Contacts! 

Managing your contacts is critical, whether you’re looking for a job, trying to advance in your career, starting a business, or planning for your future!  In fact, 80 percent of available jobs are never even advertised, with more than half of all employees finding jobs through networking.  Social networks have connected and exposed us to more people than ever before. With all the online friends and followers you’ve accumulated, it’s become increasingly complicated to make sense of your social graph and use it to your advantage. It’s also never been more important to build your contact database, organize it, and then put it to work for you. The old adage “it’s not what you know, it’s who you know,” is true, so consider your contacts extremely valuable to your future success in business.

For this project, you are going to create a database of your contacts - personal, business, and family.  Rather than creating this database from scratch though, you are going to use the "Contacts" template that is available.  Therefore, the structure of the database is ready for you to input your information.  This should save you a lot of time.  However, you will need to put considerable effort into gathering the necessary information for your contacts, including pictures whenever possible.

 

As you gather your contact information, you need to include a minimum of 25 contacts and must have some contacts that fit into each category - personal, business, family (make a "relationship" field to get this to work).  Even though a contact might be a family member, it might also be beneficial to include the company they work for, job title, etc. so that as you plan for your future and begin to network you can maximize the use of the contacts you have. The more information you can include about each contact the better!  Some ideas for contacts might include:

  • Personal - friends, the parent or guardian of a friend, volunteer work coordinator
  • Business - teacher, counselor, religious leader, orthodontist, pediatrician, part-time job supervisors
  • Family - parents, aunts, uncles, older cousins, grandparents

After your database is complete, prepare a minimum of five queried reports that shares significant information and classifies or sorts information is a logical manner.  Then create one additional report that uses "grouping" and group the report by the category of the contact - personal, business, or family.  Please make sure each report it titled appropriately - we should be able to tell from the title what each report is showing, how it is queried, and/or how it is grouped.

 

Take "screen shots" of each report and paste these to a Word document titled Contacts Database.  Save the Word document as [Last Name] Contact DB Reports.  Upload to Edmodo to submit.