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Professional Development
Further Education and Training:
Full Time Degrees – Full-time learning is mostly suitable for the candidates who
are not aiming to work outside the university. For instance, students who can
stay full-time in the university and do their academic chores are more
encouraged to apply for these disciplines. If a
course is described as full-time, this could mean
that you are required to be present from 9am to
5pm or equivalent every week-day.
Part Time Degrees – Part-time learning is more
suitable for those who want to work outside the
university as well as attending their classes and conducting their research at
the university. This type suits the people who work outside and are not willing
to be at the university all the time. But, as a part-time student, you will have
less credits each semester that you will be able to study besides to work. So,
still pay sufficient attention to your courses.
Postsecondary educators
Education administrators at all levels of education
Social workers
Librarians
Counsellors, such as marriage, family, rehabilitation, and mental health
Nurse practitioners and physician assistants
Nurse midwives
Healthcare positions, including occupational therapists and speech
pathologists
Statisticians and mathematicians
Psychologists
Historians, including archivists and curators
Urban and regional planners
Political scientists
Economists
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Work Experience:
Work Experience usually a week with an employer during 4th year. Your
teachers will help you to arrange your work experience. If you have a particular
company in mind, contact them at the beginning of the school year.
Some schools also run work experience schemes for older pupils. This helps
them prepare for college or uni applications or to move in
to a Modern Apprenticeship or job. This can mean any
formal work experience scheme. It usually runs for a set
period of time and includes specific tasks and
training. You’ll get a taste of what a job or workplace is like,
so you can figure out if you’re interested in that kind of
career. Working with other people and doing your tasks
well helps you build your confidence. On your CV, UCAS form, or college
application. Work experience shows you’re enthusiastic and ready to work
hard. You can pick out particular achievements to show off. Working with
other people helps you build the skills employers love to see on your CV. You’ll
meet people at work and might attend meetings or events. You’ll make
contacts that could provide a reference or help you in the future.
Team building - How you work with colleagues and other students to complete
a task; what your specific role and strength is in a team; how you recognise the
roles of other team members; evidence that you appreciate the value of a
team and are a loyal and committed team member.
Problem solving - How you have coped with a difficult or challenging situation
and come up with a workable solution; evidence of the processes of problem
solving, such as analysing the problem, researching and evaluating possible
solutions, planning action to a solution; evidence of initiative and flexibility.
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Sources of Information:
Trade Unions – A trade union is an organization made up of members (a
membership-based organization) and its membership must be made up mainly
of workers. One of a trade union's main aims is to protect and advance the
interests of its members in the workplace. Most trade unions are independent
of any employer. However, trade unions try to develop close working
relationships with employers. This can sometimes take the form of a
partnership agreement between the employer and the trade union which
identifies their common interests and objectives.
Trade unions:
Transferable Skills
Personal Attributes:
Although it can seem like work experience, knowledge, and qualifications are
the only factors a prospective employer is interested in – your personality also
plays a big part in your suitability. And even if you match the job specifications
perfectly, not drawing attention to your essential attributes could be holding
you back. Some main areas you should use in a workplace is positivity,
confidence, productivity and a good attitude. Even if you’re fully qualified for a
job, a negative approach to work can put you at the bottom of the candidate
list. Not only will you come across unenthusiastic, you could also imply that
you’d rather focus on the bad than the good.
Knowledge and Skills:
Knowledge and Skills are two main things you will need to be successful in a
workplace. The use of knowledge is understanding and planning how to do
something and then the skills is being able to do the thing that you have
planned. Improving skills can be done over time, the more projects that you
complete mean that the more skills you will acquire making your employer
more impressed. By not committing to complete more projects this means
your knowledge and skills will not improve which could make your employer
either sack you or if you are showing them your skills not employ you.
Commitment:
Job commitment is the feeling of responsibility that a person has towards the
mission and goals of an organization. When an individual has job commitment,
he or she is more likely to perform tasks and responsibilities that will help an
organization achieve a goal. Importance of Work Commitment. The success or
failure of an organization is closely related to the effort and motivation of its
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about you and learning how to use it more effectively has many benefits the
way you speak to somebody can also represent a background of good English.
Examples are:, accent, tone, pitch, volume. These help to encourages you to
learn more about your voice and how you use it to its full potential, so when it
does come to interviews and your first day at work it will give a good first
impression.
Functional Skills:
Functional skills are also known as your basic English, Maths and ICT Skills.
These can be shown from your GCSE`s that you take at the end of high school.
By having these qualifications at the basic pass mark, it can make the second
stage of your career a little bit easier. When applying for jobs, apprentices etc
the employers usually look for the basic C grade in these three as this shows
what capability’s you have as a person. Without having these grades can make
it very hard to apply and get an interview for a job as the employers are
looking for skilled and educated people. Other functional skills are things that
you may be asked to do to prove yourself to an employer. Examples could be
small challenges are set and you will have to complete them in a certain time
(to meet standard) These tests could be work related, maths tests, ICT tests
etc.
Time Management:
Time management that everybody does differently. The definition of time
management is to be set tasks and complete them all in a required time (a
deadline). Different ways that you can reach these deadlines are:
Less stress.
Increased opportunities for advancement.
Greater opportunities to achieve important life and career goals.
Personal Responsibility:
Life is full of choices, and what you make of them determines your entire
experience. Sometimes you may swim against the current, and other times you
may go with the flow. Recognizing that the outcome of your life is a product of
your decisions is what accepting personal responsibility is all about. Being
responsible can also give the same benefits as having good time management.
It means that the quality of work produced is at a good standard, the time it’s
done is at a standard set by management etc. For certain people being
responsible can be very bad for them when it comes to working as they won’t
know what to do when left alone, they’re like this most of the time because
they’re scared of doing something wrong and failing.