The education system in Australia is one of the industries that have a dearth of skilled experts. In fact, many higher education institutions have reached out to foreign skilled workers to fill the vacancies in many schools
throughout the country. The high demand has even been highlighted in the Expat Forum in succinctly describing the process as
this is where there is a specific opportunity for those with a teaching background and teaching experience to make a new life in Australia.
The Australian economy has been able to weather the storm of the worldwide recession mainly due to the conservative fiscal policies instituted by the Australian Federal Government. This has helped prop up the economy with little dislocation in the landscape. In fact, there has been an influx of immigrants to fill the in demand positions all throughout the economic
landscape in the vast Australian terrain. Even Australians who have immigrated elsewhere have began to return home seeing the burgeoning economy and stable political structure that Australia has exhibited in the past decades.
As previously discussed, higher education in Australia provides much of the fresh influx of skilled workers for the Australian economy. The peculiarity of the Australian system though is the diversity of the skills available to be learned in the educational system. An individual student has an option of either enrolling in the many world class universities in the country or in the technical schools called TAFEs that are spread all throughout the continent. These vocational technical schools inculcate necessitated skills and expertise for individuals that make up a greater portion of the Australian workforce. The opening up of these educational opportunities to both local and foreign students has allowed the economy to continue on its rapid growth as there are new and skilled workers ready and available to fill the demand for labor in the businesses and industries throughout Australia.
In order to keep abreast with the galloping economy, teaching in Australia is one of the most in demand and high paying jobs in Australia. Even at the point of application for a visa, teachers are given much priority and their applications are fast tracked. In order for an individual to be gainfully employed in a higher education institution in Australia, an individual must have the education, experience and expertise to handle teaching in Australia. The forecast, as reported on Expat Forum is Australia has become something of a magnet for teachers looking to move to a new land and so long as the demand for teachers remains high it is likely we will see the teaching profession remain on the skilled workers list for the foreseeable future.
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donderdag 7 januari 2010
Train your brain
You need to take some time to rebuild your professional image from the inside out. There are a multitude of things you can do to enhance both your personal outlook and the professional presence you convey to potential employers.
One way to continue to maintain a positive and professional state of mind is to commit to dressing each day as you would for a day on the job—as you would on a good day, like when dressing to meet a client. This is slightly less formal than job interview attire (i.e., trousers, jacket, and blouse for women -- shirt and tie for men). Appear as if you are coming from or going to an office. When you're out and about during the day (especially during lunch hours) you may run into former co-workers or other associates who may be in a position to help you network
to find that next position. Dressing in sweats and t-shirts suggests you're on hiatus from your job search, or are not serious about re-entering the workforce. A successful person is busy, important, and mindful to always promote themselves—even on their personal time!
Further steps you can take to reinforce your professional image while in professional transition include being prepared to promote yourself at all times. Carry a business card that reads like a mini-resume with your key selling points/core competencies on one side. This networking business card should appear professionally done - even if created on your home computer. Make sure to use a heavy card stock, appropriate font and ink color, and check carefully to eliminate errors. This card is specifically for networking, and allows you and those with whom you network to represent you and your core competencies to your best advantage to potential employers. In addition to the networking business card, carry hard copies of your resume at all times. You never know when you'll be in position to present it to someone of influence. Promoting yourself as not only professionally attired, but prepared and serious about your transition to another, better position impresses potential employers and co-workers.
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One way to continue to maintain a positive and professional state of mind is to commit to dressing each day as you would for a day on the job—as you would on a good day, like when dressing to meet a client. This is slightly less formal than job interview attire (i.e., trousers, jacket, and blouse for women -- shirt and tie for men). Appear as if you are coming from or going to an office. When you're out and about during the day (especially during lunch hours) you may run into former co-workers or other associates who may be in a position to help you network
to find that next position. Dressing in sweats and t-shirts suggests you're on hiatus from your job search, or are not serious about re-entering the workforce. A successful person is busy, important, and mindful to always promote themselves—even on their personal time!
Further steps you can take to reinforce your professional image while in professional transition include being prepared to promote yourself at all times. Carry a business card that reads like a mini-resume with your key selling points/core competencies on one side. This networking business card should appear professionally done - even if created on your home computer. Make sure to use a heavy card stock, appropriate font and ink color, and check carefully to eliminate errors. This card is specifically for networking, and allows you and those with whom you network to represent you and your core competencies to your best advantage to potential employers. In addition to the networking business card, carry hard copies of your resume at all times. You never know when you'll be in position to present it to someone of influence. Promoting yourself as not only professionally attired, but prepared and serious about your transition to another, better position impresses potential employers and co-workers.
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Canadian Education
The Canadian landscape is both massive and diverse with a great array of resources at its disposal. The exploitation of the vast natural wealth under the auspices of the Canadian government has provided the local economy the necessary resources to increase productivity of not only local resources but also as a great come on for foreign investors. Despite the onslaught of the current financial crisis, the Canadian economy has remained strong and robust. The current economic performance is projected to remain high in the long run making the country one of the most viable business areas in the world today.
In order to maintain the continued growth of the economy, higher education in Canada has continued to provide the skilled workforce annually. There is even a marked increase in foreign students into the different programs through out the higher educational institutions in the country. This is one of the best ways to become a permanent resident in Canada. Often, a foreign student who obtains a degree from a Canadian school is often absorbed easily into the Canadian economy. This in turn opens an avenue for individuals to obtain permanent residence and even Canadian citizenship.
To keep the top notch level of higher education in Canada, the teaching profession must be kept pure and pristine. Currently, teaching in Canada is in a state of oversupply as there are many trained individuals able to provide the necessary guidance for the young minds in the schools and universities in the country. Thus, applying for a teaching position may set back your plans as it would take a while before a position opens up for anyone without the proper education, credentials and experience for the job. As indicated in the Expat Forum, if you are successful in your application to move to Canada then there is still the opportunity to attempt to break into the teaching profession when living in the country.
In fact, finding a job in the field of higher education in Canada is quite difficult, especially if your resume only spells out this kind of experience. There are many other positions available in the Canadian economy that can be had instead of just focusing in the field of education. You may need to take up these job openings instead of pinning your hopes entirely on being employed in a university or school.
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In order to maintain the continued growth of the economy, higher education in Canada has continued to provide the skilled workforce annually. There is even a marked increase in foreign students into the different programs through out the higher educational institutions in the country. This is one of the best ways to become a permanent resident in Canada. Often, a foreign student who obtains a degree from a Canadian school is often absorbed easily into the Canadian economy. This in turn opens an avenue for individuals to obtain permanent residence and even Canadian citizenship.
To keep the top notch level of higher education in Canada, the teaching profession must be kept pure and pristine. Currently, teaching in Canada is in a state of oversupply as there are many trained individuals able to provide the necessary guidance for the young minds in the schools and universities in the country. Thus, applying for a teaching position may set back your plans as it would take a while before a position opens up for anyone without the proper education, credentials and experience for the job. As indicated in the Expat Forum, if you are successful in your application to move to Canada then there is still the opportunity to attempt to break into the teaching profession when living in the country.
In fact, finding a job in the field of higher education in Canada is quite difficult, especially if your resume only spells out this kind of experience. There are many other positions available in the Canadian economy that can be had instead of just focusing in the field of education. You may need to take up these job openings instead of pinning your hopes entirely on being employed in a university or school.
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Get The Most Out Of Binaural Beats Brainwave Entrainment Meditation
Imagine what it would be like if you could block out all of the stress and anxiety before it even affected you? It is a concept that is almost inconceivable when you really think about it. How far back in your life would you need to go to reach a time that you did not have a care in the world? If you are like the majority of people, you would need to go back to when you were a baby...by the time you became a toddler, I can almost bet you that the world was already affecting you.
I had heard about brainwave entrainment several years ago, but wrote it off as a bunch of new age...sitting cross-legged on the floor while chanting some mumbo jumbo garbage. Sorry...but that was pretty close to what I thought that it was all about.
With everyone offering their two cents about stress relief, it will ultimately come down to what does the trick for you. To me...there is nothing like a free sample before you decide to buy something...why spend money unless you know that it will work for you?
I found a website that offered a free sample of binaural beats meditation mp3, and also two others...monaural beats and isochronic tones. I signed up and had them send me my free recordings...WOW...I loved them all, but especially the isochronic tones. I purchased four additional meditation mp3 brainwave entrainment and let me tell you...the outside world may be nasty, but my inner existence is calm and peaceful!
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I had heard about brainwave entrainment several years ago, but wrote it off as a bunch of new age...sitting cross-legged on the floor while chanting some mumbo jumbo garbage. Sorry...but that was pretty close to what I thought that it was all about.
With everyone offering their two cents about stress relief, it will ultimately come down to what does the trick for you. To me...there is nothing like a free sample before you decide to buy something...why spend money unless you know that it will work for you?
I found a website that offered a free sample of binaural beats meditation mp3, and also two others...monaural beats and isochronic tones. I signed up and had them send me my free recordings...WOW...I loved them all, but especially the isochronic tones. I purchased four additional meditation mp3 brainwave entrainment and let me tell you...the outside world may be nasty, but my inner existence is calm and peaceful!
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Job search tips
So what are the most effective ways for conducting a job search? They are mentioned below. These percentages refer to the number of people out of every 100, who find a job using only that method.
1) Job leads from friends, colleagues and other contacts: 33%
2) Directly approaching an employer (hiring manager) that interests you in-person or over the phone: 47-60%
These methods are certainly more successful as compared to some of the tactics we listed inour article "Least successful ways to look for a job" (e.g. 5% for job boards). However, the real benefit comes from using an integrated approach, which is by far the most effective way to look for a job. The success rate improves dramatically to ~85% by using this approach:
Step 1: Career discovery
a) Preparing a comprehensive profile: Of your personality, interests, values, beliefs, skills, past experience and goals/constraints. Basically, a detailed representation of 'who you are'
b) Identifying ideal career/job possibilities: This involves matching 'who you are' with 'what you do'. At the end of the exercise you should have a list of actual jobs and companies where you would be an ideal fit
Step 2: Prepare a personal marketing plan
o Customised plan to market yourself to your ideal 'customer' i.e. potential employers
o This is based on the work done in step 1
o It enables you to effectively showcase and convince employers why you are right for the job
Step 3: Use proactive job search tactics, personal contactsand networking to reach people who have the power to hire you
o Target both the published and unpublished job markets
o Effectively reach the people who can hire you for positions you are considering
o Supplement with a few other methods such as head-hunters, job boards and so on. However, do not spend too much time on these.
The reasons why this approach is so successful is simple. One of the big challenges hiring managers constantly face, is to recruit the right person for the job and to ensure that they retain this person. By targeting jobs/companies for which you are the right fit, you make the hiring manager's job much easier. In your resume, interviews and other communication, using inputs from your personal marketing plan ensures that you can effectively show why you are the best person for the job. And finally, by using contacts/networking you access the unpublished job market (in addition to the traditional job market) which broadens the number of good jobs you can target.
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1) Job leads from friends, colleagues and other contacts: 33%
2) Directly approaching an employer (hiring manager) that interests you in-person or over the phone: 47-60%
These methods are certainly more successful as compared to some of the tactics we listed inour article "Least successful ways to look for a job" (e.g. 5% for job boards). However, the real benefit comes from using an integrated approach, which is by far the most effective way to look for a job. The success rate improves dramatically to ~85% by using this approach:
Step 1: Career discovery
a) Preparing a comprehensive profile: Of your personality, interests, values, beliefs, skills, past experience and goals/constraints. Basically, a detailed representation of 'who you are'
b) Identifying ideal career/job possibilities: This involves matching 'who you are' with 'what you do'. At the end of the exercise you should have a list of actual jobs and companies where you would be an ideal fit
Step 2: Prepare a personal marketing plan
o Customised plan to market yourself to your ideal 'customer' i.e. potential employers
o This is based on the work done in step 1
o It enables you to effectively showcase and convince employers why you are right for the job
Step 3: Use proactive job search tactics, personal contactsand networking to reach people who have the power to hire you
o Target both the published and unpublished job markets
o Effectively reach the people who can hire you for positions you are considering
o Supplement with a few other methods such as head-hunters, job boards and so on. However, do not spend too much time on these.
The reasons why this approach is so successful is simple. One of the big challenges hiring managers constantly face, is to recruit the right person for the job and to ensure that they retain this person. By targeting jobs/companies for which you are the right fit, you make the hiring manager's job much easier. In your resume, interviews and other communication, using inputs from your personal marketing plan ensures that you can effectively show why you are the best person for the job. And finally, by using contacts/networking you access the unpublished job market (in addition to the traditional job market) which broadens the number of good jobs you can target.
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Find the best employees
Quick and effective employee selection, which ensures employees are a good fit for the job and your company. Most recruiting methods used in companies have very little correlation with actual performance on the job. This can result in costly hiring mistakes.
Managing employee performance and providing them with all they need to outperform
Development of top talent to identify high potentials and ensure they are placed in critical roles
Helping employees plan their career and chart their career path in your company, based on comprehensive profiling - including personality, interests, values, skills, experience and constraints
Engaging employees by monitoring their commitment and level of satisfaction and taking steps to keep them at high levels. It also involves creating a company culture that employees want.
Companies might know that these are important factors. However, in practice they are not given enough attention, or are completely ignored. People spend too much time on day-to-day activities and once in a while do some superficial activity, which is supposed to address these factors. If your company is to outperform, these factors are a must and they can be implemented in a systematic, practical and measurable way.
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Managing employee performance and providing them with all they need to outperform
Development of top talent to identify high potentials and ensure they are placed in critical roles
Helping employees plan their career and chart their career path in your company, based on comprehensive profiling - including personality, interests, values, skills, experience and constraints
Engaging employees by monitoring their commitment and level of satisfaction and taking steps to keep them at high levels. It also involves creating a company culture that employees want.
Companies might know that these are important factors. However, in practice they are not given enough attention, or are completely ignored. People spend too much time on day-to-day activities and once in a while do some superficial activity, which is supposed to address these factors. If your company is to outperform, these factors are a must and they can be implemented in a systematic, practical and measurable way.
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Psychometric Assessments
You might come across such assessments either on the internet, or through a career counsellor. They are useful but only if conducted properly. Many a times, people use them standalone and instead of qualitative self reflection/introspection, which is not recommended. Self reflection must form the foundation of your career decision making and development. Nothing can beat the insights generated from such an exercise and it can also be very rewarding in many ways. Assessments should be used to complement self reflection i.e. to further refine results, provide more ideas or eliminate choices.
It is also important to remember that you should not take the results from an assessment as the last word on yourself. Every person is unique and the results provided by an assessment might not capture every aspect of you. Assessments need to be interpreted properly and in the right context, which is why most advanced/good assessments will need to be taken through a career guidance practitioner. We certainly recommend that over most free/online/self administered assessments. If you do take a free/online assessment be very careful in selecting good quality ones and consider having one session with a practitioner just to make sure you are interpreting it correctly.
A distinction can be made between assessments that help individuals assess the content of career choices, or 'what to choose', and those that assess the process of choice, or 'how to choose' (which assess the skills needed for effective career decision making). In this article, we will focus on 'what to choose' since you will probably see more of these.
Perhaps the most commonly used instruments are occupational interest inventories. Interest inventories help individuals identify occupational fields that they are likely to find rewarding. Typically, an individuals' responses to the items in the inventory are compared to those of people working in a range of occupations, to see how similar their interests are to those of people working in those occupations. One of the best known interest inventories is the Strong Interest Inventory. Note: If you decide to take such assessments without the guidance of a career advisor, the Self Directed Search and Career Key are some of the better ones and are also good value for your money.
Measures of work values, or basic beliefs about what is important to the individual in the work context, are also seen frequently. One example is the Minnesota Importance Questionnaire. This instrument requires the individual to rate the importance of 20 work-related values or needs. Examples of some of the values are ability utilization, achievement, activity, advancement, authority, compensation, creativity and recognition.
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It is also important to remember that you should not take the results from an assessment as the last word on yourself. Every person is unique and the results provided by an assessment might not capture every aspect of you. Assessments need to be interpreted properly and in the right context, which is why most advanced/good assessments will need to be taken through a career guidance practitioner. We certainly recommend that over most free/online/self administered assessments. If you do take a free/online assessment be very careful in selecting good quality ones and consider having one session with a practitioner just to make sure you are interpreting it correctly.
A distinction can be made between assessments that help individuals assess the content of career choices, or 'what to choose', and those that assess the process of choice, or 'how to choose' (which assess the skills needed for effective career decision making). In this article, we will focus on 'what to choose' since you will probably see more of these.
Perhaps the most commonly used instruments are occupational interest inventories. Interest inventories help individuals identify occupational fields that they are likely to find rewarding. Typically, an individuals' responses to the items in the inventory are compared to those of people working in a range of occupations, to see how similar their interests are to those of people working in those occupations. One of the best known interest inventories is the Strong Interest Inventory. Note: If you decide to take such assessments without the guidance of a career advisor, the Self Directed Search and Career Key are some of the better ones and are also good value for your money.
Measures of work values, or basic beliefs about what is important to the individual in the work context, are also seen frequently. One example is the Minnesota Importance Questionnaire. This instrument requires the individual to rate the importance of 20 work-related values or needs. Examples of some of the values are ability utilization, achievement, activity, advancement, authority, compensation, creativity and recognition.
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