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For more information call 753-673.6 Bridal Faire Serving Brides Since 1985 It's the hard-knock life Hints to finding employment in Logan The summer is over and Aggies are back at school once again. This means some students will be looking for jobs, especially incoming freshmen. Finding a job can be difficult because of the current circumstances of the national and local economies. Students have competition to deal with, and some places just plain aren't hiring. Some students may even know someone who has graduated and has been waiting months to get a job. When we hear it's tough to get a job we might ask ourselves this question: What can I do to get a job in Logan? • The first thing students can do is research to see what is available. The classified ads in several newspapers are a good place to start. Of course, in today's world, it's also convenient to look and apply for jobs online. One website students can visit is www.indeed.com . The university also has a great website, www.usu.edu/studemp, that lets students know about on-campus and off-campus jobs. Many of the jobs that are on the university website are also located on a job board in the hallway by the financial aid office of the TSC. • Some students are trying to find a job in their career. This is where Career Services at USU will be able to help. In fact, for those students who haven't decided what career they're interested in, it may be a good idea to stop by Career Services and get a career coach. This coach can help individuals choose a major and career, obtain an internship, prepare for graduate school and tests and help receive a job after graduation. • A career coach can also help individuals looking for a job by helping students figure out how to negotiate their salary and job offers. A coach can help prepare for interviews. Also, coaches will help build a network of alumni and employers. All these things can help when trying to get a job and obtaining the best benefits from that job. Melissa Schaeffer, associate director at Career Services, said students need to use all types of resources when looking for a job. She said they should also be proactive in connecting with the employers to communicate an interest in working for that employer. "People searching for jobs should research employers carefully in order to identify the skills they can use to solve a need or a problem for that employer, " Schaeffer said. • The more students know about an employer's needs, the more individuals can impress them at the interview and on the job with certain knowledge and skills. If students want to set up an appointment with a career coach at career services, they can call 797-7777 or visit the website www.usu.edu/ career. 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This enables the interviewee to sound knowledgeable and interested in the company. • Two other tips for job interviews are be prepared to answer tough questions and take your time to answer them. Students need to remember they don't have to hurry through the questions asked. It's more important that students answer them correctly than answer them quickly. Information gathered by Ronald Wallace Apple: iPhone imitations created continued from page 6 Regardless of whether Apple's own information leaks are intentional, the company has become synonymous with this method of building and sustaining hype, keeping consumers guessing what new features the latest models will offer. Wong's calculated buzz-building hasn't necessarily resulted in huge sales in the world's largest cell phone market, estimated at 800 million users. Meizu controls only 0.9 percent of China's fragmented sector for smart phones — high-end devices that can handle e-mail and Internet access. Still, that puts it only 0.1 percentage point behind Palm, a name-brand foreign competitor. "If you look at (their phones) from a specifications-level perspective, they really aren't any different from your typical knock-off" iPhone, Ziegler said. "But they are able to cast a sort of mystery over their products that is very intriguing." It's probably why Meizu commands a dedicated following. Meizume, an unofficial fan site, has 39,500 members spread across the globe, from the United States to Scandinavia, Eastern Europe and Asia. Carl Pei, founder of the Meizu fan site in Sweden, said many fans are drawn to Meizu as a rejection of what Pei calls Apple's ecosystem": iTunes and the Apple applications store, which is the only legal way to buy programs for the iPhone or iPod Touch. "Some people would like more freedom" from Apple, Pei said. "If you buy an iPod, for example, you (can only) use iTunes to add music to it." Then, of course, there's the price. An iPhone 4 costs about $870 in China. The Meizu equivalent is a little more than $300. "Cost is the most important thing," said Wang Dawei, a 23year-old recent university graduate who was window shopping at the Meizu store in Beijing. Wong founded Meizu in 2003 and released its first product, the M6 MP3 player, three years later. Although the device was conventionally regarded as a copy of the iPod Nano, it included innovative features such as a vertical touch strip in place of Apple's standard tracking wheel. Meizu's first iPhone clone, the M8, came out in 2009 and generated unanticipated positive feedback. An Engadget review acknowledged the device's closeness to its inspiration but also called it "surprisingly good." Excitement is building online about the release of an M9 in the coming months. Little personal information is known about Wong even though he maintains a presence on his company's public message board, answering users' questions and receiving their feedback. Meizu representatives declined to comment for this report, and Wong has never spoken on the record to foreign media. Chinese magazine Business Story reported last year that Wong had never finished high school. One of the only photos of Wong available to the public shows a youthful man in a bare office, dwarfed by his towering leather computer chair and with an ancient clunker of a computer on his empty desk. Whether Wong's company will break out from its cult success is unknown. But there's already one sign that the company must be doing something right. Knockoff versions of the still-to-be released M9 have been spotted in Chinese cell phone markets at too-good-to-be-true prices, according to knockoff phone website M8cool.com . "It says something about Meizu," Pei said. "It's strange that people want to imitate a product that isn't that well known." " |