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작성자Doo ^^작성시간10.07.27조회수203 목록 댓글 22[Topic 01] Change Your Career While at Work Today
If you're jonesing for a new career in 2010, you're not alone. A surprising statistic from Robert Half International’s 2009 Employment Dynamics and Growth Expectations (EDGE) Report revealed that more than half of employees plan to make a career change or go back to school as soon as the economy recovers. Given those aspirations, you might want to take steps now ? while you still have a paying job ? to make your future transition easier. Here are a few tips for incorporating the career change process into your daily routine:
When You Wake Up: When your alarm goes off, grab a journal and a pen and take ten minutes to consider what you like and what you don't like in a work environment. Thought starter questions include: “What is important to you and what are your values?”, “What is your definition of success?” “How do you prefer to work?” and “What type of job would make you want to sit in traffic for hours just for the privilege of showing up?”
While Drinking Your Morning Coffee: Instead of surfing Facebook, check out the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Occupational Outlook Handbook (www.bls.gov/ooh). Browse through the hundreds of thousands of occupations and make a note of the ones that interest you. Jot down the transferable skills required (i.e. project management, sales, marketing, finance), and as you’re going through your day, think about how you may already be using those skills in your current job.
Over Lunch: Search for organizations on LinkedIn (www.linkedin.com) that do the kind of work you’re interested in. Use this site, as well as resources like your college career center or alumni network, to connect with individuals currently working in your target fields. E-mail them and request a half hour informational interview in which you ask specific questions about training requirements, responsibilities, salary, work environment, and opportunities for advancement. As long as you are polite, no one will fault you for wanting the real scoop.
Before You Leave Work: When you’re finished with your daily duties, stay after hours and check out an online course designed to help you facilitate a career change. Online video presentations often provide the same value as more expensive, time consuming, and difficult to travel to seminars. Feel free to check out www.newjobnewyou.com/webinar.html for an example.
On the Train Home: Many people resist changing careers because they feel like they can't afford it. Start creating a nest egg for your transition now by creating a spreadsheet in your Blackberry or PDA that keeps track of where your money is going on a daily basis. If you do this on the train for a month or even just for a few weeks, you’ll be amazed at the data you’ll accumulate. You’ll start to see patterns of unnecessary spending (your morning Starbucks run, sushi takeout, etc.) and areas where you can tighten your belt. A great question to ask yourself is: “do I really need this?” If you honestly don’t, then put the money away for your career change.
jonesing - to have a strong need, desire, or craving for something
nest egg - a cache of money saved for a specific purpose (such as an emergency)
1. Have you ever thought about changing your career? Why or why not?
2. What were your dream jobs when you were younger?
3. What is your dream job now? What do you like about this job?
4. What are the criteria for a job selection? money or aptitude?
5. Do you know anyone who has successfully shifted to a new career?
[Topic 02] Scientists prove that women are better at multitasking than men
It is an age old complaint - that men are incapable of doing more than one thing at once.
Researchers decided to test the truth of the commonly held belief after discovering that no scientific research had ever been done into it.
They found that when women and men work on a number of simple tasks - such as searching for a key or doing easy maths problems - at the same time, the women significantly outperformed the men.
Scientists believe that the results show that females are better able to reflect upon a problem, while continuing to juggle their other commitments, than men.
Professor Keith Laws, a psychologist at the University of Hertfordshire, who led the research, said: "We have all heard stories that either men can't multitask or that women are exceptionally good at multitasking.
"But there didn't appear to be any empirical evidence for this. It was all based upon folklore and hearsay when I looked through the scientific literature."
Prof. Laws gave 50 male and 50 female students eight minutes to perform three tasks at the same time: carrying out simple maths problems, finding restaurants on a map and sketching a strategy for how they would search for a lost key in an imaginary field.
As they performed the tasks, the volunteers also received a phone call that they could either chose to answer or not. If they did answer, they were given an additional general knowledge test while they continued to carry out their other activities.
While women were able to preform well in all four activities at once, men performed, on average, worse when it came to planning to search for the key.
Professor Laws said: "Men are supposed to have better spatial awareness than women, so they should have outperformed the women on the map task and the key task.
"But of all the tasks we gave, the key searching task also requires planning and some kind of strategy.
"Men tended to start their search in a less logical place such as the centre of the field and they would not cover the whole area when they were outlining their search. women tended to enter in one corner and search in concentric circles or lines.
"It shows that women are better at being able to stand back and reflect for a moment while they are juggling other things."
1. Do you think you are good at doing many things at the same time? or not?
2. How many tasks have you ever been doing simultaneously?
3. According to this acrticle, women are more outstanding at multitasking than men. What is your opinion? Do you agree or dis agree? Why?
4. If you had a supernatural power, what super power would you have? or what would you do using that power?