Week 7 EOC: Profile Statements

Creative and passionate individual with a motivation to learn and experience the opportunities offered in the fashion industry. A fresh perspective to add on with a company with unique work environment and advance as hardworking and focused professional.


Experienced customer service individual with the skills of the popular culture and art that is fashion. A perceiving eye into the deep representation in the way culture affects fashion or trends, and vice versa.


An experienced sales associate that has conquered the workload and more, ready to pursue further up in the fashion industry. Ability of organization and discipline with the skills of fashion and trends to apply my knowledge onto a successful fashion company.

Week 6 EOC: Job Posting for Sweetwater Travel

Seawater Travel is fish guiding company that began in 1995, providing the best fly fishing venues in the world. A family based business with history and experience in fly fishing and traveling that assures our clients the best fisheries and locations for the sport we love. We take care in making sure we undersell and over provide that our customers will see the value in our services and appreciate our destinations.

Responsibilities:

1.  Have great guiding skills in client interaction, how to instruct fly fishing to the expectation of our clients.
2. Have great fly fishing capabilities.
3.  Professionally fashioned and well-groomed appearance.
4.  Guides are expected to have good interpretation of natural and cultural history.
5. An education background or working knowledge of earth sciences, biology, and archeology, etc., is preferred.

Required Skills:

1. Fishing Skills with perfect fly fishing techniques and the knowledge of the entomology, fly selection, where fish hold and why they hold there, and how to fight and land fish.
2.  Must be able to demonstrate your abilities in order to instruct and explain the technique to your clients.
3. Must be able to do the following fishing skills: fly trying, knot tying, fly-casting, 
4. Guiding skills such as: what knots to tie, how to net fish, guiding strategies, drift boat fishing, spotting fish, jet boating, motor maintenance, and advanced river reading.
5. Have CPR and First Aid certification.

Benefits:

1. Access to top quality private water for you and your clients
2. Discounted trips for family and friends
3. Top experience and travel to the best global fisheries
4. Competitive Pay
5. Skill development in the fishing industry.

We plan our client's fishing trips to the very detail of the trip in order to find the very best location and provide them with the very best experience. We have explored through the best areas such as: Mongolia, Alaska, the Brazilian Amazon, Venezuela, Bolivia, Russia, British Columbia, New Zealand, Ecuador, Chile, Argentina, Florida, Bahamas, Mexico, Nicaragua, ad Costa Rica. We also see the value in caring and helping protect fisheries around the world. For most people, Fly Fishing is a hobby but being a guide is profession we would love to add onto our team!

Sources:
http://www.sweetwatertravel.com/site/home/our_company.html
http://www.sweetwatertravel.com/site/guide-school.html
http://www.theflyfisher.com/guide_service/employment.cfm

Week 4 EOC: Physcial Attractiveness

Physical attractiveness is a unquestionable factor that is used to select employees in many hospitality organizations, such as front-of-the-house servers and hotel front desk agents. This is a fact that can mean if you don't or do get the job. It all depends on the type of business you are applying for. Hospitality companies have certain brand image and reputation, if you don't fit that image and environment, it would be better for both parties to not work together.


"hospitality managers conduct detailed position analyses and task breakdowns to identify precisely the skills their workers currently need and then create effective training programs to teach these skills."


 Tattoos, for example, are a controllable factor and decision you place on how it will affect your professional career. Especially if you have it inked in a visible place, and you are applying in a company where the environment is obviously the opposite. They probably have an opinion of tattoos and the way their employees should look (because, let's face it, you would be representing their company and they don't like to risk that). It is very complicated topic because the fact is that it shouldn't be about the looks. We shouldn't care on the physical appearances and only focus on the internal traits that will benefit both the employee and the company.


"Any manager seeking to find pretrained employees simply by listing detailed skill requirements in their position advertisements are likely to be sorely disappointed, because in most hospitality operations, the manner in which work is completed varies greatly."


Yet an uncontrollable factor such as scars are a different story. Scars were something that just happened, and tattoos was a choice. Their skills should be the focus, because they are the normal just like everybody else. People with scars shouldn't have to be rejected just because of their looks. That situation could easily turn for the worst, and the person could sue the company.


"Questions about physical traits like height and weight have been found to violate the law because they eliminated disproportionate numbers of female, Asian-American, and Spanish-surnamed applicants."


 All in all, it would depend on your personality and the way you would be able to effectively (and emotionally satisfied) work with the company that you are applying for.


Works Cited:
Hayes, David K.. Human Resources Management in the Hospitality Industry. Wiley, 2008. VitalBook file.

Week 3 EOC: Workplace Fairness

 Websites like the Workplace Fairness has created a more safer playing field in the workforce. They provide information and help to employees with internet access. A center up to date on sources to know what your right are and who to reach if they aren't met.

NELA, the sponsor for this site, is the country's largest organization of lawyers that primarily represent employees that experience discrimination, illegal workplace harassment, wrongful termination, denial of employee benefits, and other employment-related issues. This company works toward making sure that employees have to be paid at least a living wage in an environment free of discrimination, harassment, retaliation, and wrongful employment decisions. The corporation shares the same values and mission.

" In advocating for employee rights, NELA participates as amicus curiae to provide our unique perspective in significant employment cases. We have created a strong and respected Amicus Program—since 1985, we have written or signed on to more than 250 amicus briefs in the U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals, U.S. District Courts, state courts, and before government agencies."

The Workplace Fairness site offers a wide range of resources for anyone who seeks their help. Some of these sources include: Employee Right Groups, lawyers, and legal services.

"Workplace Fairness creates and maintains the most comprehensive, online one-stop-shop for free information about workers' rights. We capture the power of technology to: educate workers, employers, and legal services and community organizations; foster a community of advocates who believe that fairness works; and promote the fair treatment of workers through public policy."

Some big issues that I feel anyone would need jobs, wages, and healthcare. Three huge factors that people worry about when finding and in employment. Managers can address these through making sure that their policies and issues in their companies are updated and satisfactory towards their employees.

"Working together, professionals and citizens concerned with issues of workplace fairness more effectively build community awareness of workplace issues and promote progressive changes in employment law, policies, and practices."


Source Links:
https://www.nela.org/NELA/index.cfm?event=showPage&pg=pressroom
http://www.workplacefairness.org./resources
http://www.workplacefairness.org./the-issues