List of Careers & Job Ideas

Garden is a favorite pastime among many person including the elderly. It is the activity of growing plants for their beauty. In some case, the plants are also grown as a food source. Gardening encompasses the growing of many types of plants such as flowers, scrubs,  fruits and trees.

Professional Gardening and Landscaping is an ideal home business for the green finger.

There are multiple types of gardening services. The common ones are:

• Landscaping design
• Garden maintenance.

For simple garden maintenance, the job scope may include tasks such as cutting grass, pruning plants and removing dead leaves.

Some of the ways to get business includes:

1. By referrals and word-of-mouth
2. With the permission of your client, place your gardening service info on the gardened site
3. Set up a website to promote your gardening services.

Are you good with performing adminstrative tasks?

A Virtual Assistant performs administrative tasks for the clients. Who are the clients? Typically, they are professionals and business people who are too busy to manage all the administrative works. These people are often doctors, lawyers, speakers and consultants.

To be a Virtual Assistant, one needs to be resourceful and be able to solve problems. Also good communication skill is well sought of too.

The job scope of the VA can be quite varied, and it largely depends on the client’s profession and requirements. The work can include any of the following:

• writing documents and proposals
• coordinating with clients’ customer
• doing research
• dealing with databases
• maintaining records

There are multiple ways to find clients. One can use networking or through referrals. Alternatively, one should also explore signing up for project and job finding networks and online websites such as elance.com.

As a kind of home business, Virtual Assistant often charge his or her work by the hour. The start-up cost in running a Virtual Assistant home-based business is low. The hours can be quite flexible. But do expect some pressures from client deadlines and demands.

Some designer move between the job scope of artistic know-hows and sales. These guys are the Sales Designers.

Sales Designers are often employed within certain industries that deal with design and trends. This include the Interior design as well as furniture design industry.

As a Sales Designer, one need to have the knowledge pertaining to the specific field. For example, if the Sales Designer works for a particular Furniture company, he or she must be familiar with the company’s furniture product range as well as furniture trends in general.

Sales Designer often need to have persuasive skills with outgoing personalities. They must be able to influence the client or customer towards a sales deal.

What is the role of the Information Broker? Basically, this person helps the client to gather and analyse huge amount of information and research materials. There are several terms for this type of worker. They can be called Information Retrievers, Online researcher or Information Professional.

This home-based business requires very little startup cost.

The scope of work that this person undertakes includes endeavours such as:

1. Patent and Intellectual Property Research

2. Target Market demographic research

3. Competitor information research

Of course, there are many more types of work, but these are the more common ones. Who are the clients? They are usually companies and large organisations. The reason for the demand for the information broker is because many business do not have their own in-house research capabilities. Typically, Information Professionals charge the clients by hours. The charging rates vary from individual to individual as well as differences in market rates between different countries.

There are multiple ways for the information broker to gather information. It also depends on the clients needs and specifications. One common way is to search for information online using the Internet. Another way of gathering research information is through surveying and interviewing people who fall into the intended target or market groups. Such Interviews can be via the phone or face-to-face in person. Last but not least, physical libraries is also a source of information.

Education is a wide ranging field. It covers many different types of careers and job directions.

Furthering of education often entails studying overseas. Often in the time of not-so-rosy economy, many people choose to upgrade themselves.

Studying in a foreign country is not as simple as enrolling for a local educational institute. There are much information gathering, research and preparation required. Also, it can be a stressful decision for both prospective students and their parents. That is where Education Counselling can come in handy. One objective of the counsellor is to help student with their potential career directions.

An Education Counsellor is someone who provides education related counselling. He or she is often employed by agencies or organisation to counsel prospective students and their families with regards to matters about studying in a particular country or place.

Typically, the counsellor should have own experience studying and/or working in that target country of education. He or she must be interested in helping someone resolve the queries pertaining to studying in the relevant universities, colleges and schools.

As the name implies, the Conference Organiser organises conferences. What is a conference? It is a meeting of people for the discussion, consultation and sharing of information pertaining to the topic or agenda of the meet. Such a meeting is pre-arranged.

This job position is often found within the hotel industry. Ability-wise, the conference organiser must have good administrative skills. In addition to that, good communicative ability is also required as he or she is often required to converse and coordinate with different groups of people.

Because of the nature of the job, the conference organiser must be willing to work at irregular hours at times.

Resort Publicity Officer is a career within the Tourism Industry. The Tourism Industry caters to the tourists. Tourism encompasses travel for the purpose of leisure, recreational or even business. It can be either inbound or intrabound  in nature.

The job of this Officer is to promote a designated resort area. This may include highlighting certain places of attraction that the resort offers. What is a Resort? It is a holiday place for recreational and relaxation. A resort can be a self-contained place such as a town whereby many facilities such as those for eating, accommodation and recreation are available.

Qualification-wise, educational trainings such as a degree in Tourism is advantageous. Additionally, past work experiences in tourist-related environments such as tourist information centres are of great help with the career.