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Mathematics Placement Analysis

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Would you review my résumé’s?

I am only working part time. My new supervisor has reduced my office hours to 15 hours a week. With additional appointments, to tutor students, I am averaging approximately 20 hours a week. She has tried to discharge me; however my previous supervisor would not allow her to do so. Therefore, she has reduced my office hours to circumvent this.

I asked the assistant director of the department to give me a position as a counselor or advisor.

This position currently has a salary of $55,000 a year.

He declined to do so. He said I am too blunt. The truth is he manages this program poorly. The program mostly consists of minority students and is use as a political front to show that minority students are being given …show more content…

This is done to keep the retention rate higher than it would be. Some of these students should leave the program, and return to school when they were ready to attend college.

Most of the students do poorly in their classes. Approximately, only four percent of the students in the program currently have a grade point average of 3.0 or better. Many of the students cannot, even calculate their own grade point averages.

When I implemented the organization's mathematics placement examinations, he turned down my request for student's SAT scores and high school records. I wrote three examinations to test for student's preparedness for different levels of mathematics classes. His reason was that it would be too much effort for the counselors to get this information. I wanted the students' records to give each student the appropriate test.

He has the education and background to manage this organization in an effective and ethical fashion. He has an undergraduate degree is in physics and a Ph.D. in psychology.

My work with this organization on a professional basis is completed.
I will continue to tutor students until I find a new …show more content…

Mechanical engineering positions are mostly in manufacturing sectors. Out-sourcing to India and China has drastically reduced manufacturing in this country, and therefore the number of mechanical engineering positions available has decreased dramatically.

Many of the current tutors are Indians. Actually, a friend of mine, who is Indian, is trying to help me get a position with Cummins Engine Company. He has only been with that corporation for a short amount of time, and therefore it is unlikely he will be able to help me anytime soon.

Another problem is the perception about engineering. Engineering in general is the application of scientific and mathematical principles to practical ends such as the design, manufacture, and operation of efficient and economical structures, machines, processes, and systems. Engineers are applied scientists; they are not technicians.

I currently have two resumes, one for Mechanical Engineering positions, and another one for Systems Administrator

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