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SUNDAY, JULY 24, 2011 THE GLOBE GAZETTE D1 Sunday Business See more BUSINESS NEWS online at www.globegazette.com Matching the skills to the job is key to hiring, getting hired of applicants who have had several job changes in a short period of time. i do understand that life circumstances sometimes call for job change's, and we give applicants an opportunity to explain gaps in employment. Kathi Kadolph, vice president of human resources at Clear Lake Bank and Trust also looks at a persons job history position and length of time on the job. Abrahamson questions applicants who have worked at several places in a short amount of time. A red flag to me is if someone has a different job every three months," she said.

Finding someone who fits in the with company is also important. Companies really want someone that See HIRING, D2 By LAURA BIRD laura.birdglobegazette.com MASON CITY Looking for a job? One of the biggest things companies look at when hiring is a persons skills and qualifications. At NIACC we look for a person who first meets the knowledge, skill and ability requirements of the position, said Shelly Schmit, vice president of organizational developmenthuman resources at North Iowa Area Community College. For all of our instructional positions qualifications are outlined in the Iowa Code and must be strictly adhered to. While other companies might not have strict codes to comply with, they, too, look at skills first.

Primarily what were doing is hiring for the skills and qualifications for what the primary job duties are," said Holly Eichmann, manager of Express Professionals, Mason City. AtHy- Schmit Eichmann Vee East qualifications depend on the type of position. At Hy-Vee the positions vary, said Lieh Anne Abrahamson, human resource manager for Hy-Vee East, Mason City. We have some where theres no experience required and where some require a college degree or medical background. Along with qualifications businesses look at education and work experience.

Work history is also important," Schmit said. Im always a little bit leery iFraiadk Emtiore Apple stores sire being feM Etta 1 (j Names News IN BUSINESS KIMBERLY BOYD of US Bank Home Mortgage was named June Purchase Leader for Iowa, her third month this year to receive the recognition. A mortgage loan officer, she has been an originator for 10 years. She specializes in conventional, FHA.VAand first-time homebuyers mortgage loans. She can be reached at her office at 124 N.

Washington Ave. in Mason City, email Kimberly.Boydusbank.com, going to her website at mtg.usbank.comkimber-ly-boyd or by calling her at 641-494-2169. She lives in Clear Lake with her husband, Jasper, and their children, Stephanie, Mackenzie, Spencer and Parker. ADAM LUEBKE is joining Waldorf Colleges music department as the new director of choral activities this fall. I am looking forward to working with the students.

When I came for my interview I really enjoyed connecting with them," said Luebke, who will also serve as an assistant professor of music at the Forest City college. I think it is a wonderful tradition to be part of. Originally from Pennsylvania, Luebke is interested in continuing the a cappella tradition at Waldorf. The college has the second-oldest collegiate a cappella choir in the nation. He would also like to add music of major composers, other cultures and some contemporary music.

Before coming to Waldorf, Luebke taught music and directed choirs at Northland College in Wisconsin. He recently completed his doctorate in music education and choral conducting from Florida State University. Luebke earned his masters degree from Westminster Choir College in New Jersey and a bachelors from St. Olaf College in Minnesota. He also spent a few years in Lexington, Ky where he taught high school choral music and worked as a church musician.

Luebke first started singing with the American Boychoir with which he toured the Czech Republic, Poland and across North America. He also traveled throughout North America and Europe with the St. Olaf Choir, singing at cathedrals, concert halls and churches of all kinds. Despite of a history with big cities, Luebke said he and his wife, Sarah, are looking forward to life in Forest City. Titonka Savings Bank in Titonka, Forest City and Thompson, has appointed LORI J.

BERTRAM as vice president and senior loan officer. She is working out of the Titonka office. Bertram came to Titonka Savings Bank after serving as senior vice presidentregional manager of commer-cialag banking with MidWestOne Bank of Iowa City, specializing in agricultural lending. She managed the agricultural loan portfolio of six branch offices. Bertram began her career with Farm Credit Services and then was vice president and ag loan officer with Iowa Falls State Bank from May 1996 to December 1999.

She then joined First American Bank in Fort Dodge as vice president of business banking prior to joining MidWestOne Bank. Bertram is a graduate of Iowa State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in agricultural business. She has received her Masters of Business Administration degree from the University of Northern Iowa and is a graduate of the Iowa School of Banking and Graduate School of Banking at 0 'rado. Bertram graduated ti North Iowa High School and grew up on the family farm near Buffalo Center. Her husband, Matt, is working for TDS Automation based InWaverty.

They will be relocating to the Buffalo Center area from their home near Whitten. KSMQ PUBLIC TELEVISION In Austin, has been honored with a national Telly Award. KSMQ Legacy Producer Maria Bartholdi created a segment for the station's weekly series, "Off 90," featuring stories about local people, places, history and southern Minnesota's unique culture. The Telly award-winning episode Is scheduled to air at 7 p.m. Thursday and 5 p.m.

Saturday. Names News continued on Page D2. XL AP photo Customers browse products at a shop masquerading as a bona fide Apple store in downtown Kunming in southwest Chinas Yunnan province. China, long known for producing counterfeit consumer gadgets, software and brand name clothing, has reached a new piracy milestone, fake Apple stores. Even employees think they are working for the real thing BEIJING (AP) It looks almost exactly like a sleek Apple store.

Sales assistants in blue T-shirts with the companys logo chat with customers. Signs advertising the iPad 2 hang on the white walls. Outside, the famous logo sits next to the words Apple Store" one of the few clues that the thing is a fake. China, long known for producing counterfeit consumer gadgets, software and brand name clothing, has reached a new piracy milestone -fake Apple stores. An American who lives in Kunming in southern Yunnan province said Thursday that she and her husband stumbled on three shops masquerading as bona fide Apple stores in the city a few days ago.

She took photos and posted them on her BirdAbroad blog. The 27-year-old blogger, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the setup of the stores was so convincing that the employees themselves seemed to believe they worked for Apple. It had the classic Apple store winding staircase and weird upstairs sitting area. The employees were even wearing those blue T-shirts with the chunky Apple name tags around their necks," she wrote on her blog. "But some things were just not right: the stairs were poorly made.

The walls hadnt been painted properly. Apple never writes Apple Store on its signs it just puts up the glowing, iconic fruit. A worker at the fake Apple store on Zhengyi Road in Kunming, which most of the photos of the BirdAbroad blog show, told The Associated Press that they are an Apple store" before hanging up. But the three stores are not among the authorized resellers listed on Apple Inc.s website. The maker of the AP they may sell real Apple products, some of those products were not imported through legal means." The proliferation of the fake stores underlines the slow progress that Chinas government is making in countering a culture of rampant piracy and widespread production of bogus goods that is a major irritant relations with trading partners.

Chinas Commerce Minister promised American executives earlier this year that the latest of several crackdowns on product piracy would deliver lasting results. China's official Xinhua News Agency reported this month that police arrested more than 9,000 suspects in a nine-month anti-piracy See APPLE FRAUD, photo i in A2 CP Business Editor: Tom Thoma 641-421-0566 800-421-0524 tom.thomaglobegazette.com www.globegazette.com I.