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Occupation Survey Winners
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Following are the winning occupation survey entries for October, 2008, as
chosen by Vault's editorial team. Winning survey entries are chosen by
our editors for their detailed information and are judged to be the most
helpful to the Vault audience when evaluating career options.
The entry chosen as the Best Survey each month receives a $250 prize,
each of 5 runners-up receives 2 free Vault guides and a free 1-year
Vault Gold subscription.
Vault also chooses monthly winners for its Employer Surveys and College and Graduate School Surveys, each of which offers a $250 prize,
and 5 runners-up who win 2 free Vault guides and a free 1-year
Vault Gold subscription.
Winners are chosen at Vault's sole discretion and the decision of our judges is final. Note that by highlighting these surveys we are not in any way endorsing
or making any statement about their accuracy -- just the surveys' level
of detail and specificity.
These surveys are not independently verified
by Vault's researchers and editors and solely express the opinions of
the survey takers themselves, which may or may not be valid. These
surveys are also in no way endorsed or approved by the schools
described therein.
We thank all of our survey respondents for their input.
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Account Executive
Survey Excerpt: I am primarily responsible for bringing in new business
clients. This involves prospecting, presenting and closing
sales primarily for AR management and collection services. My
day is spent as a combination of prospecting to set
appointments, making sales presentations and following up with
prospects in my pipeline.
Prospecting can be any
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Principal Engineer B (for Environmental Compliance)
Survey Excerpt: Management and Pollution Control: See to it that environmental
laws are complied e.g. clean air act, hazardous waste control
act, clean water act and solid waste management act of the
Philippines. I do H2S monitoring, sound level monitoring if
these parameters comply with the ambient requirements not to
affect the nearby communities. We take r
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IT Project Manager
Survey Excerpt: PART I: CAREER PROFILE OF IT PROJECT MANAGERS
a) Project Manager Overview
A Project Manager is responsible for managing the resources of
large projects. For Techical Careers, can mean managing large
Software Development projects, Networking projects, IT
installations or conversions, or any other function where
business and technology needs hav
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Global Supply Chain Co-op
Survey Excerpt: The flexibility for this position was great. There was no clocking in or out. If
I wanted to come in at 6:30 I did, if I had a late night the night before, I
might not come in until 9am or so. As long as I put in my 40 hours for the week
and didn't miss any meetings and accomplished all of my responsibilities, I was
OK. The cafeteria there was actu
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Senior Accountant
Survey Excerpt: In 2002, I started in public accounting at a Big 4 firm for
$39K, plus a $2K signing bonus. I left in 2004 for a small
firm, at $46K. I started in 2005 at Fortune 1000 company for
$46K plus a $2K signing bonus. I left that company in 2008,
after being promoted to a Senior Accountant, at $59,500. I
started at a larger company for $65K in 20
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Program Technician
Survey Excerpt: The majority of my time here is spent processing farm loan
applications, following up on loan servicing tasks such as
payments, reminders to provide annual financial information and
continuation of security documents. I also make farm visits for
security checks, give general information of our loan programs
to the public, both in office traff
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