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"Why all the marketing-based tasks?"
LisaPles 740 desperate attention whore postings
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03-29-06, 01:45 PM (EST)
 
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2. "RE: Why all the marketing-based tasks?" |
I agree that all the tasks seem to be related to marketing. It would be nice for people who have concentrated their education in other fields to have an opportunity to show their skills.
I think that the concentration on marketing is due to the fact that so many companies have contacted the show wanting to have their products showcased. Obviously they pay money for the advertising within the show. It is probably getting increasingly hard for them to turn the $$$ down.
I agree with you that a better balance would make the tasks more challenging and the show much more interesting.
Have you given thought to what they could do for a good "finance" challenge? I think it would be great. The candidates would probably be freaking out!
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Hoobie 569 desperate attention whore postings
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03-29-06, 02:21 PM (EST)
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3. "RE: Why all the marketing-based tasks?" |
That's a good question. I haven't really thought about it, but it seems that they've exhausted all of the different mediums (media?) of marketing: commercials, print ads, billboards. I guess they could still do a radio spot.I'm pursuing my MBA, and the courses are all very comprehensive - we also have to do a simulation where we build a budget, there is a computer generated barrage of scenarios to which we have to respond. That? Would be boring for a TV show though. Maybe something where they have to analyze financial statements of the different public companies and present a review of how the operations can benefit if other items are manipulated (Accounts receivable, capital expenditures, etc.). It's pretty in-depth, so it might have to be for the finale. But again, it might not make for compelling television. 
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tinkerer 90 desperate attention whore postings
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03-30-06, 11:45 AM (EST)
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LAST EDITED ON 03-30-06 AT 11:47 AM (EST)I'm really glad you started this thread, because I was thinking of starting one just like it. The show is supposed to be about the fitness of a candidate to take over a $500,000 job in a Manhattan real estate firm. So what do we see? Do we see people contacting backers, or getting a financial or architectural team together? No. We see candidates walking around a Sam's Club in New Jersey trying to talk customers into upping their membership status. The team with the most upped memberships wins. Hey-that's a minimum wage type job. What is going on here?
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6. "RE: Why all the marketing-based tasks?" |
Hilarious...
Why not have them go into some corporation and come up with a structural plan to improve their organization? That would be boring, I guess. But it would also have more relevance to the position they are "interviewing" for.
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