waiver lazy.
“Secretary Chertoff is abusing the authority granted him by the Congress with this ham-handed waiver,” Grijalva said in a statement. “With the stroke of his pen, he overturns 36 laws — some of which have been protecting our resources and our health for more than a century — in an area stretching from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific Ocean.”
In a prepared statement Tuesday, Chertoff said his actions are justified.
“The flow of illegal traffic through the border region imperils our ability to fight terrorism by stopping the illegal entry of terrorists, and exposes our border communities and the rest of the United States to the ill effects of drug smuggling, human smuggling and gang activity,” he said. “Illegal border traffic has also caused severe and profound impacts to the environment.”
Invoking the waiver will prevent legal wrangling that could delay projects, he said. That’s exactly what happened last year when two environmental groups sought to halt construction of fences and vehicle barriers along the southern edge of the San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area. Challengers said federal officials did not properly consider ways to minimize the impact of the new construction.
Chertoff eventually invoked the waiver, and construction continued.
Chertoff denied that environmental concerns are being ignored. He said that there is at least a “draft environmental assessment or environmental impact statement” for all of the miles where his agency is erecting new pedestrian fencing. And he said most of the other projects — aside from fences to keep pedestrians out — also will have those kinds of assessments.

Interviews! I get stuck on this question. How do I solve it?

The question of ‘what will you bring to my company?’ I just never know what to say properly i.e. if it was for this job, what could I say?
Description
Graduate Advertising Executive

Your Profile

As a Graduate Advertising Account Executive you will be a Graduate or of Graduate-calibre and looking to join one of the leading international out of home Media Advertising Agencies. This specialist Media Advertising Agency are seeking a self motivated, enthusiastic graduate, who has a passion for the media and advertising industry. You must have an interest or experience in media ideally within the outdoor industry!

The Role

The successful Graduate Advertising Account Executive will join the team from the bottom and learn the basics of out of home advertising, working closely with the Account Manager, taking briefs from agencies and assisting with the planning of advertising campaigns. You will work across the variety of out of home advertising mediums – being creative in your approach.

The Company

This worldwide Media Advertising Agency have over 30 years of media planning and buying experience dealing with Ambient Media and Out of Home advertising, which comprises of roadside posters, bus advertising, taxi advertising and Underground advertising. With offices all over the world and with central offices in New York, Singapore, Frankfurt, Budapest and the Philippines.
it ISN’T working from home.
I DID look through the website, I DID read through the thing above but I panick at that question ALL the time. I am a creative person and this job would HAVE been ideal for me because I have 5 yrs experience in the design field. I will bring new ideas to the table and with that, put to use my good communication and organisation skills. I am passionate and hard working…do you mean stuff like this? It was all written in my CV. I don’t want to repeat things. DAMN!

Math problem involving Combinations & Permutations! HELP!?

International Enterprises
123 Hamilton St.
Allentown, PA 18104

Mathematics Department
Johnson & Wales University
7150 Montview Boulevard
Denver, CO 80220

Dear Statistics Students:

I recently landed a Job at International Enterprises. Parts of my job responsibilities include organizing an advertising campaign for one of our clients. I have run into some trouble with this. I called the math department at your school and they referred me to your professor who referred me to you.

The restaurant chain Chicken Licken has asked our company to write and design their new ads. They offer a deal where for $8.95 the customer chooses one of five main courses: a chicken sandwich, a chicken breast, chicken pot pie, chicken sticks, or vegetarian lasagna. With each meal the customer also has the choice of two side dishes. The restaurant offers French fries, mashed potatoes with gravy, baked potatoes, hash browns, bread, salad, soup, biscuits, cottage cheese, or fruit. So in total, there are ten side dishes. The meal also comes with dessert. Here are the four choices: pie, ice cream, cake, or cookies. As part of the ad, the company wanted to know the number of different possible meals. After consulting a book, I calculated there are 1800 possible meals, which seemed like a nice number to use in advertising.

I told a friend about my project and she said that she had read an article (“Teacher’s Diligence Finds Fame, Free Lunch,” The Morning Call (Allentown), Jan. 21, 1995, Joseph P. Ferry) about how Boston Chicken (now known as Boston Market) had run a similar ad and has miscalculated the number of possible meals. Apparently they offered sixteen side dishes and the customer was allowed to chose three of them with each meal. The company’s ad (apparently featured quarterback Joe Montana) claimed that there were 3,360 possible combinations of three side dishes chosen from the sixteen offered. A high school mathematics teacher, Bob Swaim, Convinced them that they had made a mistake. He and thirty of his student received free lunch from Boston Chicken. He also appeared on the CBS program “Good Morning America.” The teacher argued that whoever had done the mathematics had confused the concepts of permutations and combinations. By his calculations there were only 816 different combinations available. He also noted that the ad did not allow the possibility of choosing a side dish more than once and that his formula did. After hearing about this I began to question the calculations that I had made. I don’t want to be embarrassed by having the same thing happen to Chicken Licken.

Since you are college students, I have every faith in your abilities to help me out. I need to know how many possible meals there are. I would also appreciate it if you could tell me how Boston Chicken and Bob Swaim arrived at their different answers. Thank for all of your help.

Yours Sincerely,

J.R. Doe