YOUR FUTURE AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY A Presentation by Mindy Truex

Technology and Organizations Technology: can introduce new ways for businesses to compete with each other businesses can compete by creating new products, establishing new enterprises, and developing new customer and supplier relationships creates products that operate faster, are priced more cheaply, are often better quality, or are wholly new can build entire new businesses

Tricks Of The Trade –Businesses that make their information systems easily available may make their customers less likely to take their business elsewhere (e.g., overnight delivery services closely track packages and bills)

Technology and People Three common reactions to new technology:  Cynicism  Naïveté  Frustration

Technology and People Cynicism  cynics feel new technology is overrated and too troublesome to learn  some cynics openly express their doubts  other cynics pretend to be interested when they really aren’t

Technology and People Three common reactions to new technology:  Naïveté –naïve people may be unfamiliar or quite familiar with computers –unfamiliar people tend to think of computers as magic boxes –even those familiar with technology often underestimate the time and difficulty of using technology to generate information

Technology and People Three common reactions to new technology:  Frustration –frustrated users are impatient and irritated about taking time to learn new technology –often these people have too much to do, find manuals difficult to understand, and/or feel stupid

Locating Job Opportunities Online  How It Works  Browsing Jobs Listings  Posting Your Resume  Creating An Agent

How It Works  several Web sites exist to bring together prospective employers and employees  these sites maintain a database of available jobs and a database of resumes  individuals are able to post resumes and to search through available jobs  organizations are able to post job opportunities and to search through individual resumes

Browsing Job Listings  3 well-known job search sites on the Web are hotjobs.com, yahoo!jobs, and monster.com  you can connect to these sites and browse through job opportunities

Posting Your Resume  to make qualifications known to prospective employers,you can post your resume at the job search site

Creating an Agent  you can automate the job search process by creating an agent  the agent monitors new job listings and notifies you by whenever a new job fits you criteria

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