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full range o f services— includ­
ing insurance, investm ent bank­
in g ,
and
s a v in g s — in
m ultidisciplinary team s, on a
g lo b a l
sc a le .
Com panies are looking to hire
college grads with proven abil­
ity in sales and inform ation
analysis. Grow ing occupations
include system s analysts, ad­
ju sters, and exam iners: these
positions require fewer hands-
on skills and m ore interaction
with inform ation, especially the
suits. It’s also extremely demand­
ing—ten-hour days are the norm.
While you can be sure that pro­
grammers and engineers are the
hottest commodities in the hiring
market, there is also demand for
new hires in business develop­
ment, marketing, research, and
operations— especially content
creation, which can be anything
from writing and editing text
to producing music or video.
Internet industry employees
face less stability than peers
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Focus on Careers
United States, so there are plenty
o f jobs. Most opportunities are
civil service positions at the
m any g o v e rn m e n t a g e n c ie s
w hich exist at federal, state,
and local levels— you have to
pass a civil service test before
applying for a position. This
se c to r has shrunk in recen t
years, thanks to tighter federal
budgets, but there are still plenty
o f government and other politi­
cal positions available to job
seekers, with a wide variety o f
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Real Estate
Even though there is a lot o f
money to be made in this indus­
try, one should not enter it ex­
p ectin g to becom e the next
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To The Next Stage
Working for Wells Fargo means working in an inclusive
environm ent w ith talented managers driven to the very best.
We are currently seeking motivated team players who
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Carpenter Anne Galisky specializes in residential
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potential earnings o f an Entry level/Journey level person after
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ability to gather and m anipulate
inform ation strategically. Fur­
therm ore, the insurance indus­
try— like all industries— is hun­
gry for techies as com puters
play an ever m ore integral part
in business processes.
Want to work abroad? There
are lots o f opportunity in insur­
ance. Europe and Canada are still
a focus for claims processing and
investment and actuarial services,
but Asian markets— particularly
Japan, Taiwan, and South Ko­
rea—are heating up even faster.
If international financial markets
are something you understand,
and you speak a foreign language,
you’re someone insurance com­
panies will want to talk to.
Internet and New
Media
The outlook for the job seeker
mirrors the outlook for the indus­
try as a whole: high levels o f both
excitement and risk. Those who
choose careers here will have
unique opportunities to create an
industry as they build their ca­
reers.
The industry is very young, as
are most o f the employees. The
culture is casual. People interact
almost exclusively on a first-name
basis, and they almost never wear
who enter more established
industries.
Investors are growing in­
creasingly anxious to see re­
turns on their new media in­
vestments, and if the specu­
lative cash bubble bursts be­
fore the industry becomes
widely profitable, lots o f com­
panies will go out o f busi­
ness, and lots o f people will
lose their jobs. And even if
profitability comes before the
money men bolt, it’s only a
matter of time before the in­
dustry consolidates, which
will also mean fewer jobs.
For the time being, though,
companies are hiring like mad,
and new media— particularly
in the context o f the Web—
rem ains a charm ed space
where anything seems pos-
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* To earn a 60-credit certifi­
cate through PCC's Multi-
media Program, call the Cas­
cade Campus at 503/978-
5672.
Non-profit and
Government
Combined, the nonprofit
and government sectors ac­
count for 20 percent o f all
econom ic activ ity in the
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