Women Career and Education

If you’re like most people, you probably don’t particularly enjoy job interviews. They’re certainly amongst the most stressful occasions that you’ll have in your life.
Are there any tips that’ll help? There certainly are.

The five tips below, if taken to heart and acted upon will probably give you an advantage over about 80% of all job applicants who do little or no preparation for the interview. And that is probably the biggest tip in itself - and a theme that runs through all five tips below - PREPARATION.
The more you prepare beforehand, the more confident you’ll be going in to the interview, and the more confident you’ll appear during the interview.

So, without further a do, here are the five tips that’ll put you streets ahead of the competition at job interviews: Read more!

Many women (and an increasing number of men) decide to put their careers on hold from time to time. The most common reason for doing this is to become a full-time parent after a new baby joins the family. Other reasons include taking time off to care for an ailing parent, going back to school to pursue a degree, starting a home business, or taking an extended leave due to stress or illness.

Regardless of the reason, people who have put their careers on hold often make the decision to re-enter the workforce.
If they have been away from the workforce for a significant period of time, they may be at a disadvantage when they try to resume their career. Their values may have changed due to their nonworking lifestyle; their skills may not be as sharp due to lack of practice; technological advances may even have caused their once sought-after skills to become obsolete.
There’s also the issue of lack of self-confidence, as people desiring to re-enter the workforce consider those and other roadblocks now in their path. Read more!

When interviewing others the goal is to hire the right people for the job and to reduce turnover. Here are some pointers:

1) Establish and maintain control.

Your first objective should be to establish control of your interview. The following introduction has proven to be very effective:

“My purpose here today is to find out about you. If I determine there is potentially a good fit and you’re the type of person I feel I could work with I’ll invite you back for a second interview. We certainly don’t make hiring decisions based on just one interview. What I’m going to do is ask you a series of qualifying questions.” Read more!

One new study report that a full-time stay-at-home mother would earn $134,121 a year if paid for all her work, an amount similar to a top U.S. ad executive, a marketing director or a judge, according to a study released Wednesday.
A mother who works outside the home would earn an extra $85,876 annually on top of her actual wages for the work she does at home, according to the study by Waltham, Massachusetts-based compensation experts Salary.com.

To reach the projected pay figures, the survey calculated the earning power of the 10 jobs respondents said most closely comprise a mother’s role — housekeeper, day-care teacher, cook, computer operator, laundry machine operator, janitor, facilities manager, van driver, chief executive and psychologist. Read more!

Actually there are three main types of Web sites that offer useful career information :

1. Career Development Sites focus on careers across a range of industries and a good place to begin your career research.

2. Spesific Company Sites, provided by the specific company to find their own needs of spesific job seeker. You’re likely to find job listings, news, the company’s mission statement, and the names of contact people.

3. Industry/professional Association Sites Read more!

For Stacey, using the Internet was the key to finding a great job. “You can find almost anything that you’d like to do online and respond to a bunch of ads online in the time it takes to mail your resume to just a few places.”

Stacey decided to look online to find an internship or a summer job in the entertainment industry and noticed an ad on craigslist, a Web site featuring job openings from around the country. Stacey responded immediately to ManiaTV! that was seeking on air personalities and she was called in for an audition.
And he did it, she got the job as as one of the network’s first CJs (cyberjockeys). And now she hosts two music-video shows and a spoof of the online dating scene on ManiaTV! while carrying a full course load. Read more!

Today’s hottest job sectors look keep on maintain their growth rates recently, and it’s good for you to safely bet on a career in technology or health care.

In fact, jobs in health care account for half of the ten fastest-growing jobs in the United States and so does the educational needs for health care vary widely by position. To become a medical assistant or medical aide, you’ll need to invest in a few weeks of on-the-job training.
Many assistant-level and technologist positions require a two-year degree. A career as a registered nurse makes the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ job growth top ten, which makes nursing a sure thing. Read more!

A new book, “Why Men Earn More,” by Dr. Warren Farrell, shows we’ve been dead wrong: For the same work, women earn more than men. His findings are based on a comprehensive review of government and other statistics. It’s against media that for decades have reported that women earn less than men

Farrell is no right-wing misogynist. He ran for the Democratic nomination for California governor. He’s the only man ever elected three times to the board of the National Organization for Women in New York City. And he’s no intellectual lightweight; the Financial Times named him one of the world’s top 100 thought leaders.

The book’s main message is good news for women: If women do one or more of the 25 things men more often do, women can earn more than men. Read more!

Many educational systems only offer career counseling to students in their junior or senior years in high school, if at all.
Counselors, who are often dealing with the more formidable issues of teen pregnancy, drug use, and violence, lack the hours and energy to guide female students to positive futures. Thus, young women look to popular magazines for inspiration; magazines that assert that the “right” clothing, makeup, and dating strategies are keys to a joyful womanhood. If these popular magazines discuss work at all, it is in relation to planning oneÃ¥s career wardrobe.

Today, models are often photographed in career-like settings, sipping coffee or chatting on the phoneëbut that is the extent to which most fashion magazines depict women in careers. Finally, because popular publications fail tglamorousze the benefits of “nontraditional” career fulfillment, teenage girls avoid pursuing careers in mathematics, science, or technology. Read more!

To make a plan your future career, you need to take step-by-step to walk down the discovery lane.

Try to discover what treasures that lie within inside you, is your first step.
By noting your interests and discovering your values.
Many women and men, change their careers late in life to do what they wanted to do as children, try to remember what you wanted to be when you were little, this could be the closest thing to a calling you’ll ever experience.
Next, list your skills and aptitudes and finding your developmental needs and don’t forget to assess your realities Read more!