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Carbon Capture Industry to Create 100,000 Jobs in the UK
In the light of the 2010 pre-election Budget, which focuses on economic recovery and industrial investment, the government unveiled its multi-million pound Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Industrial Strategy. Chantel du Plooy takes a look at the CCS scheme, exploring the benefits it could hold for Britain’s future
“Massive growth opportunity”
It is no secret that carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions pollute the atmosphere and contribute significantly to global warming and climate change. Through the development of carbon capture and storage (CCS) initiatives, the UK could confine the CO2 produced by sources such as fossil fuel power plants and store it underground.
According to the IPCC special report on Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage, it has been estimated that CCS applied to a modern conventional power plant could reduce CO2 emissions into the atmosphere by as much as 80-90%.
Energy and Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband has therefore identified the CCS sector as an industry of great potential.
“CCS presents a massive growth opportunity for the UK. We have a strong, established and skilled workforce in precisely the sectors needed to get CCS deployed at scale. And we have some of the best potential sites in Europe for CO2 storage under the North Sea.”
The energy secretary believes that investment into the CCS sector could enhance the UK’s economy by £6.5 billion a year and will create sustainable jobs for 100,000 people by 2030.
The government’s CCS plan will involve intensive research in order to develop strategies to place the UK at the forefront of ground-breaking carbon dioxide capturing technologies. This will be funded by a £90 million pot set aside in April 2009.
Strategy
In recent weeks the government awarded two power companies, German E.On AG and Iberdrola SA’s Scottish Power with undisclosed amounts of money from the CCS strategy’s funding to study carbon capturing technologies. The funding will pay for 12 months of engineering and refining plans to build power plants with CCS technology.
According to the UK Press Association, the organisation that puts the best plans forward will receive government funding to build the UK’s first CCS coal-fired power plant at either Kingsnorth in Kent or Longannet in Scotland. The title holder will run the plant from 2014 for 15 years.
In the meanwhile, Ed Miliband branded Yorkshire and Humber as the UK’s first low carbon economic areas for CCS.
“Yorkshire and Humber is well placed to see the benefits from the jobs that investment in CCS can bring, other regions will too,” he said.
According to the energy secretary, the region encompasses the UK’s largest CO2 producers as well as academic expertise; and it is uniquely positioned near potential storage sites.
As a result, the government has announced that it will invest £6 million into a CCS joint venture between Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE), Vattenfall of Sweden and UK-based Doosan Babcock. Together with three universities, the partnership will create the largest combustion CO2 capture pilot plant in Europe at SSE’s Ferrybridge Power Station in Yorkshire.
The £20 million Yorkshire project will be co-funded by the Technology Strategy Board, the Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) and the Northern Way partnership.
Concerns
Although CCS technology is a potential way for the country to reach a low-carbon future, the carbon benefits still need to be established.
The IPPC report also indicated that in order to capture and compress CO2 at a newly built coal-fired plant, more energy will be required and it could increase fuel needs by 25-40%.
However, more recent reports from the American Coal Utilization Council, unveiled that with appropriate research, development and deployment, sequestered coal-based electricity generation in 2025 won’t need as much energy.
Another cause for concern is the storing of CO2 in the sea where a risk of increasing ocean acidification could be possible.
Pledge
The Carbon Capture and Storage Industrial Strategy is aimed at researching and identifying any potential risks associated with the technology.
Not only will the endeavour place the UK in the lead with regards to CCS strategies, but it will also boost jobs, stimulate the economy and drive the country’s low-carbon future.
What’s more, the government has pledged that no new coal-fired power stations will be approved without CCS technology, which could suggest that the idea of CO2 capturing is here to stay.
Chantel is a regular contributor of career advice and jobs news for leading UK Job Board http://www.careersandjobsuk.com Link text
Google Job Search – The Secrets of Using Google to Find Jobs
Posted by Greg Rodgers in Jobs on 04/19/2010
In this tough economy with so many unemployed people searching for jobs on the popular employment websites, your chances of getting to a good lead before others apply are minute.
You can get an edge over other candidates by doing a Google job search. Why search dozens of popular job sites when Google has already done the work for you? Scores of opportunities are sitting quietly in Google’s index – many even that are not listed on the usual sites (ie…Monster, Careerbuilder, etc)
It costs employers big money to list openings on job search engines, so many opt to advertise opportunities only locally. Many jobs wind up in only the local newspaper classifieds which may not get searched by the big job websites.
Many government agencies also list job openings only on their own websites, meaning that you are missing on hundreds of possible positions by not searching on each individual site. When was the last time you checked for jobs on NASA’s careers page?
Most of these jobs are already indexed in Google and by doing a few simple “Advanced” search techniques, you can find the job you are looking for. The problem is that Google is too powerful and will return too much data, burying your job in results that also contain articles on how to write resumes or anything else mentioning the word “job”.
A simple search for “Chicago jobs” returns over 36,000,000 results! There are hardly that many people in Chicago, let alone jobs. You are seeing the results for every website, every article, and every mention of your keywords on the internet. By feeding Google the proper search parameters, you can eliminate everything that isn’t a valid job opening and uncover many exciting opportunities.
Here are the basics for crafting a proper Google job search:
To do a basic search for jobs in a city, use this string:
Lexington+KY “computer jobs” cisco
This simple query will return every opening that Google knows about in Lexington, Ky that pertains to Cisco computer jobs.
This is the simplest of searches, here is another option:
Lexington+ky ~waitress jobs
The tilde symbol tells the search engine to do a “related” match, which uses fuzzy logic to check “waitress”, “server”, and even “bartender” when doing its Google job search.
You can also try putting the tilde ( ~ ) symbol in front of “jobs” to find matches for “contracts”, “openings”, “opportunities”, etc – very powerful!
Another advanced search technique is to eliminate sites from results, uncovering what has been there all along but just buried under too many matches. Here is an example:
Richmond+VA “electronics technician” -IBM -monster.com
This search string will check for electronics jobs in Richmond, Virginia but will exclude anything for IBM or any jobs listed on Monster.com (because those have probably already been viewed thousands of times!)
We mentioned NASA above, here is how you can search for jobs only listed on government websites:
site:.gov “computer jobs” secret+clearance
Now any website ending in .gov will be checked for jobs that require a secret clearance!
All of the Google job searches above can be performed on the regular Google site, or you can use a job search engine that only checks employment and classifieds websites to narrow your search even more.
You will find that searching on Google is much faster than waiting on employment websites to load and return results with all the graphics and advertisements on the page.
This is like searching on all the big named employment finding websites, plus local papers, plus government agencies all at once – exponentially increasing your odds at finding an opening before a horde of job searchers do.
So now you are armed with the right tools for doing advanced Google job searches, happy hunting!
Greg Rodgers is a full-time writer and finds new opportunities by using Google job search techniques.
Getting More Women Into British Boardrooms
As Britain celebrated International Women’s Day, the government encouraged blue chip firms to invite more women into their boardrooms.
Chantel du Plooy takes a look at where the UK currently stands on the issue of gender equality and what it will take for our country to finally get the balance right.
“Equal Rights, Equal Opportunities: Progress for All”
This year’s International Women’s Day marked its 99th anniversary with the slogan “Equal Rights, Equal Opportunities: Progress for All”.
When Women’s Day was first held nearly a century ago, its purpose was to help women around the world with the fight against female discrimination, voting rights and better pay. Today, it is mostly dedicated to celebrating the accomplishments and successes of women.
On the eve of this year’s annual celebration, Kathryn Bigelow, appropriately became the first woman to win a Best Director Oscar for her internationally acclaimed film The Hurt Locker.
If it took women 82 years of filmmaking to succeed in that category, however, how long will it take them to get onto the executive payroll?
Although Britain has come a long way in diversifying our companies, we are definitely not on standard yet. A recent study by the Government Equalities Office unveiled that 60% of the public feel that there aren’t enough female directors in big companies.
Rightly so, because according to the Cabinet Office, merely 10% of directors at our top 100 companies are women and 62% of FTSE 250 firms don’t have any female executives at all. At this rate, experts believe gender equality in boardrooms will only be evident by 2070.
“More serious action” is Bequired
On International Women’s Day, Prime Minister Gordon Brown expressed his concern about the lack of gender equality in British companies.
“We all recognise the value of strong role models for women in all walks of life – and there are many in politics, the arts, public services, sport and the third sector, but there are too few in Britain’s boardrooms.”
He added that this was especially worrying considering the fact that more than half of graduates every year are female.
As a result, the government’s new Equality Bill will compel companies to reveal their strategies for hiring female talent; and a new parliamentary proposal, Women for Boards, will promote the issue.
However, if firms don’t comply, the Prime Minister said that the government will be forced to take “more serious action to ensure companies recruit from the diverse pool of exceptional talent we have in the UK”.
The Benefits of Greater Equality
Ruth Spellman, chief executive of the Chartered Management Institute, told Business Times Online that one of the reasons companies failed during the recent global financial crisis was because they weren’t diverse enough.
“If you can build a diverse workforce that you keep intact, you will do better in tough times.”
Silka Patel, an executive assistant at Cisco, added that a diverse team brings varied ideas.
“If we employ the same person again and again, we will never grow the company.”
A country that sets the standard for gender equality in businesses and the social arena is Norway. After Gro Harlem Brundtland became the first woman prime minister in 1981, the country started implementing female quotas of 40% within the public and private sectors.
Norway’s first male Minister of Children and Equality, Audun Lysbakken, recently told Forbes that gender equality is a business necessity, because when institutions exclude half of the available talent, their performance is more likely to suffer.
“By making gender equality mandatory through regulations and welfare reforms, we’ve made it easier for women to work and have a family,” he added.
The Road Ahead
Gender equality doesn’t mean overlooking strong male candidates in order to recruit average female ones.
The new Equality Bill calls for “positive action”, where companies will be encouraged to hire a person from a minority group over someone from a majority group if they are equally qualified.
However, at the end of the day, each boardroom seat should be given to the individual who is most capable of fulfilling the role.
Chantel is a regular contributor of career advice and jobs news for leading UK Job Board http://www.careersandjobsuk.com Link text
How Psychic Readers Can Help Your Career Decisions
Posted by Keith Ward in Career on 03/05/2010
People have been going to psychics for centuries. Carnivals and fairs or simply the gypsy in the woods, has given way to corner shops as well as internet and phone readings. The reasons for going to a psychic are numerous; however, most people go for a specific and often a very personal reason. They generally seek out a psychic reader when they have lost their way or have questions they cannot answer.
Most individuals looking for psychic readers are looking merely for guidance. On the search for reassurance and answers about their future life. Psychic readers can provide a wealth of insight into outside influences, internal influences and areas that might bring prosperity and happiness to the person being read. One of the frequently asked or sought after questions and answers deals with careers.
A psychic can use a variety of methods to help you determine the various paths and options available to you. They might even be able to success areas where you might find genuine and lasting success when it comes to careers. There are several different ways that a psychic reader can assist you when it comes to your career. It is important to know what it is that you want to know before visiting.
Psychic readers read cards, palms, runes or other mediums such as tea leaves to obtain the answers they provide. The answers and how specific those answers are, is determined by the medium and the skill of the reader. Some mediums are more likely to lend themselves to greater amounts of information and insight than others. Tarot cards for instance generally provide greater insight into the nuisances of available career options than palm reading or tea leaves.
Your career is one of the most important decisions and many people if they are not looking for insight into where to go next may be looking for confirmation that the career path they have chosen is the right one for them now as well as in the future. Many people desire the peace of mind that come from knowing they are making the right decision. This peace of mind is especially important for individuals who are looking at staying with a particular company or looking to settle into a lifeline pursuit.
For those that are looking to change their career, a psychic reader can provide reassurance and even guidance into what areas to look into when choosing a job or career. A career can be life altering, as such it can also be one of the most stressful decisions that anyone can consider making and in many respects can determine a good portion of your life.
With such an important and often stressful subject psychic readers can help to provide that little extra assurance that can leave you breathing a sigh of relief. You can find psychic readers just about anywhere from the internet to your yellow pages; many work freelance, others are attached to reputable groups. When looking for a career change or looking for reassurance that you are on the right path consider a psychic reader to help you make your career decisions stress free.
Keith Ward is the Founder and Director of the Circle of Professional Clairvoyants, which offers Psychic Readings with fully qualified Psychic Readers and Senior UK Clairvoyants.
Australia Oil Jobs Are Past the Recession
Posted by Richard Skidmore in Jobs on 03/05/2010
The central Governor of Australia’s bank, Glenn Stevens, is under pressure to begin increasing interest rates, after a marked pause in the country’s economy. The source of these demands is a declaration that Australia is officially beyond the grips of the recent global recession.
Economic Changes
What is certainly making Mr. Stevens’ stance more difficult to maintain is the news that Australia is experiencing the biggest jobs boom since 2005. The rate of employment has increased rapidly since October 2009, pushing levels of unemployment down to 5.3% – the lowest figures seen in almost a year. This is made even more palatable when you take into consideration the government’s prediction that levels of joblessness would peak at around 8.5%. But how has the government managed to evade the disastrous effects of recession that has gripped so tightly in other countries across the globe?
Spend Money to Make Money
Prime Minister Ken Rudd decided to tackle Australia’s impending economic crisis head on. In a bold move, he attempted to stimulate growth in the money markets by distributing more than A$20 billion in cash to consumers. In addition, he allocated a further A$22 billion to be spent on roads, railways and schools. At the same time, Governor Stevens reduced interest rates to the lowest figure seen in 50 years. A combination of these factors, plus the strength of Australia’s dollar abroad seems to have had the rejuvenating effect that Stevens and Rudd were looking for.
What’s the Effect?
The main boost seems to have been felt by the oil industry. With companies such as Chevron Corp. now looking for skilled workers to take up oil jobs and oil careers that were frozen during the recession, the tables are turning in favour of the employee. Because the oil industry decided to freeze jobs during the economic crisis rather than opt for redundancies, the demand for workers to fill oil rig jobs and drilling jobs has suddenly increased. This, in turn, means that potential employees are looking at a situation where they could conceivably command wages that have not been seen for some time. “The sting in the tail is that the job market is tightening, potentially causing employers to bid up for staff,” said Craig James, a senior economist at Commonwealth Bank of Australia. To add credence to this statement, The Australian Broadcasting Company has reported that the Maritime Workers Union of Australia has secured a A$50,000 pay-increase over a three year period for workers at Total Marine Services Ltd.
In December of 2009, Chevron Corp. announced that it had signed a deal with Japan’s Tokyo Electric Power Co, to the tune of A£82 billion. This deal secured Chevron as the supplier of liquid natural gas from its fields in Wheatstone in Western Australia. This project is expected to create 6,500 oil jobs and oil careers, including drilling jobs and oil-rig jobs.
However, money market analysts are not convinced that this sudden bout of good news will convince Governor Stevens to increase the interest rates. Instead, it is thought that he will want to see a period of stability before increasing the cost of borrowing.
Duncan freer – Director – offshore oil jobs and offshore gas jobs Search is a job site dedicated to the specific needs of candidates who work in the Oil and Gas industry. We also provide recruiters with an online service that is effective in terms of cost and ease of use. Contacts For interviews, images or comments contact: Duncan Freer Marketing Manager Email: dfreer@oilandgasjobsearch.com
Karren Brady Brings a New Style to the Apprentice
Times are changing on the hit BBC show The Apprentice. Not only has Lord Alan Sugar taken on a government role as the new Enterprise Tsar to the Prime Minister, but Margaret Mountford has resigned. She will be replaced by the “First Lady of Football” and former Birmingham City managing director, Karren Brady.
Who is Karren Brady and what makes her such a corporate success? Chantel du Plooy takes a look at Karren’s career and the role she is expected to play on The Apprentice Series 6.
The new Margaret
With Lord Sugar appointed as a Labour peer, the BBC Trust has called for a rescheduling of the programme. It wouldn’t be appropriate for The Apprentice to give additional media coverage to the Labour party when a general election is due. As a result, viewers will have to wait until July or August for the show to air.
Sadly the audience will also need to make peace with the absence of Margaret Mountford, who alongside Nick Hewer advised Lord Sugar since the show started five years ago.
The 56-year-old corporate lawyer was a natural. She played her role as Lord Sugar’s “eyes and ears” flawlessly, knowing just when to lift a brow, roll her eyes or speak.
In the Guardian, Kira Cochrane wrote that Margaret “combines a steely core with acute moral and business judgment.”
Before and during her time on The Apprentice, Margaret didn’t care for fame and that is what made her such a keeper. She left the show after finishing the fifth series to focus on her PhD studies in papyrology, leaving an extremely important role vacant.
Before news broke that Karren Brady would be her successor, many experts set their own characteristics for the “new Margaret”.
Tim Teeman, arts and entertainment editor of the Times, said that The Apprentice could risk losing its mystique if they opted to appoint someone glamorous to replace Margaret.
Daily Telegraph television critic Mary Evans added: “It’s quintessentially British to have the slightly older woman. We don’t do glamour in Britain; we do sensible, regal and sound. We have the candidates for eye-candy and it’s important that they are looking across the boardroom at the craggiest faces.”
Ironically enough, apart from the very attractive 40-year-old Karren Brady, the other candidates vying for the position were equally enchanting. These included 39-year-old the Ultimo Gel bra founder, Michelle Mone and 37-year-old entrepreneur, Martha Lane Fox.
“As tough as they come”
Karren Brady, the current vice-chairman of West Ham United, might already be familiar to The Apprentice fans after she featured in a series of one-off appearances. She also led a team on Comic Relief does The Apprentice and rose over £750,000.
However, Karren’s media career began at the age of 18 when she started working at advertising company Saatchi & Saatchi. She moved on to become an Account Executive at London Broadcasting Company (LBC) where her paths crossed with publisher David Sullivan.
Sullivan made her a director at his company when she was only 20-years-old. Three years later, she took over the management of Birmingham City Football Club. Although Karren didn’t know much about the sport, she directed the company back into profit. She became the youngest Managing Director of a PLC in the UK and improved the average gate of the Club from 6,000 to 30,000.
When she left Birmingham City after sixteen years, many were disappointed. Dough Ellis, former chairman of rivals Aston Villa told the Birmingham Post: “I’ve a great deal of respect for her business acumen and what she has done for the football club. I used to sit next to her in FA meetings and got to know her well.
“She’s as tough as they come and it’s a huge loss for Birmingham City Football Club. She’ll be missed enormously.”
Unlike Margaret, Karren enjoyed a lot of media attention during her career. She hosted her own TV show, Brady Bunch, presented Central Weekend Live and wrote a string of columns for UK newspapers.
She was also awarded Cosmopolitan magazine’s Woman of the Year in 2006, named Business Woman of the Year in 2007 and won the NatWest Every Woman Award in 2008. In between all her professional duties, she is also a wife and mother of two.
While Karren Brady doesn’t have Margaret’s mystique or matriarchal image, she does bring a wealth of experience and business smarts to the table, along with lashings of energy, wit and style.
Chantel is a regular contributor of career advice and jobs news for leading UK Job Board http://www.careersandjobsuk.com Link text
Nursing Jobs in Missouri
The job market is very difficult to penetrate these days. This is because as much as there are many opportunities that open up due to the growth of technology and innovation as well as human needs, the global economy has not been doing well. The domain of nursing has a lot to offer to those that would diligently seek to gather all that it takes to land that top job in this domain. It is not easy to get to the top in the nursing career and be one of those at helms. The best ways of getting into the career line of nursing in Missouri is by getting the basics right. If you can not afford to attain a higher education the feasible way for you is to consider various preliminary courses that you can do to better your changes of rising up the ladder.
What has created many job openings in the health care industry is that the mainstream medical staffs such as the medical doctors get entangled in other more critical tasks which therefore means that they no longer have enough time to attend to the some tasks and responsibilities in the health care front. Such realities have created more nursing jobs in hospitals. For example the Nursing Practitioners job was created to fill this gap. Nursing practitioners will perform most of the tasks that are performed by the medical doctor although they will always work under the supervision of the medical doctors.
What you need to know about the nursing job in Missouri is that with the nursing practitioner Job you will need to have some advanced education as well as some experience. If you have what it takes what you need to do is to check with the hospitals and clinics in your area or where you would want to be located if you have a choice and see if they have anything that you can take up. If you are not qualified and do not have the required experience there are still many options that you can pursue. The Certified Nursing Assistant job is one of the easiest options to pursue if you want to land that good nursing job but you do not have the experience and the education that are required for some top jobs in the nursing field. This CNA nursing job is one of the best ways to penetrate the seemingly crystal nursing career lines.
The Nursing practitioner roles span a wide list of responsibilities. The nursing practitioners can be tasked to handle common illnesses; give heath care and counseling to those who need such as well give counseling on how to avoid contracting certain diseases. In some cases a masters degree is required if one is to handle the job you may be required to have several years of experience before you can be graced with such a job. Nursing jobs in Missouri enlist various kinds of jobs that one can pursue. For those who have been exposed to some education and have accumulated some experience the list of options is almost endless.
If you are looking for a permanent, per diem, or travel nursing job; in-patient, out-patient or hospice visit Nursing Jobs for all details.
Vital Information About Nurse Practitioners Training
Posted by Adriana N. in Career on 03/02/2010
Nurse practitioners are nurses that are legally allowed to perform same of the same services that many physicians do. This type of medical care provider has many things to offer their patients. The care that they provide will be equal to that of the doctor, but the benefits are often greater.
Many medical offices now give their patients the choice of seeing the physician or the nurse. To many people this is likely to seem odd. After all, the doctor is the only one competent enough to actually treat someone. That is a very common myth among society.
The fact is that these nursing specialists are quite capable of diagnosing any typical problems that their patients suffer from. They spend many years training and put a lot of time and efforts into their studies. It is even required for them to do clinical just like a doctor would.
The schooling
The entire degree will generally take a couple of years to complete and it will be dependent on many things. One such thing is how much of the studies have already been completed. Another factor may be how many classes are taken in a semester. A counselor will help in deciding all of these things.
Before anyone can even start courses for this popular program they must first complete their degree in nursing. Once that is finished then anyone is free to move forward into the practitioner field. It is a very intense area of study, but the rewards make everything worth it.
After successfully completing the classes that are required and doing all of the clinicals, a nurse will have to take a state exam to obtain a license. The tests vary for each state but will usually have many questions on them. A few weeks after the test is taken scores and licensures will be sent out.
The jobs
The actual jobs in this field can be very exciting and there is a large array to choose from. This particular specialist has the ability to do the work that a normal doctor does, but also perform many of the functions highly trained nurse. This is why they are so highly sought after.
Many nurses choose to work in a family practice where they see patients everyday just as the physician does. However, there are also those who follow careers in fields such as sports medicine, acute care units, and nursing homes. The possibilities are endless when it comes to the growing field.
Another employment for these specialists is in education. Schools are desperate for instructors in the nursing classes. Bonuses to choosing this career are the rewards. Being able to share a wealth of knowledge can make anyone feel great.
Nurse practitioners have the ability to offer all the same services as a doctor. They are just as well trained and there is usually not as long of a wait when seeing one of them. The next time you visit your doctor, consider giving one of these amazing specialty nurses a try. It might be a pleasant surprise.
Nursing can be a very rewarding career. Find more information about jobs for travel nurses or jobs for occupational therapy here.
Things to Think About When Filling Out a Job Application
Posted by Nick Woods in Career on 02/26/2010
Applying for a brand new job has never seemed to be a very relaxed process. Perhaps it is just the continuous turning down of job applications that makes it seem so challenging, I truly do not know. One point I know I’m absolutely convinced on is that a job application should be filled in carefully in order for ones probability of getting a interview and job to strengthen.
Anyway, so many individuals seem to find this very complicated, so I what I’ve done is outlined a number of beneficial tips on how to fill out a job application offline. Before we move any further with any job application you need to make certain you dig up all the information considered necessary to fill it out appropriately. Such as old resumes and earnings slip data from your prior employers is crucial for this stage of a job application. Without this information you will really struggle to fill it out the instant you get to a work place that asks you to conclude the form on the spot.
Write this valuable information and data down on a piece of paper or add it to note pad on your computer and print it off. Other vital documentation and information are obtainable from the social security department. You should as well continually make certain you take your social security Card wherever you go as well as a valid driver’s license. Both of these are mandatory for you to complete an application form for any listed jobs.
The next part of the application process is to truly fill in your application. Since these forms can be filled in on location it is crucial to mention that whatever is going to land you that job interview is all dependent on that piece of paper. Therefore when filling out the application it is foremost that you be as smart and clean as possible. Cancelling out unnecessarily will outcome in you being turned down on behalf of an interview since that communicates to the employer that you are careless and dirty.
Legibility is crucial as well. Carefully write everything in the spaces on the application in such a way that anyone who lays their hands on it will be able to read whatever is written there. Correctness and preciseness are again things you have got to use since any mistakes might merely lead to you not getting a response for your job application.
After you have finished the application you must double check to make certain that all entered information is correct to the last letter and number. Go through it more than merely once to make certain you do not over look specific errors that are not easily detectable at first read. The last part of the process includes you actually being smart while collecting and submitting the application. You ought to also make certain that you are polite and presentable in your conduct of speech. Such things stand out and a company will not hesitate to jot down that on the application as soon as you leave.
There are many options out there when you start looking for a job everything from Fast Food Jobs to Customer Service Jobs but you must learn how to fill out a job application to help increase your odds of getting the job.
Procrastination: A “sure Ticket For Failure”
During the recession, employers had to cut costs in any way, shape or form to keep afloat. As a result many employees were made redundant and their tasks were added to other workers’ trays. Those of us lucky enough to have a job in 2010 will therefore need to work much harder to manage our workloads and meet deadlines. It is not the time to procrastinate or postpone any project, but what if you can’t help it?
Chantel du Plooy takes a look at what procrastination is, how it affects your success and what you can do to put a stop to it.
Procrastination and the reasons behind it
Procrastination is more than just postponing a task until tomorrow. It is delaying tasks regularly.
It could be a new project or even an old one, but somehow you just can’t seem to sit down and finish it. Why is that?
In Procrastination: Why You Do It, What To Do about It Now, Jane B. Burka and Lenora M. Yuen writes that the psychological causes of postponing tasks generally include anxiety, low self-esteem and a self-defeating mentality.
People sometimes put off starting a new project because it seems too daunting and they are insecure about where to begin. Others avoid the task because they fear they might fail and would therefore rather not try at all. Some even thrive on the last-minute rush, which they believe motivates and inspires them.
Most people prioritise their workload first and then start working. Procrastinators are also busy. They are chatting to colleagues, nipping out for a quick smoke or running an errand. However, the most common vacuum of a procrastinator’s time is the internet.
According to BBC News, British workers spend an estimated 233 million work hours a month surfing social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace. Wasting time on the internet is also the easiest to get away with because it appears as if a person is working. Ironically enough, procrastinators might even consider what they are doing to be work. Checking emails, sorting files and research are all part of a to-do list but they also keep you from starting or finishing more important tasks.
In the world of a procrastinator, there is no time for double-checking or putting in extra effort on projects. It is all about last-minute running around and delivering rushed results. Regrettably, most procrastinators actually believe that this slap-dash approach works for them.
How it affects success
Procrastination is often confused with laziness, a loss of ambition or a lack of willpower, but it is actually more severe than that. Chronic procrastination could even be a sign of an underlying psychological disorder.
A lifestyle based on constant rescheduling isn’t pleasant either. According to the University of Cambridge Counselling Service, procrastinators are frequently overwhelmed by feelings of guilt, inadequacy, self-disgust, stress and depression.
Sarah (45) a sales manager from London can immediately spot procrastinators in her team.
“In sales, putting off tasks could lead to a lost deal and that is why I struggle to rely on someone who delays following-up on clients,” she says. “To me, procrastination is damaging to a person’s career and a sure ticket for failure.”
How to overcome procrastination
Nick (28) a marketing consultant from Manchester, believes it is possible to kick your postponing habits.
“I use to be the king of delaying stuff,” he admits. “I always felt the urge to push back certain tasks I don’t like or projects that seemed too large.”
Now, Nick forces himself to complete the jobs he doesn’t enjoy first and breaks it up in manageable sections.
If you struggle with procrastination like Nick, here are five tips to helping you overcome it:
1. Break it up: Instead of seeing the project as one big task, break it up into manageable portions.
2. Identify your time vacuum: Find out what you tend to do instead of working. If it is checking emails or surfing the internet, log-off during the period you spend on a project and set time aside to respond to all your emails at once.
3. Invest in the right equipment: Make sure you have enough user-friendly stationery like a proper diary, pens, pencils and note pads etc.
4. Prioritise your time and tasks: Although prioritising is a procrastinator’s nightmare it is a lack of structure that is allowing you to think you have all the time in the world.
5. Reward yourself: Competing with your first nature is hard work, treat yourself to something enjoyable to help motivate you to complete a task at hand.
In a year where employers will expect more from you, rise to the occasion. If you are able to impress your bosses at a time when they need you most, you can be sure to benefit from it later.
Chantel is a regular contributor of career advice and jobs news for leading UK Job Board http://www.careersandjobsuk.com Link text