Wich one do you prefeer? Wich one do you think its appropiated? Well for me, i think it depends of the job; some jobs more than others but every job needs experience so... i may say experience wins...
With the rise in number of people attending university and completing Degrees it seems that some of the "shine" have been taken off, because formerly someone who has been in university was like "WOW look at him he is a great man and has several degrees in university" now no longer university is just for the social "elite".
Now a degree alone wont guarantee you a work place because it is like a common thing these days so many job adverts are now asking for a minimum of three years work experience in the desired field before they will consider you.Now you say "How can I get the experience when I am at university?" This is a true point so this is why you need to know before you go to university what career you want to work in and what is the best path to get you there.
Many university students just go to university as they don’t know what else to do but if you can go in knowing what you want to do it is a big advantage. Another thing to remember is that after you have finished your degree you may not be able to walk straight in to a high paying graduate job. You may have to take a lower salary than you were expecting in order to build up experience. It is only with both experience and a degree that you will eventually get those higher paid management level jobs.
We must accept it... employers are now more interested in your ability to do the job not what you have learnt in a classroom.
domingo, 17 de maio de 2009
Work hard and earning peanuts
Working isn't always a nice day in the office, working on your computer and going to important meetings. Work is our source of surviving since it is what gives us money to by our necessities such as food and things for us to treat others and ourselves, although not all jobs give the option of being able to buy more then our needs, some hardly even manage to pay those needs. There are many hard working and low paying jobs for which people do have to take with everyday. Here is an article posted at http://www.time.com/ about some of the worst jobs in America:
"A lot of congratulations were passed around by lawmakers a few weeks ago when the federal hourly minimum wage was increased to $5.85, a 70 cent uptick. But wages are just part of the problem for workers in bottom-rung jobs. Health hazards, lack of insurance and labor law violations are among the on-the-job inequities faced by these workers, according to industry experts interviewed by TIME, as well as a new report from the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law. "This is incredibly important because we're talking about people who, for whatever reason, have been pushed to the fringes of society," says policy analyst Liana Fox of the Economic Policy Institute, a Washington-based research group.
What are the worst jobs in America? Things are especially tough for service workers in three low-wage U.S. industries: laundry services, supermarkets and nail salons. Industry representatives argue that conditions in these jobs are no worse than those in other competitive service sectors. But these are trades that often go unnoticed. Unlike many manufacturing jobs, these positions aren't vulnerable to outsourcing, but they�re losing protection as domestic unions lose sway. "There's no reason these jobs have to be unsafe or very low-wage jobs," says Fox. "These could be good jobs. And these are all jobs that are more or less here to stay."
Work how, when and where you want to
Work no longer has the same straight concept as before, which would be to go to work in the morning, then come back home at night everyday, except on weekends (in some cases). Many new words such as Work from Home, Part time, Flex Time, Freelancer, Teleworking have been brought to the World of business. Here's an explanation for all these working options:
Teleworking:
In a telecommuting arrangement, the employee works from a home office for either a portion of or all of the work week. He or she maintains a presence in the office electronically via phone, fax, pager and e-mail and is usually, at a minimum, required to participate in some quarterly, monthly or weekly meetings at the work location.
Work from Home:
A work from home arrangement involves working from home and differs from the teleworking/telecommuting arrangement in that it does not require that the employee stays electronically connected to the work location during business hours. Work performed is generally done independently so does not require team interaction or consistent communication. It also is more likely that the employee can live far from the actual location of the business for which he or she is working because face to face contact at the location may not be necessary.
Flex Time:
This alternative work arrangement, flexible scheduling, allows an employee to work a non-traditional schedule to meet personal needs. Generally, a flexible schedule is agreed to and worked for a period of time. Some employers do, however, allow employees to shift schedules daily as personal needs require. Several kinds of Flex-Time arrangements are popular including:
- Compressed Work Week: employee works a full time job in less than 5 working days. An example is 4 ten hour days.
- Core Hours Schedule: An employer defines core work hours (10:00 AM to 3:00 PM for example) during which employees must be at work. Each individual can then pick an arrival and departure time, for a total of 8 hours of work per day, which meets his or her needs and includes the core hours. For instance, one employee may choose to start the day at 6:30 AM and leave at 3:00 PM (allowing 1/2 hour for lunch), while another may prefer to start at 10:00 AM and leave at 6:30.
- Adjusted Lunch Period: An employee may choose to take time off in the middle of the day to work out or run errands and then adjust the start or leave time accordingly. For instance, an employee starts the day at 8:00 AM and then is off from 11-1 to go to the gym. The normal work day would then end at 6:00 PM.
Part Time:
A part time arrangement is available only when the responsibilities of a job can be decreased by giving an employee a smaller service area, fewer projects or where a section of the job can be split off and delegated to someone else. The work delegated to others can be fully separated from the part time employee's work.
Freelance:
Freelance or contract work can be a great way to work from home. Organizations are often looking for individuals with great skills to work on short term projects. If you opt for this type of alternative work arrangement, you will not be an employee of the company. However, the advantage is that you can pick and choose the projects that you wish to bid on. Name your price, sell your skills and do the work, generally from home. If the project does not sound fun or challenging skip it! The internet has made it very easy to find this kind of alternative work arrangement.
Teleworking:
In a telecommuting arrangement, the employee works from a home office for either a portion of or all of the work week. He or she maintains a presence in the office electronically via phone, fax, pager and e-mail and is usually, at a minimum, required to participate in some quarterly, monthly or weekly meetings at the work location.
Work from Home:
A work from home arrangement involves working from home and differs from the teleworking/telecommuting arrangement in that it does not require that the employee stays electronically connected to the work location during business hours. Work performed is generally done independently so does not require team interaction or consistent communication. It also is more likely that the employee can live far from the actual location of the business for which he or she is working because face to face contact at the location may not be necessary.
Flex Time:
This alternative work arrangement, flexible scheduling, allows an employee to work a non-traditional schedule to meet personal needs. Generally, a flexible schedule is agreed to and worked for a period of time. Some employers do, however, allow employees to shift schedules daily as personal needs require. Several kinds of Flex-Time arrangements are popular including:
- Compressed Work Week: employee works a full time job in less than 5 working days. An example is 4 ten hour days.
- Core Hours Schedule: An employer defines core work hours (10:00 AM to 3:00 PM for example) during which employees must be at work. Each individual can then pick an arrival and departure time, for a total of 8 hours of work per day, which meets his or her needs and includes the core hours. For instance, one employee may choose to start the day at 6:30 AM and leave at 3:00 PM (allowing 1/2 hour for lunch), while another may prefer to start at 10:00 AM and leave at 6:30.
- Adjusted Lunch Period: An employee may choose to take time off in the middle of the day to work out or run errands and then adjust the start or leave time accordingly. For instance, an employee starts the day at 8:00 AM and then is off from 11-1 to go to the gym. The normal work day would then end at 6:00 PM.
Part Time:
A part time arrangement is available only when the responsibilities of a job can be decreased by giving an employee a smaller service area, fewer projects or where a section of the job can be split off and delegated to someone else. The work delegated to others can be fully separated from the part time employee's work.
Freelance:
Freelance or contract work can be a great way to work from home. Organizations are often looking for individuals with great skills to work on short term projects. If you opt for this type of alternative work arrangement, you will not be an employee of the company. However, the advantage is that you can pick and choose the projects that you wish to bid on. Name your price, sell your skills and do the work, generally from home. If the project does not sound fun or challenging skip it! The internet has made it very easy to find this kind of alternative work arrangement.
Working in London
As many of you may know of this, London is the capital of England. One thing that people that pass through London everyday (and so I noticed this aswell) is that getting to work may be abit difficult in this specific place. You see, London is simply just a city, although, this city has more population then some countrys from the EU (European Union). It's calculated population in July 2007 was around 7.5million people. In a single city. So with this said, and as you may except, the average speed on the roads is around 10mph (around 16kph), and such transports like the metropolitan area has an estimate of 12 to 14 million people. Although, somehow, with so many people, you cannot say that there is an unemployment crisis in London.
Unemployment
One of the most serious problems the country faces today is the high unemployment that continues to grow. In the 3rd quarter of 2004, the last for which official data are published, the number of unemployed in Portugal over the half a million.
Unemployment has a devastating social and individual (social exclusion, poverty, loss of self-esteem, depression, etc.) but also has economic consequences no less serious which have been systematically neglected.
This has serious consequences for businesses, especially those whose sales are used for the internal market. Due to the fall in purchasing power of the population also determined by high unemployment, many firms can not sell the whole producing, so that ultimately close the doors, throwing many workers in unemployment and further exacerbating the circle "unemployment.
"Safety First"
An accident at work is defined as an external, sudden, unexpected, unintended, and violent event, during the execution of work or arising out of it, which causes damage to the of or loss of the life of the employee.
When an accident happens the worker will be compesated with some cash, from the company that employed him, only if he has insurance; when the accident is serious and the worker dies, the family is compesated in this case and will recieve a small ammount from the state every month.
The "Safety at Work Expert" is a professional that cares about the prevention of the accidents reducing it to minimal levels, or even exclude the riscs at all. He develops his activities promoting the affiliating of the necessary technical-administrative resources making them create and develop prevention actions and campaigns in a cientific and technical way.
It is not a Work Accident when it is related with:
Types of Medics
Medical Assistant
A medical assistant job to work in between doctors, nurses and patients. They provide patients with basic needs like bedside assistance and minor medical treatments, and help doctors by taking patients' vitals, reporting on their condition, and assisting in procedures.
X-ray technologists
An x-ray technologist, also called a radiologic technologist or radiographer, takes x-rays of patients' bone and tissue structure.
Surgical Technologists
A surgical technologist's job is an important one. When the surgeon says "scalpel," there'd better be a scalpel. A surgical technologist's job is to assist surgeons in the operating room by monitoring the patient's vitals, handing instruments to the doctors, answering doctors' questions about the patient
Ultrasound Technologist
Ultrasound technologists, also called diagnostic medical sonographers, are most commonly known as the doctors who show you the ultrasound image of your unborn baby. Besides fetal imaging, these professionals also use ultrasound to detect ailments such as gallstones, tumors and internal diseases
A medical assistant job to work in between doctors, nurses and patients. They provide patients with basic needs like bedside assistance and minor medical treatments, and help doctors by taking patients' vitals, reporting on their condition, and assisting in procedures.
X-ray technologists
An x-ray technologist, also called a radiologic technologist or radiographer, takes x-rays of patients' bone and tissue structure.
Surgical Technologists
A surgical technologist's job is an important one. When the surgeon says "scalpel," there'd better be a scalpel. A surgical technologist's job is to assist surgeons in the operating room by monitoring the patient's vitals, handing instruments to the doctors, answering doctors' questions about the patient
Ultrasound Technologist
Ultrasound technologists, also called diagnostic medical sonographers, are most commonly known as the doctors who show you the ultrasound image of your unborn baby. Besides fetal imaging, these professionals also use ultrasound to detect ailments such as gallstones, tumors and internal diseases
Boss is Always the Boss
In this post i will talk you a little about "The Boss"
THE BOSS's LAWs:
1-The Boss is right about something;
2-The Boss is ALWAYS right;
3-If he isn't; it is applyied the first and second law;
4-The Boss doesn't sleep, he rests;
5-The Boss doesn't eat, he feeds himself;
6-The Boss doesn't drink, he kills his thirst;
7-The Boss never comes late to work, he just got stuck on traffic;
8-The Boss never leaves the work, his presence is needed elsewhere;
9-The Boss never reads the newspaper or magazines in work, he gets updated about the world;
10-The Boss's ideas are always better than yours;
Here's a story to show you how clever bosses are:
One normal day in the office, and an employee founds a magic lamp, then he calls the genius in the presence of his boss and other work mate.
The genius shows up and since they are 3 he can only grant one wish to each of them; so the first employee wishes to be in a beach with loads of money and girls, wish accomplished; then the other employee wishes to be a famous singer, wish accomplished; then The Boss's wish is that each of its employees come back to work, wish accomplished.
Moral of the story: Don't be stupid, let your boss speak first than you.
THE BOSS's LAWs:
1-The Boss is right about something;
2-The Boss is ALWAYS right;
3-If he isn't; it is applyied the first and second law;
4-The Boss doesn't sleep, he rests;
5-The Boss doesn't eat, he feeds himself;
6-The Boss doesn't drink, he kills his thirst;
7-The Boss never comes late to work, he just got stuck on traffic;
8-The Boss never leaves the work, his presence is needed elsewhere;
9-The Boss never reads the newspaper or magazines in work, he gets updated about the world;
10-The Boss's ideas are always better than yours;
Here's a story to show you how clever bosses are:
One normal day in the office, and an employee founds a magic lamp, then he calls the genius in the presence of his boss and other work mate.
The genius shows up and since they are 3 he can only grant one wish to each of them; so the first employee wishes to be in a beach with loads of money and girls, wish accomplished; then the other employee wishes to be a famous singer, wish accomplished; then The Boss's wish is that each of its employees come back to work, wish accomplished.
Moral of the story: Don't be stupid, let your boss speak first than you.
The best job in the world
The government Australian opened a wave of employment, receiving 78.5 thousand euros for 6 months to take account of a beautiful island tropial in Australia. You only have to know swimming, speak English and having adventurous spirit, and will have to go through the white sand, coral diving in the area and perform "certain tasks of lesser importance." Then you must tell your experience to the world through weekly blogs, pictures and videos daily updated.
The successful candidate will be live in the beach house with three bedrooms, a diving pool and a golf buggy ... without having to pay rent. Applications were open until 22 February. Then, the eleven candidates chosen flew to the island of Hamilton in early May for the final process of selection. The choice for the "best job in the world" the contract begins on June 1 and until December, you can make dreams into reality.
The successful candidate will be live in the beach house with three bedrooms, a diving pool and a golf buggy ... without having to pay rent. Applications were open until 22 February. Then, the eleven candidates chosen flew to the island of Hamilton in early May for the final process of selection. The choice for the "best job in the world" the contract begins on June 1 and until December, you can make dreams into reality.
The Evolution of Working
Like some like to call it, we are in the "Digital Era", and as we all know, everything nowadays evolves around new technologies. Today, such things as a car, mobile phone, and others are things for which are needed to "survive" in our present day. Well working is no exception. Every aspect of jobs are getting more "computerized" and efficient at the same time. Such issues like robots substituting man in difficult tasks, or people working at home, through a phone and/or computer screen is something for which is not new to anyone. Although some old jobs are being left behind in time, there is such a large variety of jobs. Although man interacts with his duty manual less and less, and more from some new technologic object.
Engineering
Here are some types of engineering
i. Aerospace engineering- is the branch of engineering behind the design, construction and science of aircraft and spacecraft.
ii. Biomedical engineering- is the application of engineering principles and techniques to the medical field.
iii. Hydraulic engineering - This area of engineering is intimately related to the design of bridges, dams, channels, canals,etc
iv. Civil engineering- is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including works such as bridges, roads, canals, dams and buildings.
i. Aerospace engineering- is the branch of engineering behind the design, construction and science of aircraft and spacecraft.
ii. Biomedical engineering- is the application of engineering principles and techniques to the medical field.
iii. Hydraulic engineering - This area of engineering is intimately related to the design of bridges, dams, channels, canals,etc
iv. Civil engineering- is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including works such as bridges, roads, canals, dams and buildings.
Discrimination at Work
Discrimination at work
Sexual Discrimination
Many people, at some stage in their working lives, receive unwelcome sexual attention from colleagues. Sexual harassment covers a whole range of issues, from rude remarks to leering and unwanted physical contact.
Gay discrimination
Lesbian and gay workers are protected against discrimination in the workplace on the grounds of sexual orientation. This legislation bans direct and indirect discrimination, harassment and victimisation driven by a person's sexuality.
Age discrimination
Your employer can't treat you unfairly at work because of your age;
Employers can't refuse to employ you because of your age;
There's no upper or lower age limit for getting redundancy pay;
Your employer can't dismiss you because of your age;
If you suffer age discrimination, you can make a claim to an employment tribunal;
Your age can't be a barrier to getting certain benefits.
Sexual Discrimination
Many people, at some stage in their working lives, receive unwelcome sexual attention from colleagues. Sexual harassment covers a whole range of issues, from rude remarks to leering and unwanted physical contact.
Gay discrimination
Lesbian and gay workers are protected against discrimination in the workplace on the grounds of sexual orientation. This legislation bans direct and indirect discrimination, harassment and victimisation driven by a person's sexuality.
Age discrimination
Your employer can't treat you unfairly at work because of your age;
Employers can't refuse to employ you because of your age;
There's no upper or lower age limit for getting redundancy pay;
Your employer can't dismiss you because of your age;
If you suffer age discrimination, you can make a claim to an employment tribunal;
Your age can't be a barrier to getting certain benefits.
"Dirty Work"
The Discovery Channel issues "Dirty Work", a new series that follows the routine of many American workers earn their living performing unusual tasks.
Each week, Mike Rowe presents a group of men and women who make hard overcoming the fear and danger to perform their tasks. Rowe assumes the duties, working alongside the handle of cascavéis, fish cleaners, removal of bees and other occupations that carry bizarre, but fundamental. At the end of each inspiring, terrible and hilarious episode, viewers are left with a sense of appreciation for these people and workers know what is facing a really difficult job.
Old Professions
The professions over the years, have been disappearing, some even die out due to new technologies that often substituted Man. Let's see some of the old professions:
"Coveiro"
Person who opens the holes in the cemetery to make a grave for people who have passed away.
"Leiteiro"
"Coveiro"Person who opens the holes in the cemetery to make a grave for people who have passed away.
"Trapeiro"
Person who collects rags, selling or exchanging.
"Leiteiro"
Person, typically male, who delivers milk in milk bottles or in cardboard boxes
"Fotografo à la minute"
"Lavadeiras"
Women who wash the clothes.
"Ardina"
Newsvendor street proclaiming the news that draws the attention of potential customers.
"Costureira"
Women who mending clothes or fabrics.
"Aguadeiro"
Person distributing water by workers.
"Ama!"
Person who takes care of children.
"Amola Tesouras"
Person would land in the land for sharpening knives and scissors.
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