Research a specific career from the Supply Chain & Operations field used by Air Canada selected in Part I to find out more about that career and its compensation. The career title must come from one of 2 sources. A) A Supply Chain Career listed in the following link SCMA - NOC Codes or B) The 10 OM decision areas found in Table 1.2 (pg. 9) of your text.

This must be a Supply Chain career, not Marketing or Finance.

Choose a Supply Chain career that interests you and look up the NOC code from the Careers in Supply Chain link under Research on pg. 1.

Research the responsibilities of that career from the NOC code or from a current Canadian job posting for your chosen company.

Research the salary expectations for the job posting in Step B. (See Salary Expectations below for details)

You will be starting a typed report to be submitted to your instructor in class and to the Assignment Dropbox which:

1. Includes a title page.

2. In the first paragraph lists and briefly describes the chosen company, its main products and/or services, the job title of the selected posting and its NOC code.

3. Describes a minimum of 8 job responsibilities and/or requirements of the career selected. Can be in point form.

4. Identifies and explains 2 job responsibilities from 3) above that you would find very interesting.

5. Identifies and explains 2 job responsibilities from 3) above that you would find not attractive.

6. Identifies this jobs potential salaries taken from at least 3 sources. Present them in a table and ensure you have included references in the writeup. Figure 1 shows a possible salary comparison table.

Glassdoor Website	$45,000
Ontario Job Futures Website	$48,480
Payscale	$62,000

Figure 1: Comparative Salaries for a Retail Buyer Position (NOC: 6222) Sources: Glassdoor.ca (2017), Ontario Ministry of Advanced Education & Skills Development (2017) and Payscale (2017)

7. Explain possible reasons for the similarities and/or differences in the salaries from these three sources?

8. Is this a job that you would be interested in pursuing? Why or why not?

9. Would you accept this salary if the job was offered to you? Why or why not?

Operations Management Decisions

Using the company chosen in Part 1, research, from company websites and/or business articles, how your company uses any 6 of the 10 Critical Decisions of Operations Management (found in Table. 1.2 of the text). Your instructor wants to learn something unique about your chosen company for each of the 6 decisions researched.

Add a section (about 2 pgs.) to the report started in Part 1) Step D) that includes one paragraph for each critical decision chosen and researched in Step A. Remember to report on how your chosen company uses these decisions. Descriptions of the decisions will not be marked.

Part 3) Mission, Strategies and Competitive Advantages

Again using the same company chosen for Part 1), research and provide the companys Mission Statement.

Research 3 strategies (or more) and explain how your company uses these internally to accomplish their mission statement.

Linking to the strategies explained in Part B, describe what your chosen company uses externally for their competitive advantage(s).

Add a section (about 1.5 2 pgs.) to your report for Parts 1) and 2) that details the results from your research in steps A, B, and C above.