The company I have chosen is Target.

19. The career services center at your school is conducting a series of brief presentations on companies both local and national/international that students might want to learn about as potential employees. Your business communication teacher has gotten wind of this initiative and has offered to have her class prepare and deliver some of these as their report assignments. The director of the center has enthusiastically agreed! In this pretend scenario, you'll be preparing an oral report about a company of your choice for students at your school who are entering the job market. Your instructor and the director of your career services center are your secondary audiences. Carefully plan your report to be between 8 and 10 minutes long. Support your talk with PowerPoint slides that have the following: - An introductory slide to identify your company - An overview slide, listing the topics your talk is going to cover - A slide for each main section of your talk - A closing slide with the main point you want to leave with people The following kinds of information might be appropriate to include in your talk: Page 541 - Company's outputs (products/services); the industry to which it belongs - Company's size (dollars in sales/revenue; number of employees), ownership, financial health - Company's plants/facilities/location - Company's history (how founded? when? by whom? main achievements and/or crises in the company's history?) - Company's structure (if possible, include an organizational chart at the end of the report and refer to it in your report) - Company's employees (labor force, unionized or not, kinds of expertise, values) - Company's position in its industry or main competitors; company's market/customers - Company's culture/missions/policies/management style/work environment - Current problems/challenges facing this company - Any unique traits of this company or industry that are important to mention to the prospective employee Include at least two Web and two non-Web references in your report (that is, material in a publication or database)