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Career Profile: Aerobic Instructor

Written by admin on May 25th, 2008 | Filed under: Physical-based careers

This is the job information and profile for Aerobic Instructor.

An aerobic instructor teaches aerobic exercise. This is often done at a class size level.

Aerobic exercises are types of physical exercises that involve or enhance oxygen consumption by the body. By broad definition, any activity that uses large muscle groups that are maintained continuously and/or in a rhythmic manner can be considered as aerobic exercises.

Typically, an aerobic exercise session consists of 3 stages:

1. Warming up period

2. Exercise period. This is often carried out for 20 minutes or more.

3. Cooling down period

An Aerobic Instructor must be physically fit and be able to communicate to a large group while performing the exercises. To be an Aerobic Instructor, certification may be required. Aerobic Instructor certifications often require the knowledge of CPR.

Employment opportunities can be find in places such as corporate health clubs, recreational clubs. gyms and hospitals.


Promoting yourself online - Part One

Written by admin on May 24th, 2008 | Filed under: Tips and advices

Before the advent of the internet, self-promotion and job seeking efforts are mainly through the medium of the snail mail.
However, in this digital and internet age, you can expand your job seeking endeavours by very quickly broadcasting yourself to an online audience, without the need to wait for the information to be disseminated via conventional paper methods such as snail mailing.

In this article, we will talk about setting up a website inexpensively to promote yourself and to enhance your chances of employability.

In the past, setting up a website used to be a rather costly. However, things have changed dramatically.

You can register a .com domain for a yearly fee of about 10 bucks per year.

Next, you will need to get a web host. Because of stiff competitions, web hosting packages are also relatively cheap nowadays. You can easily get reliable website hosting for as little as a few bucks a month.

Once you have bought the domain name and web host, the next thing that you need to do is to build the site. If this is your first foray into web site building, you may not want to invest too much money in the acquiring of tools for web design and creation.

We have compiled some free software tools are can be used for the web creation tasks.

1. Kompozer - free software for web design and editing. This programs allows you to create web pages without the need to understand the underlying programming and markup language code. This software has an interface that is fairly easy to understand. Below is a screenshot of Kompozer.

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2. GIMP - powerful image editing tool for web graphics. You will need to use this program to optimizes the size and dimensions of images to be used on your website. Below is a screenshot of GIMP.

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3. Filezilla - free tools for uploading files onto the web host. You will need to use Filezilla as an FTP tool to transfer your files and images created unto your web host.

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With these free tools, you should be able to create pretty web sites to promote yourself and showcase your work experiences. You can even put your resume as a webpage for prospective employers to view and print.


Career Profile: Electrician

Written by admin on May 24th, 2008 | Filed under: Technical careers

This is the job information and profile for electrician.

An electrician repairs and installs electrical related equipments and wirings. The job of an electrician includes the installation of electrical apparatus such as sockets and switches.

This is a profession for the technically inclined persons. And more often than not, it is a man’s job and they are required to be proficient in many applications associated with electricity.
Where are the areas that they are likely to be employed? They are often employed by the maintenance section of large organisation and institutions. Alternatively, many of them are also self-employed.

Electrician is a job that will always be in demand.


Do you want to be a Permanent Temp?

Written by admin on May 24th, 2008 | Filed under: Home-based Business ideas

Do you want to be a Permanent Temp?

The following are some questions to see if the permanent temp lifestyle is suitable for you.

1. Are you able to promote yourself well?

2. Do you have a specific or specialized technical skill?

3. Are you comfortable with digital and communication technology?

4.Do you have the entrepreneurial spirit?

5. Can you work independently and alone?

6. Are you adaptable to different work environments and cultures?

7. Are you able to take risk?

8. Do you feel comfortable without a fixed monthly salary?

9. Are you comfortable and capable of managing your own time and resources?

The more ‘Yes’ you score, the more suitable you are to be a permanent temp.


Career Profile: Fashion Designer

Written by admin on May 24th, 2008 | Filed under: Artistic careers

Fashion to human beings is like what are colorful feathers and finnage to birds of paradise. What stands us apart (from other beings) is that we can change our clothes and outer coverage with ease.

What does a Fashion Designer do? The job of a Fashion Designer is not just to make dresses. He or she is required to come up with new clothing and apparel creations. Fashion and apparel design entails the activities related to the development and production of apparel items for children, teens, men and women. This may involve in-depth experimentation in the areas of textile and tailoring ideas.

As a fashion designer, one have to be creative and be imbued with a flair for fine aesthetic sense. The designer need to have strong understandings in the following areas:

1. Apparel Design
2. tailoring and textile fundamentals
3. fashion retail management knowledge
4. apparel manufacturing process

A Fashion designer may have to undergo the relevant training and courses in Apparel and Fashion Design. Such courses are often pitched at the diploma or degree level. More career information may be found in institute and schools that carry these courses.


Career Profile: Yoga Instructor

Written by admin on May 23rd, 2008 | Filed under: Healing and health related careers

This is the job profile for Yoga Instructor.

What does a Yoga Instructor do? Basically a Yoga Instructor teaches Yoga.

What is Yoga? Yoga is an ancient Indian Art and exercise that can be used to promote good health. Yoga comes in many postures.

It has been known that practicing the Yoga postures, meditation and breathing exercises promotes mental and physical health.

Yoga may be able to do the following:
* Reduces stress and tension

* Improves muscle tone, flexibility, strength and stamina

* Improves blood circulation

* Improves creativity

* Improves blood circulation

A Yoga Instructor must have a strong personal interest in yoga. And at the same time, he or she should be well verse in imparting instructions and knowledge to others in a classroom environment.


Career Profile: Wax Therapist

Written by admin on May 22nd, 2008 | Filed under: Beauty and Grooming careers

Being beautiful and attractive is a significant priority for many women. Many women like to be more attractive by removing unsightly hairs from their legs and certain parts of their body. One of the way of removing these hairs is waxing. Hairless legs are often deems as more attractive and sexy.

This essay contains the job profile for the Wax Therapist. A Wax Therapist is one who specialises in performing Waxing such as Bikini waxing.

What is Bikini Waxing? Bikini waxing is the removal of unsightly hair by using waxing at the top of the leg, below the navel, and in the bikini area. There are three main types of bikini waxing. They are known as American, French and Brazillian Waxing.

Wax Therapists have to do the waxing in such as way to be the least painful and most pleasant for the client. More often than not, the clients are usually women. To keep the experience pleasant the therapists have to talk to the client.


What to consider when selecting a Corporate Gift

Written by admin on May 20th, 2008 | Filed under: Tips and advices

What is a Corporate Gift? It is a souvenir that you give to a client or customer.

Buying a corporate gift can be a tricky thing. This is because you want to create the correct impression to the client. You don’t want to overspend, yet you don’t want to appear cheap and stingy.

The followings are some important considerations when choosing corporate gifts:

1. Know the company policy. This allows you to align the gifts’ objective to the policy.

2. First impression lasts. This is important because the first impression is crucial. For this reason, it is better to go for quality rather than quantity. The corporate gift reflects the company’s image. It will be difficult to establish a good image and reputation if the gifts are of low quality.

3. Personal delivery of the corporate gift is better. This will create a better and lasting impression of you once the client opens the gift. Handwritten cards to be included in the gift package will be good.is much appreciated. This will create a positive  and more lasting effect if the signature is hand written.

4. Know the cultural differences of your clients and customers. Research into their customs and culture. Give sonmething that is cultural acceptable for the clients. Most cultures have somethings that are have negative symbolisms. Avoid giving such gifts, unless you want to run the risk of offending the clients and customer.

Well, these are some of the important considerations. Thank you for reading.


Retirement Planning is important

Written by admin on May 4th, 2008 | Filed under: Tips and advices

What is retirement? Retirement is the period of time when a person stops earning money for a living. It refers to the stage in life after one stops working.

Planning for retirement is important. Why is this so?

It is important because of several reasons:

1. The Retirement period has potentially lengthened. Recent surveys done globally have found a major trend. That is that people all over the world are living longer than their ancestors. One of the main reason is that medical and healthcare systems have advanced, enabling people to be cure of otherwise incurable diseases. This and many other reasons reasons in longer lifespans.

2. Mounting cost of living. The cost of living is getting higher for many places. Resources and commodities have become more expensive.

3. You want to enjoy the latter days of your life. You do not want to be working till the end of your physical existence. You want to have a quality life after years of hard work.

These 3 reasons are good enough for us to put some serious considerations towards retirement planning.

Our site features  a basic online Retirement Planning Calculator. Click here to use it.