A Little Help: Professions
Posted on Thursday, November 20th, 2008 at 6:06am.A recent suggestion for a reader poll rang a bell, and we'd like to post it.
The idea was to survey the MBC readership and identify the fields in which people work.
We'll do that, but there is a tension here in creating the list for the poll between being 0ver-inclusive and under-inclusive. We don't want a list that's like some gubmint form with 75 categories. But we don't want 35% of people to vote "other" if the list is too short.
Here are some ideas for the survey list:
You will note that real estate is not (yet) a specific category. We know that many MBC readers are real estate professionals. In general, we're thinking we should ask everyone to squeeze into a broad category (RE would go into Marketing/Sales).
But perhaps RE calls for its own box, given MBC's content. What do you think?
After a bit of input, the poll will go up with a quick introductory story. Thanks in advance.
The idea was to survey the MBC readership and identify the fields in which people work.
We'll do that, but there is a tension here in creating the list for the poll between being 0ver-inclusive and under-inclusive. We don't want a list that's like some gubmint form with 75 categories. But we don't want 35% of people to vote "other" if the list is too short.
Here are some ideas for the survey list:
- Health Care
- Finance
- Law
- Marketing/Sales
- Entertainment
- Communications
- Sports
- Engineering
- Manufacturing
- Education
- Government
- Nonprofit
You will note that real estate is not (yet) a specific category. We know that many MBC readers are real estate professionals. In general, we're thinking we should ask everyone to squeeze into a broad category (RE would go into Marketing/Sales).
But perhaps RE calls for its own box, given MBC's content. What do you think?
After a bit of input, the poll will go up with a quick introductory story. Thanks in advance.
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