1. Your Personal Competitive Advantage
Mallory De Kovessey
Tim Trettel
Chris Gravatt
Tina Vargas

2. Summarize the efforts you have taken thus far to build an employment record that will lead to job offers after graduation.
Join social networking groups Take internship positions Study Abroad Continuing Education Management level experience in workforce (as management major)

3. Create Service – Knowledge – from education and experience
Considering the first three principles in product implementations, describe one way in which you have a competitive advantage over your classmates. If you do not have such a competitive advantage, describe actions you can take to obtain one.
Create Service –
Knowledge – from education and experience
Experience – on the job training/managerial positions
Skills – acquiring through education and experience.

4. Enhance Service – Through continual education
Keeping up to date on changes in service industry
Team/Employee meetings to make sure strategies and objectives are being met.

5. Differentiate Service –
Stay ahead of the competition
Reduce operating costs of company
Bring new and fresh ideas to the table

6. In order to build your network, you can use your status as a student to approach business professionals. Namely, you can contact them for help with an assignment or for career guidance. Describe two specific ways in which you can use your status as a student and then list in Figure 3-11 to build your network this way.
Advantage 1: Use your status as a student to apply for internships and extra curricular activities
Advantage 2: Creative thinking which will indicate to a potential employer that you have initiative and are grappling with the problems that real businesses have.

7. Describe two ways that you can use student alliances to obtain a job
Describe two ways that you can use student alliances to obtain a job. How can you use information systems to build, maintain, and operate such alliances.
1) Job Fairs which are held on campus
2) Student based clubs and organizations on campus (Phi Beta Lamda)
The biggest way to use information systems to build, maintain, and operate alliances is . Also social networks(Facebook/Twitter)