January 16, 2010 at 1:33 pm      Job, Career & Employment

It seems that some schools combine long hours with revolving days off so that teachers find it hard to recharge their batteries, let alone keep up the quality of their teaching.

As so often this comes back to cultural norms. Many teachers come from a background in which it is normal for the working week to run from Monday to Friday leaving Saturday and Sunday free. It can thus be difficult to adjust to working, say, six days before a day off arrives. Also if the two-day weekend is not on offer, the teachers’ chunk of free time is diluted and they find they can’t, for example, take an extended trip.

The same cultural expectations underpin teaching hours. The western model is for maximum to be around 24 or 25 contact hours but those hours are well prepared and ensure a dynamic performance from teachers. In some situations elsewhere, teachers are asked to teach 30 or more hours and find it hard to keep up. But if long hours in the classroom are required, it is probably expected that the teaching is more passive, with students doing some quiet work in the classroom that perhaps normally they would do for homework.

As so many teachers going abroad to teach are fairly new to the profession, it is very important for employers to explain exactly how the timetable works and what sort of input is expected. For example, if a teacher has the same class for three hours in the morning with just a short break midway, then has another three-hour class in the afternoon, it is necessary to vary the pace quite considerably for the sake of both teacher and students. At least some of that time could justifiably be devoted to fairly mechanical consolidation activities while the teacher can focus on preparation.

Teachers need to think also how they can recycle their lessons. If the school does not give them adequate preparation time, then all the lessons they do prepare will have to be reusable.

Another time-related problem occurs when teachers have to work on split sites and so lose time in traveling from one place to another. I think in general that young, enthusiastic teachers are willing to work hard but schools must realize that the quality of classroom delivery will be reflected in the way they treat their staff. If teachers are overworked, and physically tired by traveling long distances between assignments, they will not be able to maintain the creative classroom presence that we associate with English language teaching.

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Brenda Townsend Hall, a contributing editor to ESLemployment, is a writer in the fields of English for business, cross-cultural awareness and business communications. Interested in receiving TEFL job listings weekly for free? To learn more visit TEFL Jobs.

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January 16, 2010 at 1:33 pm      Job, Career & Employment

Teaching English in a foreign country can be an incredible challenge… and it can also be one of the most fulfilling experiences you’ll ever have. Living abroad, absorbing the culture of another people, and using your native English knowledge to enlighten your students are all wonderful aspects of this rewarding career.

But before you take the plunge and sign up for a job overseas, there are a few things you should consider about yourself and your intended path. Keep in mind… not everyone is cut out for a job like this!

Teaching English in another country is not just a job. It’s also a lifestyle choice. Regardless of where you choose to teach (and sometimes, your choices may be limited by what areas are in need at a certain time), it can be a time-consuming and demanding project, and it will definitely test the limits of your sense of adventure. You will be immersed in a whole new culture and expected to follow it as a citizen. Contrary to popular belief, an English teacher in another country is a far cry from being a tourist.

A job teaching English won’t be like a vacation. Depending on what type of school you choose to teach at and what country you’re planning on working in, your life will be very different from what you have experienced in the past. Even if you’ve visited your country of choice before, unless you actually lived as a native you won’t have a clear feeling of what it will be like to teach English there.

This isn’t to say that teaching English is a grueling job that doesn’t allow you to enjoy the native culture, however. You’ll still have time to yourself to enjoy the sites, and you should certainly do so in order to gain a better understanding of your adopted life as well as your students. The key to enjoying this experience to its full potential is to keep an open mind. This should become your mantra during the entire duration of your job.

Having an open mind will allow you to experience life in your new country first-hand. If you don’t expect special treatment, don’t allow yourself to get caught up in feeling out of place, and don’t waste your time comparing your new life with your old one, chances are good you’ll feel at home before you know it.

You might love to travel, and that’s fantastic. But love of travel isn’t enough to make teaching English abroad the career for you. You must also possess a sense of independence and self-sufficiency that will allow you to adapt easily to the unexpected. Because your life isn’t going to be just about teaching English and returning to a hotel room to await your flight home. Chances are good you’ll be living in an apartment or rented home in your new country for at least a year, and you’ll be doing everything from grocery shopping to taking public transit. You will become, for all intents and purposes, a working citizen of a place that could be vastly different from what you’re used to.

Still sound like fun? Congratulations! You’re one of a special group of people for whom teaching English abroad may just be the perfect career.

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Michelle Simmons is a contributing editor for ESLemployment, the leading job and resource site for the English Teaching Industry. Interested in receiving hundreds of English Teaching jobs listings weekly for free? To learn more visit Teaching English Jobs.

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January 16, 2010 at 1:33 pm      Job, Career & Employment

If you think that the major airlines are the only job possibilities for flight attendants, then you’re missing out on one of the fastest growing areas in the aviation industry. In the wake of 9/11, many of the major airlines cut back on flights in reaction to the decreased demand for air travel among the general public. In response, many corporations have turned to either manning their own mini-air forces, or to hiring smaller airlines for their business and corporate trips. If you’ve never considered corporate flight attendant jobs, the differences may surprise you.

Salaries vary for corporate flight attendant jobs, but are generally better than commercial flight attendant jobs.

First, the nitty-gritty. Expect that those hiring for corporate flight attendant jobs will be looking for experienced flight attendants – two or more years in flight experience is the norm. You may need to relocate to be where the corporate flight attendant jobs are – the big jobs in corporate flying are in Los Angeles and New York. That said, the salaries for corporate flight attendants tend to run between $33,000 and $100,000 depending on the type of company for which you fly. There are several types of players in the corporate flight arena:

Fractional Operators are airlines that service several corporations, giving each business partial ownership of the airline. They’ll generally pay the least of all the corporate operators, though there are exceptions. Starting salaries are in the $30,000 range, depending on flight miles logged. Many fractional operators don’t require any previous corporate flight attendant training, and will train you to their own specifications. Each company has its own requirements, to which you’ll have to adapt. One other advantage to working for a fractional operator is that where you live may not be as important, as they’ll often allow you to airline to meet up with a plane.

Charter Operators pay a bit more as a general rule. Corporate flight attendant jobs with charter operators often offer a starting salary of $40,000. Charters let their aircrafts and crews for individual runs rather than having them on standby for part owners or full owners, therefore you’re likely to log more in air hours than with either other model. The actual salary that you’re offered will depend on your experience and the location of the hiring company, but the average salary for corporate flight attendants working for charter operators is $53,000.

Owner Operators are companies that own their own aircraft and staff them with their own employees. The salaries vary widely from company to company, as do the expected duties. Corporate flight attendants working for an owner operated corporate airline may make as little as $25,000 – and be expected to do everything from take dictation to serve coffee – or as much as $100,000 if they supervise other flight attendants.

One other thing that deserves mention is the possibly of flying ‘contract’. Much like working long-term temp nursing or other assignments, a contract corporate flight attendant is available to work on a contract basis through an assignment agency. Pay is often $350 and up per diem when you’re on assignment, and may include transportation to and from the flight’s originating city and a meals allowance.

Corporate flight attendant jobs are often considered to be the elite jobs in the flight crew world. If you’re interested in corporate flight attendant jobs, you’ll find more information by joining a discussion forum devoted to flight attendants and crew.

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Rita Henry is a contributing editor for Flight Attendant Jobs, the leading job site for the Avaition Industry. Interested in receiving only the hottest Flight Attendant jobs weekly for free? To learn more visit Flight Attendant Jobs.

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January 16, 2010 at 1:33 pm      Job, Career & Employment

By the year 2020, the United States will face a nursing shortage of 800,000 unfilled registered nursing jobs

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January 16, 2010 at 1:33 pm      Job, Career & Employment

A career in flying helicopters or airplanes is a dream of many youngsters. Learning to fly is an expensive affair. It is very important to choose the best training school that trains you in flying. Visit the school; meet with the owner/president, look the facilities and aircraft over. Make a note of the pertinent information and compare it with their information brochure. The following aspects should be checked out before arriving at a decision:

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January 16, 2010 at 1:33 pm      Job, Career & Employment

It’s not easy to find your ideal job, even if you scour job boards and the classifieds and camp out in a career planning office.

But it is possible to get exactly what you want.

Seminar participants would listen to my introductions and marvel that my credentials were a perfect match for what I was doing.

This wasn

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January 16, 2010 at 1:33 pm      Job, Career & Employment

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January 16, 2010 at 1:33 pm      Job, Career & Employment

Let’s face it. Most people go to work because they need money, not because they love going to work. And for many of these people, they don’t even care what they are doing just so that they make the most money possible. For those of you who fall into this category, what follows is a list of some of the more higher paying jobs for college and non college folks. Hopefully, you’ll find something that pays you what you’re looking for.

For those of you who don’t have a college degree, don’t fret, There are actually some pretty high paying jobs out there that don’t require you to have a formal education.

If you’re interested in cars and know your way around the insides of one, you may want to consider becoming an auto mechanic. This job pays an average of about $14.71 per hour depending on where you live of course. That’s well over $550 for a 40 hour work week. Just plan on going home good and dirty each night.

If you’re not good with fixing cars but are great at driving them, you might want to consider becoming a truck driver. You average truck driver makes about $15.97 per hour. One good thing about the job is that you’re pretty much on your own for the day and don’t have to worry about your boss being all over you from 9 to 5.

Believe it or not, one of the higher paying jobs that don’t require a college degree is that of a police officer. The average cop makes about $22.00 per hour. Sure, you have to contend with bullets flying all over the place but after a while even that gets to be pretty mundane. Okay, being a cop is dangerous. But it does pay well. If you like to live dangerously, this may be just the thing for you.

Of course, if you have a college degree, you’re going to get the higher paying jobs.

One of the most common jobs today, especially with the advances in technology, is the job of computer programmer. The average computer programmer makes about $23.19 per hour and this is actually one of the lower paid college required jobs. That’s probably because of the glut of programmers on the market.

Of course if you really want to get technical and make even more money, you can become an engineer, of which there are many kinds such as electrical engineers, mechanical engineers, chemical engineers, civil engineers and on and on. The average engineer makes $33.50 per hour. That’s well over $1300 a week or over $65,000 a year. Not too shabby.

But if you’re really looking for big bucks and have 20-20 vision, then maybe you’d like to become an airline pilot. Don’t laugh. Airline pilots make an average of $95.80 per hour. Sure, there’s always the dangers involved, which we won’t even get into here, but that is one great hourly rate for taking people from one place to another.

There are many good high paying jobs in the world. You just have to be qualified to do them. That is the hard part.

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January 16, 2010 at 1:33 pm      Job, Career & Employment

It’s no secret that there are many dangerous jobs out there in the world. Heck, some jobs that should be relatively safe, like working at a post office, result in people losing their lives. So while it is true, because of the world that we live in, that no job is totally safe, there are some jobs that are dangerous just by the nature of the job itself. We take a look at just a few of these, most of which will probably be very obvious to you.

One of the most dangerous jobs in the world has to be that of a policeman. Not the ones that sit behind a desk, but the ones that are out on the street. With the prevalence of drugs and other substances in our society, every step that a policeman takes out on the streets is a potential step into mortal danger. What makes this all the more worse is that policeman are paid less money than professions that are no where near as dangerous and certainly no where near as important. This makes being a policeman not only dangerous, but thankless. This is something that you really have to want to do with all your heart.

Another very dangerous job is that of a fireman. Every time that alarm goes off and a fireman has to respond to a fire, he is potentially walking into his death. Burning homes and warehouses don’t care who you are. They don’t care if you have a uniform on or not. Fire burns and kills everybody the same. In some ways, being a fireman is even more dangerous than being a policeman as each time you take a call you know there is a fire and a potentially dangerous situation. This is another job you have to want to do more than anything.

If you’re looking for danger in your work, there is always the military. And it isn’t just going off to fight a war that makes it dangerous. A lot of the military training itself can be very dangerous as they need to prepare you for meeting with the enemy. Soldiers have been seriously hurt during training maneuvers. Men have died from excessively long hikes with full pack in the blazing sun. The commercial says, “Be all that you can be”. It should probably add a caveat to that saying. Something like “At your own risk”.

But if you really want to live on the edge of extinction, just get yourself some training with explosives and find yourself a job on the bomb squad. In today’s world where terrorism is so prevalent, bomb scares are a way of life. And with each scare is the potential to find a real bomb. The job of the bomb squad is to disarm that bomb or to get blown up trying. No, this is not a high rush video game. This is real life, as dangerous as it gets.

This is only the tip of the iceberg, Add to this FBI Agent, CIA Agent, Coal Miner, Construction Worker and anybody who works with heavy machinery and you’ve got enough danger to put a whole city in the hospital, or worse.

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January 16, 2010 at 1:33 pm      Job, Career & Employment

The United States is the land of opportunity. There are more jobs for people to do than you can possibly imagine. And with the advances in technology, there are even more jobs for people to do. Well, actually, that’s not really true. See, with the advances in technology, there are a lot of old jobs that are pretty much disappearing if not gone altogether. We’re going to take a look at a few of those vanishing dinosaurs in this article.

One job that is almost non existent these days is the job of the shoe salesman, at least in the traditional sense. Today with stores like Pay Less popping up all over there really is no need for shoe salesmen anymore. The reason is because with the new style of shoe store, shoes are now openly on display, not just display pairs. You simply go to the rack, pick out the shoe you want and if it fits and you like it, you bring it up to the cashier and pay for it. No need for a salesman. Now those Married With Children episodes become even that much more pathetic.

Another job that has gone the way of the dinosaur is the milk man. Remember how back in the 60s you used to get your milk delivered right to your door in real glass milk bottles. Well, not only have the milk man jobs vanished but the glass bottles have disappeared as well, not replaced either by paper cartons or plastic jugs. There are still a few dairies sprinkled here and there that deliver milk to your door, but you have to go out hunting for them.

Another job that is almost gone is the Good Humor Man. Back in the 50s and 60s you couldn’t get Good Humor ice cream in stores. The only way was by looking out for that famous Good Humor truck. Well, those trucks are long gone and Good Humor ice cream can now be found in your local supermarket. Of course you can’t get all the different varieties that they used to sell, but you can get a few. It’s better than nothing.

Even tech jobs that were around 20 years ago have vanished. In the early days of computers when programs were typed up on punch cards we were in desperate need of keypunch operators. Today, with programs being able to be typed in directly into the computer by the programmer himself, keypunch operators are no longer needed. While the skill itself is still somewhat in demand for data entry, that particular job itself is gone.

Many repair jobs such as for transistor radios are no longer needed because the radios today are so cheap, it costs more to fix them than it does to buy a new one. So people just throw away their old radios and buy new ones. So even many tech repair jobs are vanishing because the cost of making these things today are so cheap.

No doubt as time moves on, more and more jobs will be gone. Let’s just hope that they’re replaced by jobs that your average person can actually do without a degree in advanced calculus.

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