Discovering consumer services.

Discovering consumer services. The McDonald's McDonald’sfast-food restaurant chain throughout the world; recognized by golden arches. [Am. Culture: Misc.]See : Ubiquity Corporation, recognized as the world's topfast-food restaurant, is part of an industry that is truly everywhereyou look: the consumer service industry. The consumer service industry is where America learns about theworkplace and how to work. The local McDonald's restaurant, theapparel store in the mall, the grocery store down the street and thehotel near the airport provide a large number of jobs for a broadcross-section of America. Teens develop their first job skills and youngadults use the flexibility of our work environment to finance theireducational pursuits. Mature adults keep themselves active and sociallyengaged through consumer service jobs. We have been seen as a transition employer--"I'll workhere until something (or something better) comes along." Ourbusiness challenge is to inform the public that we are that"something better." The consumer service industry has faced the same employee shortagesas every other industry sector. Complicating com��pli��cate?tr. & intr.v. com��pli��cat��ed, com��pli��cat��ing, com��pli��cates1. To make or become complex or perplexing.2. To twist or become twisted together.adj.1. this is that we also haveemployment image issues. We are not viewed as the industry of choice bymost career seekers. They tend to overlook us because what they do knowabout us--developed from the view of a customer--does not appear to bewhat they want to do for a major portion of their lives. Because of demographic and image issues, we must access allpossible sources of employees for our associate and managementpositions. At McDonald's, we do this through a combination oftraining and development options: * Company exclusive: McDonald's Hamburger University Hamburger University is a 130,000 square foot (12,000 m2) training facility of McDonald's Corporation, located at 2815 Jorie Blvd. in Oak Brook, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. * Partnership efforts: The National Retail Institute * School-to-careers efforts: The Hospitality Business Alliance, theeducational partnership of the National Restaurant Association and theAmerican Hotel & Motel Association, the Illinois Illinois, river, United StatesIllinois,river, 273 mi (439 km) long, formed by the confluence of the Des Plaines and Kankakee rivers, NE Ill., and flowing SW to the Mississippi at Grafton, Ill. It is an important commercial and recreational waterway. RetailMerchants' Project READY and McDonald's Youth Apprenticeship apprenticeship,system of learning a craft or trade from one who is engaged in it and of paying for the instruction by a given number of years of work. The practice was known in ancient Babylon, Egypt, Greece, and Rome, as well as in modern Europe and to some extent program. These efforts allow us to train people while simultaneouslybroadcasting the wide range of opportunities that exist in consumerservice, including operations, human resource management, chain supplymanagement and financial systems management. McDonald's has aphenomenal career infrastructure to ensure that the products andservices you want are there when and where you want them. Partnering with educational institutions and initiatives isimperative for the consumer service industry to communicate our messageof opportunity to a wide, diverse audience. Many of the people who havecareers that support the production, distribution, marketing and salesof our products began as the person who rang up sales, handled roomreservations or waited on tables. At McDonald's, many individualswho began flipping FlippingBuying shares in an initial public offering (IPO), and then selling the shares immediately after the start of public trading to turn an immediate profit.flippingburgers Burgers are hamburgers.Burgers may also refer to: Johannes Martinus Burgers, Dutch physicist, namesake of Burgers' equation and brother of W. G. Burgers W. G. Burgers, Dutch crystallographer and brother of J. M. and frying french fries French fryn.A thin strip of potato fried in deep fat. Often used in the plural. now own severalrestaurants. The consumer service industry trains and develops many people fromwithin. Through educational partnerships and by presenting a unifiedfront to the world, we can say "Give us your ability--whatever thatmight be, at whatever stage of life--and we can give you a career." The American Business and Education Partnership is sponsored byACTE ACTE Association for Career and Technical Education (formerly American Vocational Association)ACTE Association of Corporate Travel ExecutivesACTE Approvals Committee for Terminal EquipmentACTE Anodal Closure Tetanus . To learn more about the partnership, call (800) 826-9972.