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This month we consider how to "Choose Your Careeer" and how to "Earn More and Get Hired Faster"

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Dealing with Interview Nerves;

Assessment Centres;

Psychometric Tests;

Body Language;

What do you look like?

Presentations;

Assert yourself and how to

Avoid Your CV Ending Up in the Bin

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Favourite Quotes of the Month

"The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them."

- George Bernard Shaw

"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."

- Teddy Roosevelt

How to Choose Your Career

How to Choose Your Career
By Tyler Benson

With the warm breeze of summer wind a numerous number of high school graduates gets ready to enter the university. This is the moment they’ve been waiting for all their lives and now time to choose one career out of the hundreds has come. First of all you are to decide what are you interested in, what skills or abilities you have and what your aim in life is. It is also time to ask somebody for a good piece of advice. Your assessment of yourself is quite subjective, if you want to here bare truth, which is better in this situation, turn to your family or a friend and they’ll tell you what is it you are good at.

It also depends on your physical and mental abilities. As one may hear “the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak”. You may be a genius in mathematics and a complete failure in building a dog house. One can be very skillful in designing a house but feel hopeless in front of the blank sheet of paper and a pen with the task to write an essay. One may be a master of the word but be puzzled by simple procedure of changing the light bulb. That’s why you are to consider all your past experiences in everything you did. That will help you to find your true calling.

Before heading off to college, you are to consider the financial income you’ll get when being awarded with a college diploma. For example the salary of a lawyer and a teacher differ in some digits, and this is also a rule in different countries. So if you dream to do what you like and make a fortune by it, you are to reconsider and find the suitable way out. Now we see how many things is one to know before getting prepared to forward your college application essay. You are to consider a lot of different things and facts. Just imagine how many dull college application essays do universities receive from students. You are to make it bright and very informative. You may have a dream to become a famous actress, but your appearance (let’s be frank) and your skills leave something more to be desired. Of course you may dream on and stay miserable for the rest of the days, but you may also be a great psychologist, a specialist you were advised to become and be happy helping people, making small performances on Christmas Eve for your family.

You’ve chosen your career and feel that you are ready to get your teeth into knowledge but again you face the reality, looking at your grades and the cost of your studies. You have to bee good enough to get a scholarship, but your grades make you come back down to earth and leave no hope for a successful career. Get focused and get necessary points. Once becoming a freshman at high school you are to think already. If you drop out, you will never make a proper career, except some rare cases of extreme luck, will and efforts. Once you’ve considered everything and thought your choice carefully over, you might have gained confidence in the future. And here you are facing the wide walls of your dormitory and thinking about future. If you’ve gone through all above mentioned steps and feel very easy and relaxed. You will make a successful career and be happy till the rest of your days.

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Earn More and Get Hired Faster By Improving Your Grammar

Earn More and Get Hired Faster By Improving Your Grammar
By Mark Baber

Good grammar in spoken and written communications can dramatically increase your value to both current and potential employers. In the business world, and especially in the job interview process, an important part of your value is the perception you present of the profitability of your past performance and expectation of future continued successful performance, and the ideas and strategies you express. If you can speak well and in an organized fashion to communicate important concepts to people with whom you interview with or work with -- and do it quickly and clearly, you remove an important obstacle to your advancement; an obstacle of communications of which many people are not even aware.

When you speak and write correctly, people make the assumption that you are intelligent, educated and capable, and they will concentrate on what you have to say, on your ideas, not on the incorrect or unclear way that you try to express yourself. Think for a moment about the effect that misuse of the English language has had on the image of politicians and public figures over the years. People in the pubic eye who don’t use language well are considered foolish for their errors. Needless to say, this is not the image that you wish to present to others in your professional career. By the same token, if you write and speak correctly and effectively, people will think of you as a leader, and you will be able to advance according to the value of your work and your vision, and not be hindered by the perception that you ‘don’t talk so good.’

In this article, we will be discussing the impact that your proper use of language can have on your professional standing. And how, "...if you don’t talk so good, you often just don’t get nowheres." And, while this article is not meant to be a formal lesson in grammar, it's my intention to touch on some of the most common areas where we fumble with the rules of grammar, so that the reader will leave this article with some practical information that may help. Beyond that, it is the responsibility of each individual to seek out more detailed and formal sources for continued grammatical improvement.

Let's cover some of the basics. The major areas to review to improve one's grammar, are sentence structure, the various parts of speech, subject and verb agreement, pronouns, and punctuation.

When you speak, as much as when you write, if you phrase things correctly, then your audience will pay attention to what you have to say. If you use language incorrectly, the audience will focus its attention on your errors, and not on your points. It’s similar to a smooth stretch of road when you are driving. Your focus is on what’s ahead of you and around you, so you understand where you are and what’s coming your way. The only time you will put your focus on the road itself is if you hit a pothole, or a speed bump. As long as the road is smoothe, you can keep your eyes where they belong. So it is with those who listen to you speak or read what you write.

Understanding sentence structure is crucial. The sentence is the basic building block of all verbal and written communication. Even in the modern context of bullet lists and sound bytes, the sentence is still the standard way to express a complete thought. Many people actually think in sentences.

The first step to understanding sentence structure is being able to identify the parts of a sentence. Every sentence must have a subject, which is usually a noun or pronoun, and a verb, which is a word that expresses an action, such as ‘runs,’ or a state of being, such as ‘exists.’ Most sentences will also have words that describe the subject or the verb in more specific terms. These descriptive words, or modifiers, are usually adjectives, which describe nouns and pronouns, and adverbs, which describe verbs. Adverbs often end in ‘ly,’ as in ‘ran quickly.’

Also, it helps to understand some of the subtleties, like the difference between transitive and intransitive verbs, and what makes a word an irregular verb. Now is a good time to say -- as you go through this process of considering new concepts of writing and speech, don't be put off by the terms used or the seemingly detailed nature of grammar, thinking it is too boring or demanding. There are many free sources at your local library and on the internet to help you get your mind around proper use of grammar. Concentrate on the benefits you receive from having a better understanding of basic grammar.

With that said, be aware that the common verb, which denotes action, comes in more than one flavor. For example, a transitive verb has a direct object, as in ‘ran the race.’ An intransitive verb does not. Many verbs can be used both transitively and intransitively, as in the difference between ‘the boy ran,’ and ‘the boy ran the race.’ In the first case, since there is no object for the verb, ‘ran’ is used intransitively. In the second, ‘race’ is the direct object, so ‘ran’ is transitive. And an irregular verb is a word whose past tense is not formed by the regular rules of adding E-D. For example, the past tense of the word ‘live’ is ‘lived,’ but the past tense of ‘give’ is ‘gave.’ ‘Give’ is an irregular verb.

Other areas of consideration in understanding sentence structure are the uses of prepositional phrases as adjectives and adverbs, agreement in number between subject and verb, as in ‘the men are’ as opposed to ‘one of the men is,’ the proper use of pronouns, and correct punctuation.

Correct punctuation is an issue for many people and essential for creating clear business communications. The rules of usage are confusing at times. People are often unsure of correct punctuation while they are writing, but can usually recognize incorrect punctuation when they are reading. Therefore, it makes good sense to understand the correct usage for the common punctuation marks: the period, the comma, the question mark, the exclamation point, quotation marks, apostrophes, colons and semi-colons. Correct capitalization is also included under the heading of ‘Punctuation.’

As I've stated, much of this material is basic, but it applies as your sentence structure becomes more complex. Complex sentences can contain several phrases or clauses, and punctuating them correctly is the key to making them understandable to your reader. If you leave your reader hanging by using sentence fragments, they will feel confused, and be forced to reread what you’ve written to try and understand it. If the subject of your writing is at all complex, you will lose your audience entirely by confusing them with bad grammar. Therefore, check and recheck your draft for sentence fragments, run on sentences and misplaced phrases and clauses.

There are clever short cuts available to you. Many professionals who create written communications on a regular basis keep some resources handy. A copy of ‘Strunk & White’s Elements of Style’ is a good addition to any writer’s desk. ‘Elements of Style’ is a single volume reference to correct grammar and usage. It is set up as a reference book, so it is easy to use. There are also many sites on the Internet that furnish comprehensive usage information.

Practice and study of basic grammar helps implant regular good usage in both written and spoken communications. If you feel you may improve your results in a job interview or at your current job by being able to present yourself as a knowledgable and effective communicator, then take some time to find a few resources on basic grammar. Set aside study hours. Don't treat this exercise as a forced labor that you dread. See it as an introduction to a new phase of your career, no less valuable than classes or tutorials you may be required to take to improve or upgrade or maintain the skills you utilize in your vocation.

BEST OF LUCK IN YOUR JOB SEARCH

Mark Baber has 20 years experience as an Executive Search recruiter.

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