Actor's agent and ambulance service

Actor's Agent

Most actors’ agents are simply called talent agents. They represent people appearing in television, film, theater, radio, industrial, commercials and promotional work. Talent agents can specialize in any of these areas as well as voice-over work, stand-up comics, singers, dancers or magicians. Agents can also choose to provide talent for the modeling and print industries.

Agents recruit talent to represent, usually working alongside other people at the talent agency to amass a stable of actors with the sought after “look” or age range. Usually, aspiring actors send their head shot, resume and film reel to the agency for submission, and the agent decides who they want to meet with.

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Actor's agents now must use a lot of ICT in the 21st century as they need to know where to look for the jobs, sending emails, contacting the actor and many more. They need to find the best auditions for their client so they can make as much money as they can as they only get a 10% cut of the job.

Agents can have as many clients as they want but they will have to keep up with all the pressure from each client and get them the best auditions you can find which might be hard if you have similar actors and they both get put up, they might not be happy with this and they could fire the agents.

Agents in 1987 were very differnet from the agents in the present day, they had lower means of communication, find auditions was a lot more demanding and very stressful.

Agents would find a lot of audidtion through a news papers and letters, this would consist of telling the agents the auditions and what bthe role would consist of and the type of people they are looking for. Agents would call  the company and tell them that they think they have the right person for the job and they would offer them their clients CV.

Agents cummicating was a lot longer to do and getting information around was a lot harder than it is now, now you can send a email straight away or text and get a reply almost instantly.

Ambulance case study 

The ambulance service is not just about responding to a 999 call with an emergency ambulance crew. There is also a team of people with different roles who provide the vital back-up, as well as the non-emergency patient transport service that is so valued by the community.

Before the accident and emergency crews take to the road, other members of the trained team take the 999 call, decide rapidly what action is needed and then ensure that it happens.

If the situation is critical, one of the control staff might have to talk a distressed caller through a lifesaving procedure or collect more essential information as the ambulance travels to the scene.

http://www.nhscareers.nhs.uk/explore-by-career/ambulance-service-team/ 

Here are 6 factors that the Information Age has affected the emergency services:

resequencing: including parallel processing of data-bases

simultaneity: making information instantly available in several systems (e.g via OLE)

time extension: offering 24 hour a day; 365 days a year service

portability: taking service and products closer to the user

reusability: using information captured for one purpose (e.g. transactions), and 

using for others (e.g. customer targeting)

The workplace - allowing work from home and on the move, as in telework

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