December 8th, 2010 
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A Career Guidance Test Can Secure Your Professional Future!
Author: pintoo
Ø What do you feel about your professional future?
Ø Where would you start?
Ø What kind of work do you want to do?
Ø What kind of professional environment do you want?
Ø What location and commute should you expect?
Ø Do you want to be a self-employed professional?
Things should be a lot simpler for you if you went ahead with your job search after you identify the answers to these questions. But, the answers are not readily available with anyone you know. Research, talking with friends or seniors can only yield limited information. This is where a career guidance test can help.
You could use this as a tool for the assessment and development of your career. First of all, you will learn which careers are suitable for you and which aren’t; this saves you lots of time and helps you avoid unpleasant experiences are otherwise inevitable. Then, the accuracy of the career guidance test allows you to better focus on set objectives, and thus prevent costly professional mistakes. Plenty of such tests are completely free of charge as they are organized by national or regional employment agencies. A career guidance test is highly reliable and takes only a few minutes to complete. It is a set of questions that you can take online, and the results are available immediately.
When you take a career guidance test, you answer some questions that are afterwards analyzed according to the pre-established response patterns. Results will help you pinpoint the perfect job as related to the present day workforce. The accuracy of a good career guidance test relies on complex algorithms. It is a psychometric test developed to help you spot the best occupation.
Probably one of the most interesting and appealing elements of a career guidance test is the salary estimates. Of course, the figures may not be exact, but you get a definite range. The other results of a good career guidance test are comprehensive enough to give you details on the cost-of-living allowances, incentive pay, base rates and duty pay, which are normally included in your wages. Moreover, for the careers identified as the right ones for you, there will be a special section with various estimates, like the terms you can expect in case of injuries, overtime pay, special bonuses, health insurance profits and shift differentials.
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A career guidance test can secure your professional future! Find your dream career with access to 1000’s of career and educational resources. Offers unique career guidance test that can help you make better life decisions. Take a free Career test now online!
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Any chemical engineering graduate here ?
You may heard about Total program for graduates . If not , here it is : ‘ TOTAL Graduate Scheme (Refining Division – Chemical Engineers)
As part of our Graduate Scheme, you can expect to work within a Company committed to ensuring you will gain the necessary knowledge, skills and understanding required to manage your professional and personal development.
We have a UK refinery at Killingholme (N.E. Lincolnshire) where you will be working.
On the Total Graduate Scheme you will perform a real job from the very beginning of your career in our Group. The aim of the scheme is to expose you to a cross section of areas within the business.
During the programme, graduates have the opportunity to identify and develop core skills and competencies through a programme of training activities and career development discussions to review progress on a regular basis and to network within the Company.
The successful candidates will have/or be predicted a 2.1 degree in Chemical Engineering, be nationally and internationally geographically mobile and be able to demonstrate clearly the competencies below. A good knowledge of French language would be advantageous, otherwise a committed willingness to learn.
Programme duration: 3-4 years
The next intake for the Scheme is September 2010 and the closing date for applications is 9th January 2010
Early applications are highly encouraged as we will be holding an assessment day before Christmas 2009.
Selection assessment days will take place at the refinery ‘ …
I think it is a good idea to help each other to be there ..
could you comment on the following article?
STANDARDS FOR TEACHERS
Potential for Improving Practice
With authority for teacher education andlicensure so decentralized, large-scale reform canbe accomplished only through a unifying vision, Mr. Ambach avers. A widely recognized set of standardsfor the performance of teaching professionals isneeded to ensure consistency and compatibility.
TWENTIETH-century teaching is not adequate to serve 21st-century students. The redesign of teaching and learning for the next century is taking root today in new and more challenging education standards for students. States and localities are establishing priorities for what teachers are expected to provide, along with explicit standards about what students should know and be able to do as a result of their education. As the demands on students become more rigorous, guarantees that the education system is staffed with professionals capable of teaching to achieve these standards become more essential. Standards for students must be matched by standards for teachers, and licensing requirements must ensure that all students are taught effectively.
The reform of teacher education on a nationwide scale is a complicated task in the United States, where education policy is not set by a single central authority. Instead, this authority is held by 50 separate state systems and extra-state jurisdictions and by local school districts.
In many instances, the bodies that regulate teacher education are independent of the agencies responsible for teacher licensing.
With authority for teacher education so decentralized, large-scale, systemwide reform can be accomplished only by means of a unifying vision, with varied routes to realize the vision. A common vision is necessary to ensure the compatibility of approaches taken by different state authorities to improve student achievement and to provide consistency of direction at every point in the career development of a teacher. A widely recognized set of standards for the performance of teaching professionals can ensure the needed consistency and compatibility.
The Interstate New Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium (INTASC), created in 1987 as a program of the Council of Chief State School Officers, is engaged in a multistate effort to craft model licensing standards for teachers that reflect the intent of the standards for students. INTASC’s primary constituency is state education agencies, including state departments of education and independent standards boards responsible for teacher preparation and licensing. Currently, 36 states are actively involved in the INTASC projects.
Also participating are members of the following organizations: the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, the National Council for Accreditation of Teach-er Education (NCATE), the National Association of State Boards of Education, the National Association of State Directors of Teacher Education and Certification, the National Education Association, and the American Federation of Teachers.
INTASC’s approach to creating standards is based on a holistic conception of career development for teaching professionals. Thus it aims not only to describe rigorous expectations for beginning teachers but also to lay out the elements of competent entry-level practice in a way that ensures consistency with emerging visions of accomplished teaching. In that way, licensing standards would describe the goals toward which teachers could work throughout their careers to achieve excellence in their profession.
INTASC began its work with the vision of competent teaching embodied in the statement of “Initial Policy and Perspectives” from the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. Through its standards for recognizing expert teachers, the National Board is articulating a model of what constitutes excellence in teaching. INTASC’s performance-based licensing standards provide the foundation for professional development throughout a teacher’s career.
INTASC’s work also builds on new developments in a number of pioneering states and on the thinking of the Holmes Group, the work of John Goodlad, and other major initiatives designed to reform teacher education. Mirroring these influences, INTASC crafted core standards that describe essential characteristics of teaching, regardless of the subject, grade level, or students being taught. These core standards were designed to have two important attributes. First, they are performance-based — that is, they describe what teachers should know and be able to do from the moment they enter the profession. Second, they are linked directly to current views of what students should know and be able to do in order to meet new K-12 standards for learning challenging subject matter.
INTASC presented the standards in the form of 10 principles (see box, this page), which were further elaborated in terms of the underlying knowledge, dispositions,
This had to have been written by an attorney because who else could confuse you so ? My personal opinion about teachers is that the majority of them are doing their best. They have too many obstacles preventing them from giving children the education they deserve. Some issues that should be clarified are : discipline, homework, parent involvement and manners. Without the cooperation of the parents it is very difficult to be a successful teacher. All the training in the world doesn’t prepare you for the many problems that arise throughout the school year. Good common sense and a firm commitment are needed from every instructor, and follow-up by the parents is essential. Until they clean up the obstacles in the classrooms, nothing will fall into place.
Which among the following is the best project?
S.No
Topic
1 A Study of Color Histogram Based Image Retrieval
2 A Free-Form Database Query Language for Mobile Phones
3 Development and Applications of Wireless Group Support Systems in Mobile Business
4 Design of mobile electronic commerce system based on J2ME
5 Locating Friends and Family Using Mobile Phones with GPS
6 Mobile eLearning Platform for Interactive Patient Education
7 Mobile Forensics in Healthcare
8 On GPS Tracking of Mobile Devices
9 Web 2.0–In Your Hand
10 Wireless-LAN Based Distributed Digital Lighting System for Digital Home
11 A Dynamic E-commerce System Based on Middleware Technology
12 A Model-Integrated Guideline-Driven Clinical Decision-Support System
13 Building up Problem-Based Learning platform based on J2EE
14 Business Processes Solution with Apache Struts Framework
15 Design and Implementation of Web-Based Network Teaching Platform
16 Design of Teacher E-portfolio System for Teacher Professional Development
17 Development and Design of a New Logistics Information Management System
18 e-Care – IHE-Compliant Exchange of Patient Data to Enable Home & Mobile Nursing Care of Elderly People within an e-Care Affinity Domain
19 Mobile Business Application based on J2ME and Web Services
20 A New Data-Mining Based Approach for Network Intrusion Detection
21 E-health Services with Secure Mobile Agent
22 Fighting Phishing with Discriminative Key point Features
23 Improved Bayesian Anti-Spam Filter – Implementation and Analysis on Independent Spam Corpuses
24 Two Factor Authentication Using Mobile Phones
25 Open Source Software in Information Technology Education
26 Research of Structure Integration based on Struts and Hibernate
27 Task Based Automatic Examination System for Sequenced Test
28 The Construction of E-Business Portal Based on Struts, Spring and Hibernate
29 The Design and Implement of Web MIS of Students Based on Servlet+JDBC
30 Uniform & Efficient Data Provisioning for SOA-based Information Systems
31 Using web technologies based on college – graduate Web contact management system Form system
32 Utilizing RSS feeds for crawling the Web
33 Web site management system
34 Design for Security Operating System
35 A Chinese-Learning Game Based on J2EE
36 Bluetooth Mobile Advertising System Using Pull-Based Approach
37 Mobile Blogging System
38 A J2ME-Based Wireless Intelligent Video Surveillance System Using Moving Object Recognition Technology
39 Color Histogram Features Based Image Classification in Content-Based Image Retrieval Systems
40 Automatic Generation of Web User Interfaces Using Database Metadata
41 Employing Bayes Classifier for Improving Learner’s Proficiency
42 Intelligent Heart Disease Prediction System Using Data Mining Techniques
43 A Mobile Phone Based Intelligent Scoring Approach for Assessment of Critical Illness
44 A Fuzzy Similarity Approach for Automated Spam Filtering
45 Personal Authentication Based on Iris Texture Analysis
46 Public Key-embedded Graphic CAPTCHAs
47 A Dynamic Web Page Adaptation for Mobile Device Based on Web2.0
48 Bluetooth Enabled Mobile Phone Remote Control for PC
49 Design and Implementation of E-learning Performance Evaluation System
50 Design of Laboratory Management System Based on JSF Framework
51 Designing and Implementing the E-learning system
52 EPR Management System Development Based on B-S Architecture
53 Establishment of Containers Management System Based on RFID Technology
54 Extracting Content from Web Pages Based on RSS
55 Research on Improved MVC Design Pattern Based on Struts and XSL
56 The Research and Design Of Log Management System Based On Struts Frame
57 Research on the Intelligent Online Trading Platform Based on J2EE
58 Media Searching on Mobile Devices
59 Improving Mobile Banking Security Using Steganography
60 Steganography in MMS
61 Wireless Content Management (WiCoM) for Mobile Device
Image Processing | Mobile Computing | Web Framework | Networking
62 Enterprise Healthcare for mobile device and interoperation of patient Information
63 Smart Phones to the Rescue
64 A Mobile Phone-Enhanced Remote Surveillance System with Electric Power Appliance Control and Network Camera Homing
65 Robot Tele operation System Based on GPRS
66 Design of a New Security Protocol
67 Internet Library Basing on J2EE Technologies
68 Thesis Management Supporting System based on J2EE Platform
69 Universal Customer Relationship Management Support System
70 Application for Management of Hospital
71 Universal E-commerce Platform
72 The Architecture Design of Examination System in Digital Campus Based on J2EE Technology
73 Object Oriented Application Cooperation Methods with Relational Database (ORM) based on J2EE Technology
74 Security of web forms
75 Intrusion Detection and Internet Services Failure Reporting System
76 An Algorithm to Improve the Effectiveness of Apriori
77 Mobile B
Hi Anki, Take ” Design of a new security protocol”.
Who are you going to elect as the President of the Phils. by May 2010 based on the eight assessment questions?
Please give your answer to this blog which aims to determine who are you going to elect as the President of the Philippines by May 2010 based on the eight assessment questions.
These asssement questions will help the Philippine voters to think and decide the best potential President of the Philippines for the May 2010 national and local election given the eight major assessment questions.
1. What is the vision or dream of that Presidentiable for this country or his/her own area of influence ?
2. Does he/she knows how to plan and execute program to the maximum level of performance? “Hindi lang yung puro press release ang ginagawa, pero kapag tinangnan naman ang nagawa na para sa bayan, wala syang pweding maipakikita na tangible accomplishment sa mga Filipino. Mas maraming nagawa mas maganda. At gaano ba karami na ang buhay na naayos na dahil sa nagawa nya para sa Pilipinas?”
3. What are the things that he/she already accomplished in the public service which made an impact in the lives of our people, particularly in the socio-economic, governance, human and spiritual aspect of development?
4. How effective is he/she as a leader? Does he/she possesses the attributes of an admired leader? I mean, honesty, forward-looking, inspiring, competent, fair-minded, supportive, broad-minded, intelligent, straightforward, dependable, courageous, imaginative, caring, determined, mature, loyalty (for the country), self-controlled, independent and decisive.
5. Is he/she has an effective governance skills/attributes. These include accountability, proactive, good example/model leader and planner, convergence, transparency, responsiveness, political will, commitment to reduce corruption (hindi yung plastic, dapat sincere), priority to excellence and participation, wise planner and spender (efficient use of government funds that have bigger impact on our people and the Philippine society).
6. What about his/her learning approach as a professional, in his own area/s of expertise? Does he/she practice interdisciplinary/transdisciplinary approach to learning in whatever expertise he/she has? We need a President who has a multi-tasking skills. Remember that what he/she is expected to do as a President (or any other political leadership position), if he/she will be elected by 2010 comprise the gamut of socio-economic, governance, human and spiritual challenges and needs of this country (at napakarami nila). “”Kaya nyo ba talaga magkaroon ng impact sa mga bagay na nabanggit in the next six years.”
7. Is he/she serves as a model for all kinds of people? We need to develop meritocracy in this country. How did he/she serve for his/her family members (loved ones and relatives), constituents and employees? If at the family’s level he/she is not okay or he/she fails to govern, he/she should not be our next President, because how come he/she would be able to solve the problems and needs of the Philippine society, if he/she cannot start it in his/her own home. Remember, family is the basic unit of the society.
8. This sound spiritual but this is the most important thing for a Philippine President (or any other political position): Is he/she acknowledges God for the stewardship that He has given him/her in terms of his/her knowledge, wisdom, power and authority? “Seek first His kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be given to you.” If God is with you who can be against you. But the problem is, what if God is not with you, who can be with you. I leave that to all!
If in these assessment indicators, he/she or anyone of them fails, I believe he/she should not be elected as our next President. This coming election by May 2010, we need to be wise in deciding who we are going to choose. The Presidentiable should be a man who has the vision to contribute and solve the socio-economic, governance, human, and spiritual challenges of this country.
The only logical one is Nonoy Aquino, since most all of the other top candidates are allied in one way or another to the Arroyo Regime!
PLEASE! PROFESSIONAL HELP! See my COVER LETTER and tell me what’s wrong!!?
I’m european and I’m never completely sure, when writing in English, If I’m being appropriate or not for the occasion, if you know what I mean. There’s my COVER LETTER for a job as FLIGHT ATTENDANT.
Please correct my letter. I really must get this job!
thank you, thank you, thank you!
Dear Madam, Dear Sir,
I enthusiastically look forward to putting my knowledge and experience into practice for X’s interests. I am looking for a position as flight attendant for X to take an active part in their development, facing it as a new and satisfactory professional challenge at an ideal point of my professional career. Skilled in communicating, I am a graduation finalist in Sciences of Communication by X. Part-time activities as a reporter, shop-assistant, actress, event hostess and barmaid, as essentially described in my resume, provided me an extensive exposure to public relation, shaping my comfort in a customer services environment and experience in a selling role. With a friendly and outgoing personality, I’m able to adapt to any type of person and in any type of situation.
I am hard working and very committed to the quality of the welcome, respecting the company’s goals and qualities. I’m flexible and ready to meet the challenge of dealing with people and demanding situations and I am willing to operate on a shift roster. Besides Portuguese, I’m fluent in English and French, both written and spoken, and I also possess knowledge of some basis of German and Spanish. Physically fit, I’m not a smoker and I’m able to swim well. I show a good and healthy appearance, with my weight in proportion to my height (1,72m and 58kg) and I am totally available to wear the X uniform and to follow all X specific rules, regulations and procedures. My vision is normal and I haven’t had the need to wear glasses or contact lenses. As I’m not married or a mother, I am fully prepared to live within one hour’s traveling time of any X base and to work unsociable hours, any day of the year, at any time, including weekends or holidays. I am also flexible to work at any base within the X network or to move to another European country, if necessary.
Strongly motivated, I know how to bring you real added value, and make the most of my responsibilities, relying on my professional ambition, my commitment, and my strong enthusiasm for working and traveling, always aiming to maintain quality and comfort, concerning both to the costumers’ well being and to a friendly working environment.
I am available to meet with you and to discuss working with you in the future, as well as to be present in the Assessment Day in X, at the Xth of next October. I can be reached before then at (+351) xxxxxxx. Thank you very much for your consideration.
Yours sincerely,
XX
Bravo! I would hire you on the spot. But this is not a cover letter – it is a resume, I believe.
A job cover letter is a letter of introduction to an employer, which is used to formally submit a resume for employer review. The purposely of the cover letter is to identify your intent to “apply for” or “seek out” a specific position within a company. it also formally presents yourself as available for a job position or range of positions within a company.
Most importantly, the cover letter is an opportunity to quickly introduce yourself and grab the employers attention. Like the resume, it is another chance to market yourself to the hiring manager, promoting them to read your resume and ultimately grant a job interview.
A job cover letter is a critical part of the job search process. It allows you the first opportunity to gain some interest from the employer. In our research, we have yet to find one career or resume writing professional that doesn’t recommend sending a cover letter with every resume that you submit.
On Google, type “Cover Letter” and choose.
Good Luck – though you really don’t need it