It has become the practice for high schools in United States to observe Career Days for senior students for many decades now. On this day high school students are introduced to various careers open to them by local business professionals in the school. However, these days are proving insufficient to enable the students of high school to plan their future. That is why most middle-aged adults and youngsters seek the personal guidance of coaches in career development.
Personal coaches in the field of career development offer a very essential service to people who are late planners of their careers. A lot remains to be done to help the youngsters in career development. When the best career options are enumerated for students of high schools, it helps them develop a better understanding of the careers they would prefer, resulting in more efficient planning and more enrollments in colleges leading to a more productive future society.
For many high schools, the practice of a Career Day has taken the form of a whole Career Week to tackle these issues. A couple of days in this week are utilized to introduce the seniors to various career pathways by seasoned community professionals. The assessments resembling those by personal coaches in career development are taken up during the remaining week.
These assessments help the students of high school to become aware of their strengths and weaknesses and also to explore where their values and interests lie. These assessments are then fed to a computer system. The system generates a report outlining the best career options for that particular student. The students then go through further training via Handbook of the Occupational Outlook.
The Handbook of Occupational Outlook is a top rated career development tool for personal career development in the arsenal of high school. The Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics of the United States has put this publication in electronic form as well as in the book form. This enables the students to access valuable information about details of career, industry outlooks and job prospects for the future, the education required and average salaries.
When these assessments of career development of high school students are over, they undergo interviews with either the counselor of the high school or the coach of career development. These students are led through the interviews to explore fully the career options, have discussions with the coaches and reach decisions about the field in which they want to make their careers. Then several resources are provided to the student of the high school to give him a start on his career development path.
Another aspect of activities of career development is that the counselors or the coaches of personal career development visit the senior classrooms and take important sessions on goal setting and its importance in career development. These students get resources to set their goals practically and begin to pen down their plan for personal career development.
Although personal career development concept and its importance is not new for students of high schools, plans for personal career development education are being put into place by schools only now. These initiatives will prepare more and more students of high schools to begin careers or education as soon as they finish high school, thereby leading to a more productive future society.
Students’ Personal Career Development Counseling – Its Benefits And Importance
July 27th, 2010Let’s Get Motivated
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Whatâ??s your motivation? Whatâ??s keeps you going when you sometimes do not feeling like continuing on? Do you have a goal you want to accomplish? Are you trying to impress a love one? Are you motivated for health reasons? Well, whatever your motivation is, letâ??s get motivated and let stay motivated.
Motivated people get things done. Motivated people do not procrastinate or hesitate when it comes time to do something. Motivated people are successful people and successful people are motivated people. You will never achieve success if you are not motivated. A personâ??s desire to be successful is their motivation. Money could be your motivation, fame could be your motivation or even wanting to help other people could be a motivation for you.
I believe that there is something that motivates everyone to do something whether it is a negative or a positive motivator. Positive motivation is what yields positive results and a positive lifestyle.
Self motivation is your ability to satisfy your desires or goals without having to be influence by someone else. Self motivation to me is the key to a healthy and successful life. Self motivation puts you in control. You do not have to wait on someone to get moving or get going. You encourage and motivate yourself. Self-motivation along with self-esteem is what leads to self-improvement. Self motivation helps you build your confidence in yourself. Self motivated people are the leaders of the pack. Self motivated people run and own the companies your work for and buy from. Self motivated people do not make excuses they make the rules you live by.
Now whether you need a little push to get going or not, that does not matter. What matters is that you get moving and doing something productive in life. Motivated people live longer, healthier and successful lives than procrastinators and complainers. â??So letâ??s get motivated and stop complaining!â?
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World of Warcraft Recruitment: How to Get Good Results
July 27th, 20101. Introduction
Recruitment is one of the most important duties of guild leaders or officers. At the same time it is also an area where a lot of guilds go wrong. Often guilds go about the task of recruitment the wrong way. Or you might have thought that recruitment is something that happens automatically and suddenly find yourself out of active members. In this guide we will look at the most important aspects to consider when recruiting for a guild. How do you properly advertise your guild? How do you get good results?
The first step toward successful guild recruitment is to set your goals, in detail. Regardless whether you’re just starting out or just want to kickstart your recruitment, you should spend some time writing a guild charter. Explain what makes your guild special among all the other guilds on the server. Here’s a list of questions you should answer in your charter:
2. Public relations
Writing a charter for your guild serves a double purpose. First of all it will provide you an opportunity to think about what you really expect from the game, from your guild. What do you expect from your members and what are you willing to do to reach those goals.
Secondly the charter will provide you with the perfect foundation for a good guild website. Often your website will be the first (and all too often the last) thing people will look at when considering your guild. Time working on your website is always time well spent. A good website does not just list your progress and provide your members with a forum to chat during work hours. If done right, it should provide potential recruits with invaluable information about your guild.
The most important aspect of recruitment lies in how you make other players perceive you and your guild. To mold your guild and attract the right people to help you on your path, you have to project the correct image to the public. A good guild reputation is your most valuable asset. The charter is the first step toward this. Making everybody aware of your goals in the beginning will help you avoid a lot of grief later on. One of the most common underlying reasons to guilds failing is the failure to communicate your guild’s ideology properly.
This is also the reason why guilds often require their members to follow a certain code of conduct. Your members are your guild’s face to the public. Try to prevent your members from behaving inappropriately toward other players, be it ingame or on forums. One thoughtless comment by one of your members can ruin weeks of hard work you put into building the guilds reputation. Being polite and helpful toward outsiders demands very little effort on your part and it’s an easy way to build a good reputation on your server.
Recruitment officers
Picking the right kind of people as recruitment officers can have a major impact on your guilds recruitment. In most guilds the job of recruitment officer is limited to screening applications on your guild forum. That is a mistake. Replying to applications on your forums should only be a small part of what your recruitment officer does. A recruitment officer is basically your public relations officer. The most important thing your recruitment officers can do is to run heroic instances with people outside your guild. This accomplishes two goals of recruitment:
Poaching
Members and officers who actively seek groups with players outside the guild are your best tool for healthy recruitment. However, when try to avoid to be seen as a poacher. Poaching is the act of specifically trying to recruit people who are already guilded.
Now, technically, there is nothing wrong in a moral sense with this practice. It’s comparable to standard headhunting practices in the business world. If a rival guild has a talented member which you think you might persuade to join your guild, then by all means, try to recruit him/her. If the player decides to leave his old guild then he wasn’t a good match for his old guild anyway.
You may want to keep in mind tho that the other guild and the players in it might not see it that way. Most guilds are fiercely protective of their members. This is only natural, since your recruitment activities may directly interfere with their ability to pursue their own goals. Because of this they call your active recruiting poaching, trying to portray you as a thief. Of couse, most guilds have double standards in this regard. If they do it, its active recruitment or inviting friends to their guild. Still, it is in your best interest to avoid being branded as poacher guild.
It’s not worth to poach any player outright if that means you will antagonize yourself to other potential recuits in that guild or even the whole server. Befriend them and when there is an opportunity, try to induce doubt in their current guild. Let them know that they are the sort of person that you think fits into your guild. Just be available and desirable.
Selecting recruits
It can often be difficult to find recruits that fit your guilds requirements. Make use of online resources. Check recruitment forums. Specialized websites, such as recruit-gamers.com can help you finding players that meet your basic gear requirements and playtimes, be it on your server or willing to transfer from another server. That being said, make sure the players also are a good match for your guild in other aspects. Don’t just look at their equipment and playing hours. Take a few minutes to talk to them about their personal goals. See if their goals mesh with the guild’s goals. Look at their reputation on their server. Recruiting somebody with a bad attitude will do more harm than good, no matter how good their skills and/or playtimes might appear.
Recruitment Check-list:
When do you stop?
So when do you stop recruiting? Let’s say you have enough members to do raid instances (10 or 25, depending on your goals). Does this mean your recruitment officer can take a break? Well, if your members are all hardcore raiders, he could, but I would advise against it. Sure, people like to have their guaranteed raid spot. Sure, you might get great progress raiding with the minimal numbers required. But it is a fact that people sometimes quit playing. When that happens, you want to be prepared. The size of your raid force should depend on how active/dependable your members are, but it should always exceed the minimal number required. As a rule of thumb i would suggest the following:
Resources:
Official WoW Guild Recruitment Forumshttp://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/board.aspx?fn=wow-guild-recruitment
Most guilds submit recruitment posts on the official forum. The downside is that your post will quickly disappear in the back pages if you don’t keep bumping your post to the top.Recruit-Gamershttp://www.recruit-gamers.com/
Offers an alternative to the official forum. Submit your guild’s recruitment status to a searchable database. Or if you want to actively look for new members, search the database for potential recruits.Warcraft Realms Character Historyhttp://www.warcraftrealms.com/charhistory.php
Check up on your applicant’s guild history.