1. Complete the career assessment survey at Career Guide . After completing the survey questions, answer the following (based
on the results):
a) What were your two top career
interest areas? Indicate the "letter" and "title".
b) What are occupations associated with your career interest
areas?
c) Do the results make sense for you?
2. Many useful consumer decision/financial calculators
are available at selected web sites. One excellent site for such
calculators is (Financenter.com).
Select two calculators provided at this site. The financial calculators
are found under "Analyzers" Answer the questions (fill in the blanks) as
realistically as possible for each calculator.
a) Which
two calculators did you select?
b) Briefly summarize
the results of each calculation.
3. Select a product such as a CD, book, video, etc. (by
author or title if desired) which begins with the first letter of your last
name. Use one of the price robots (or shopping agents),
(Consumer World, Dealtime, MySimon, PriceGrabber or Pricescan) to find
the cheapest merchant on the Internet selling this product. Be sure the
price includes shipping and handling.
a) list the name
of the product
b) list the e-commerce merchant and the
price for the product
c) list the name of the shopping
agent you used to find the lowest price merchant
4. Pick a new car you might be interested in
purchasing. List the make and the model. Using the
Edmund's Guide, determine the
dealer's invoice cost for this car. In addition, list a competing model
for this car.
5. Use the BizRate.com site ( http://www.bizrate.com/) to answer the following:
a) How are the
store ratings obtained by Bizrate?
b) List the rating
score of a company whose name begins with the first letter of your first or last name. List the name of the company and the main products it sells.
