E-commerce has revolutionized the way business is done in today"s market. However, customers are at
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of purchasing false products or poor quality items. Many
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the distance between customers and send the wrong goods and lure clients to buy goods recommended as great
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, but when customers receive these items, they find themselves falling into traps.
Many dangers,
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by the obscurity of e-commerce, involve the products and the electronic transaction. From the buyer"s
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, dangers include purchasing products not measuring
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what was previously advertised in the website. Another risk is identity theft. Since electronic transactions are needed to complete the purchase, hackers may acquire
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information about the user to make other purchases.
There are still honest businesses that sell their products and services but gain a very small profit by
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the prices of their products because they have a lot of competition in the Internet. That is
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one of the hazards of e-commerce that should be considered is the bankruptcy of businesses since profit is low if they need
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their goods as cheaply as possible.
Blue collar and government jobs are among the most
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careers for U.S. graduates, according to U.S. News magazine"s 2008 Best Careers report. U.S. employers are increasingly offshoring professional jobs. This means less jobs
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college-graduate skills, the magazine says.
As in many other countries, U.S. high school students are told that college is the
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. So there"s a growing
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of skilled people in jobs that don"t require a college education. But the report also says that some rewarding blue-collar careers, such as technical work in the biomedical equipment and security systems sectors, are more
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to college graduates. These are more knowledge-based than the usual blue-collar jobs.
Government is becoming an employer of
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. Corporations, fueled by pressures to compete globally, continue to get ever
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. Non-profit organizations are increasingly strapped for cash. Government is able to pay employees well,
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their practices are economically sound, the magazine says. The report also indicates that social
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may be the enemy of contentment in career. People are flocking in greater numbers to careers in the law, medicine and architecture. Yet recent surveys of job satisfaction in those professions
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a less-than-rosy picture.