Leadership

Apple is a public corporation, which means that their stock is available to the public. The current Ceo of Apple is Tim Cook. Tim also serves on the Board of Directors. Tim was named the Ceo in August 2011. There are eleven executives of Apple, including Angela Ahrendts, who is the Senior Vice President of retail, and Jonathon Ive, who is the Chief Design Officer. There are five Vice Presidents, including Steve Dowling, who is Vice President of Communications, and Isabel Ge Mahe, who is the Vice President and Managing Director of Greater China. There are also eight board of directors, including Robert Iger, who is the Ceo of Walt Disney, and Albert Gore Jr, who is the former Vice President of the USA.

Some of the challenges of managing Apple are that major companies are now making phones now so Apple needs to be constantly one step ahead of their competitors. It is either your team Android or team IPhone. Samsung is constantly creating new ideas and new phones, so Apple needs to be quicker and smarter than them. Google is the world’s most successful company and they are now making phones, which is a huge problem to Apple. Apple needs to continue to make new ideas for their phones or they will lose customers. Tim Cook has to be constantly in charge and needs to make sure nothing goes wrong in the company.

Some job opportunities are corporate, where you can decide what the next step is for Apple. You can work at an Apple store, where you sell the products. You can even work at home as an advisor, where you can answer questions. You can work at Apple while still being at college. You can be an advisor or an intern. Working at Apple, you get amazing benefits. The salary is between $9-$15 an hour for salespeople. Software engineers make around $100k a year. While working at Apple, you get discounts on the products, which is great because the products are expensive. Apple has a yearly beer-bash for its employees, where big celebrities perform. Apple is a drug-free environment and they thrive on diversity and inclusion.

Link: https://www.apple.com/jobs/us/

It is a grueling hiring process to work for Apple. On average, it includes three screening calls, five facetime interviews, and a trip to Cupertino for five two-person interviews that last a whole day. The facetime interviews are thirty minutes long and take three weeks. Apple believes it’s a good place to work because it relies on diversity and inclusion and they depend on contributions from the women leaders. They welcome Veterans to work for them, through their experience. They will hire anyone from the LGBTQ community to the blind community.

Link: https://www.apple.com/diversity/

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