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Career self-management is controlled by the concerned individual and includes certain plans and information applicable for future career decision-making and problem solving. It is comprised of continuously improving the existent conditions at the present work place and preparing yourself for a change. Career self-management and organizational career management are not restricted and can actually help to promote each other.

Common Misconceptions

Listed below are some of the common misconceptions about career management:

o Most people think that the most skilled candidate is likely to be selected. However, this is not true. Candidates with limited qualifications avail of a number of job opportunities because of the way they prepare and present themselves. In short, they self-market themselves in the required manner. Being skilled or qualified is not the only criteria. You must be able to convince the employer that you are the most suitable candidate for the job.

o Most people feel that as long as they already have a job, they don’t really need to work on their careers. Again, this not true. Whether or not you are employed currently, you should be prepared for change, in whatever form. To steer clear of any career-related disasters, you should implement the concept of ‘Perpetual Career Management’ to enhance your career growth.

o Professional education should not stop when you graduate. You should always explore ways to increase your knowledge. You should be constantly updating your skills via journals, seminars and pursuing certifications. These choices should be a part of your consistent career development effort.

o Don’t be under the misconception that your job is secure if you work hard and do a good job. With current mergers, outsourcing, downsizing and an unstable economy, there is no job that is entirely secure. You must be fully responsible for the future prospects of your chosen career.

What Graduates Have In Store For Them

Organizations in the United States and other developed countries have been following a trend of employing only the best university graduates to prepare them for future leadership within the organization. However, apprehensions about the proceeds in investing long-term in career development has led many organizations to wonder if this conventional stress on the management of graduate careers should be continued. Employers are now wondering whether they should promote self-management or whether they should continue with the traditional methods of career management.

Similarly, graduates are also faced with a problem. They need to decide whether they should engage in self-management or whether they need to adhere and prepare for the traditional methods already in use. Organizational commitment is important in shaping the responses to career development practices and in acting as chief indicators of the influence of these practices.

Nevertheless, there has been very little research done to sufficiently investigate the impact of career management practices, in spite of the evidence that these practices are capable of making a positive contribution.

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When the time for employee performance evaluation comes around, it spells of a lot of work and stress. Many evaluations have to be prepared and more stressful is the part when your team member argues on what you have documented.

There is an effective and easy way to do this if you can plan your activities towards this exercise. It will normally stretch over a period of a year or the duration of a project.

1. Do Performance Planning At The Beginning

At the beginning of the year or the project period, prepare a performance plan. List the various areas that the employee will work on and what are the expected results.

This will include both objective and subjective measures. Sales value achieved or number of customer contacts made are examples of objective measures. Providing guidance to colleagues will be a subjective measure.

2. Do Periodic Performance Reviews

For an annual performance period, it is best to do quarterly reviews. It is important that at least one review is done mid-way before the final evaluation. This applies to both annual reviews and shorter projects.

Evaluating employee performance periodically is key to the success of the final evaluation. You will find that the review gives an opportunity for both employee and manager to get a similar level of understanding of what is expected of the employee. This will make your final evaluation less argumentative and less stressful as expectations are better understood.

It also provides an opportunity for the employee to make appropriate changes in how he is doing his work. To find out that he is not doing it correctly at the final evaluation is way too late.

These reviews should also be documented as a reference both to the manager and the employee.

3. Do The Final Employee Performance Evaluation

Some managers tend to write the final reviews on their own. This is not only time consuming, but typically you will find that the employee can get argumentative on the areas where the evaluation is not very good. This applies more to subjective measures. While objective measures may not face exactly the same difficulties as they are numeric, you will find that some employees will argue that the situation and circumstances were not conducive to achieving the numbers.

The better way to handle this is by getting the employees to do performance self evaluation. Provide them with the appropriate forms in which they will document their performance rating for each of the areas documented in the performance plan. Notes will need to be made to support the rating.

You will notice that when people do self evaluation, they typically will not go overboard on how they rate their performance. Even if they started off this way, as they write the supporting comments, reality will set in.

This is also where the periodic reviews play a big part. These reviews would have set the level of expectations against which the results are evaluated. It takes away the possibility of the employee not having clearly understood the performance plan.

You can then do the final employee performance evaluation based on the self evaluations submitted. The basic documents are already written for you. You only need to edit any changes and get them all formatted to a given standard.

It will be less stressful and argumentative during the review with the employee because of all the earlier steps you have taken.

While focusing on doing employee performance evaluations the easy and effective way, note that there are other benefits to be gained both by you and the employees.

As a manager or supervisor, you get the opportunity to inform in writing what is expected of the employee. Right at the beginning, any differences of expectations are cleared. During the periodic employee performance appraisals, any deviations are caught so that adjustments can be made to help achieve the planned objectives.

Both these activities provide the manager an opportunity to coach and guide the employee. The manager has played the role of the coach and the employee gets on-the-job guidance and feedback.

Employee performance management through these evaluations can be done the easy and effective way. It also provides a sense of satisfaction and achievement when you find that it also leads to a better working relationship with the employees. You will also find performance improving because of the methodical way of setting targets, guiding and measuring.

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By now people are discovering that downloading movies from the internet is great. It makes the movies you want accessible at the tip of your fingers.

Having this technology is great, it makes watching movies so much easier, but the question is, are these movies DVD quality? Are they living up vrs a DVD?

These are the questions anyone can ask, and it depends on what quality of the movie your downloading and the file type. For starters what you want to download is always a Divx Movie. Divx files are the newest type of files. What they do is they compress the audio and video and turn a normaly huge file into a new file that is about one third the size.

When you download a divx movie, it has a great DVD quality to it. It’s not exactly like a DVD but it can be good enough to stay at home downloading your movie.

When you download your movies, it’s pretty easy to burn them onto a DVD and watch them as many times as you like. But what I like to recommend, and do myself, is that I actually download movies as samples. If I download the movie, and enjoy it, then I will go ahead and buy it as a DVD.

Downloading DVD quality movies on the internet can take from 2 to 8 hours depending your conection, so I always recommend to download them from a high speed internet access computer. You also want to make sure you have over 500 MB’s of free disk space at minimum, and if you have over 1GB that’s optimal.

There are various software programs that give you access to download movies online. Some of them are good, because they have high speed downloads. There are places where downloading movies is based on a P2P system (peer to peer), which means that you are downloading the movie from another user. These can be great because you can get the best movies faster, although sometimes you have to be careful that the titles are confusing, meaning that you download one title thinking it was another one.

The advantage when downloading movies from these programs is that you are getting them for free. You pay for a one time fee and then you just fire up the software and you can inmediately start downloading movies. These are great, but just be warned that you might find the ocational user that confuses the title’s and you download Ace Ventura thinking you were going to get Scarface.

All in all downloading movies can be great, just make sure you support the movie industry and you buy the DVD’s you like, and always go to the movies to watch them.

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There is a big difference between how well you think your school is performing to how it actually is! You measure exactly how your business is performing accurately by keeping statistics like keeping score in a game.

Statistics are like the dials in an aeroplane’s cockpit; imagine getting on a plane with no dials! How comfortable would you be just relying on the pilot’s judgment on how fast and high he needed to fly, which was the right direction to go in and how much fuel he had left to get you safely to your destination? Scary thought right, well running your business without keeping statistics is exactly the same, your heading for a crash!

Statistics help you do the following:

Set goals and track your progress

You can set yearly and monthly goals for your school such as no of students or income to be achieved. Keeping daily statistics will help you to monitor your progress towards your goals and you can go back to previous statistics to help set future goals by realistically looking at previous performance.

Identify areas of weakness that you can get to work on

For example you had 10 inquiries in a week and only 2 were converted to appointment. This would tell you that something is going wrong with the telephone script – action, practice role playing the scripts.

Improve the results you get from the same number students

By being aware of figures you are currently achieving and working on systems to improve results.

i.e. your previous inquiry to appointment stat was 50%, so from 10 calls you made 5 appointments. You improved your percentage by 30% and you now achieved 8 appointments from those 10 calls, which means you have an extra 3 people that you have the opportunity to enroll in your school. That’s working smarter and not harder!

You can download the daily stats form from this section, record your statistics daily and then start reviewing them on a weekly basis.

“What You Are Aware Of, You Control, What You Are Unaware Of Controls You!”

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Online movie rental is popular. Like any service or product that sells a one billionth unit one must assume that it is valued, that the quality is high, and that customers are satisfied or it would not have reached such a mark. Indeed, the exclusive one billion club includes some pretty impressive members and in many cases members have had to endure for many years to attain membership.

In February 2007, Netflix, the founding online movie rental service, delivered its one billionth DVD. This was just beyond seven and half years after their initial offering in September 1999. Certainly, this was a milestone to celebrate for Netflix and one that reflects well upon the popularity of the service but how does it stack up to the achievements of other products and services which have attained this status?

One company that also recently hit the billion mark is Casio. In January of 2007, Casio sold its one billionth calculator. Impressive, however it took Casio approximately fifty years to reach this milestone. In 2049, when the online movie rental pioneer recognizes its fiftieth year, the 7 billion mark could be realized even if growth does not escalate. Will Netflix still be around? If it is, it will probably be a bit different, but it’s flexibility in adapting its service in response to changing technologies is a positive sign. The first step in moving toward electronic versus mail delivery was initiated earlier this year.

Computers are probably considered one of the biggest product introductions into the market during the past century. The growth of the internet was explosive in the 1990’s. However, it wasn’t until approximately 25 years after the introduction of personal computers that the one billionth unit was shipped back in 2002; and this was a worldwide market. Likewise, despite humble beginnings way back in 1969 the internet experienced its billionth user, worldwide, in December 2005; nearly 36 years later. The Netflix online movie rental service is a more local service; providing classic, indie, and new release films for an audience based in the US. Of course, all of this could change as electronic delivery takes hold in coming years; could Netflix become an international player?

Certainly, when one imagines “billions” being sold, the name McDonald’s is bound to crop up. We all know that many billions have been served but how long did it take them to reach their first billion? It appears that it took approximately 15 years after their introduction to achieve this status. At the time of course, McDonald’s was not the mega international corporation that it is now. In addition, families ate most of their meals at home in the early years of the fast food icon. Perhaps McDonalds and similar services played a role in changing how Americans dine; taking them out of the home for nearly half of their meals. This change certainly played a role in hitting the billion mark. Likewise, it would seem that online movie rental services are also changing how we obtain and view movies; first from the comfort of our homes and now on demand through electronic delivery.

Global markets certainly increase the likelihood of attaining the one billion mark and getting there fast. Mobile phones, probably more than any other product, have taken the world by storm in the past fifteen years or so. Clearly mobile phones are used globally. In addition, these devices perform a wide range of tasks that make them nearly indispensable in the modern world. From communication and entertainment to connectivity and personal assistant types of functions, mobile phones are multi-tasking wonders. It is estimated that at least one billion mobile phones were shipped in 2006 alone.

Apple’s iTunes has experienced similar success. After only three years in operation the service served up its one billionth download in Feburary 2006.

Online movie rental is not currently a global service like iTunes or mobile phones. Could this change? Perhaps. Certainly, iTunes has altered the way many people enjoy their music and mobile phones have changed the way we do business and stay in touch with others. Likewise, online movie rental appears to be gradually changing the way we enjoy movies. Perhaps recent changes to implement improved delivery will be the key to matching the success of mobile phones and the music downloads of iTunes.

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Gantt charts are useful tools for analysing, planning and controlling complex multi stage projects.

Gantt Charts can;

Assist in identifying the tasks and sub tasks to be undertaken

Help you lay out the tasks that need to be completed

Assist in scheduling when these tasks will be carried out and in what order

Assist in planning resources and needed to complete the project,

Assist in working out the critical path for a project where it needs to be completed by a particular date.

When a complex or multi task project is under way, Gantt charts assist in monitoring whether the project is on schedule, or not. If not, the Gantt chart allows you to easily identify what actions need to be taken in order to put the project back onto schedule.

An essential concept behind project planning is that some activities depend upon other activities being completed first. For example, it is not a good idea to start building the walls in an office block before you have laid the foundations; neither is it a good idea to put the cake mix into the tin without greasing the tin first.

These are dependent activities which need to be completed in a sequence, with each stage being more-or-less completed before the next stage can begin. We can call such dependent activities ’sequential’.

Non sequential activities are not dependent on the completion of any other tasks. These activities may be done at any time before or after a particular stage in the project is reached. These activities are called are nondependent or ‘parallel’ tasks.

To create a Gantt chart;

1. List all activities/tasks in the plan

For each task, show the earliest possible start date, how long you estimate the length of time it should take, and whether it is parallel or sequential.

If tasks are sequential, show which stages they depend on.

Head up a sheet of graph paper (using pencil and a ruler) with the days, weeks or months through to task completion on the top X-axis. The y-Axis can be used to itemise each task in its order. You may want to use an Excel Spreadsheet for this instead of graph paper if you prefer.

2. Plot the tasks onto the Plan

Next list the tasks in the first column on the left hand side of the page. (The Y-Axis) To draw up a rough first draft of the Gantt chart; Plot each task on the plan, showing it starting on the earliest possible date. Draw each task as a horizontal bar, with the length of the bar being the length of time you estimate the task will take. Above each task bar, mark the estimated time taken to complete the task. At this stage there is no need to include scheduling – all you are doing is setting up the first draft.

3 Schedule the tasks/activities

Now on a fresh sheet redraw the Gantt Chart to schedule actions and tasks. Schedule these in such a way that sequential actions are carried out in the desired sequence (e.g. dig holes, lay foundations, begin construction).

Ensure that these dependent activities do not start until the activities they depend on have been fully completed.

Where possible, schedule parallel tasks so that they do not interfere with sequential actions on the critical path. While scheduling, ensure that you make best use of the time and resources you have available. Do not over-commit resources and allow some time in the schedule for holdups, overruns, quality rejections, failures in delivery, etc.

Once the Gantt chart is drawn, you can see how long will it take to complete your project. The key steps to be completed to ensure successful completion of the project should be clearly visible.

In practice professional Project Managers use sophisticated software like MS Project to create Gantt charts. Not only do these packages make the drawing of Gantt charts easier, they also make subsequent modification of plans easier and provide facilities for monitoring progress against plans.

Tables and spreadsheets can also be used to create simple and easy to change charts without MS Project. Spreadsheets with coloured bars are most useful for the simplest projects.

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Do You Talk Too Much?

Have you ever noticed someone “talking” to themselves? What did you think? The words “crazy” or “nuts” probably popped into your mind.

Wait a minute though. Maybe they’re on to something.

“Excuse me?”

I mean, talking to yourself, i.e., speaking practice, can be effective in many different forms when learning English or another foreign language. Mimicking or imitating the speech of others is proven to be highly effective in developing native speaker level fluency in a language. You’ve already proven that to yourself.

How? That’s how you learned your first language (L1) whether it’s English, Spanish, French or some other language. You “mimicked” your Mother, Father, family, friends, teachers and whoever else was around making “talking” noises at you as you formed communicative language skills.

So don’t knock the “crazy” who’s talking to themselves. At least don’t knock it until you’ve tried it for yourself, in English or your new foreign language. Hey, do you remember comedian Groucho Marx? He did it all the time. If it worked for him, it can also work for you.

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As you go through your day, in English or your new foreign language, tell yourself what you’re doing at the moment and what you’re going to be doing during the day.

“I’ll have to buy some new safety razors next time I’m in the supermarket. This one’s starting to get dull”, you say aloud to yourself while shaving.

“Which of these shirts, ties, ties, etc. should I wear today? Not this one, I wore it just last week. Maybe this one, but I don’t like this color with these pants. Let’s try another one”, you might say as you are getting dressed.

If you live alone no problem, you can talk aloud all you want without any external consequences except for the dog or cat giving you “that look”. If you don’t live alone however, then first explain to your family or roommates what you’ll be doing, that is talking aloud, to avoid a quiet phone tip to the community mental health emergency via a 911 call while you’re in the shower.

Other Sources for Mimicking

For some other useful sources for mimicking practice, pick out a newscaster or announcer on the radio or TV. Record a segment of their broadcast for a few minutes. Then you have “seed” material you can use during any down time you might have. Movie clips and scenes, TV and radio commercials, soap operas, even local exclamations, expressions and advertising slogans can all help to springboard your fluency at breakneck speeds.

So mimic anyone and everyone you can, and talk aloud to yourself daily for even more speaking practice. Does this sound “crazy”, maybe, but like the Nike commercial says, “just do it”, and you’ll develop English, Spanish, French or other foreign language speaking fluency so fast it’ll surprise even you.

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The internet free movie war is on! Which side will you be on? Free movie sites are popping

up around the internet and one has received a great deal of publicity. The name of this easily

constructed site is Peek vid. Apparently Peek vid is run by a woman in Canada (not sure if this

is true). Peek vid offers a long list of free movies to watch and they are not the only site

offering free movies online. I reveal my “secret” free movie list on my movie review website.

Most young people are familiar with Peek vid and word of mouth spreads fast on the

internet, like maggots on a dead animal carcass. Movielink and CinemaNow have jumped

into the free movie online game. Both sites have a small selection of free movies, but will

build their lists as time goes on. Peek vid is amassing online traffic at a staggering rate, that

would make other movie sites swear like drunken sailors, on a hot Saturday night(girl not

included).

I am impressed with how Peek vid has listed their movies in alphabetical order and with the

exception of getting on my last nerve with pop-ups (Britney Spears/Jessica Simpson) the site is

easy to navigate. On a side note Britney Spears new bald look, reminds me of a girl who

survived a nuclear fallout. Hey! Maybe she could start acting on the new TV show “Jericho”.

On my site I list two free movie watching sites, which do not have annoying pop-ups! Firefox

is great for knocking out most of the pop-ups, but some sites have a pop-up shooter that will

leave you crying in the dark for mommy!

Movielink is the ultimate video on demand service, where you can rent or purchase your movies

online in three shakes of a lamb’s tail. Movielink offers you legal movie downloads from Universal

Studios, MGM, and Sony Pictures Entertainment(to name a few). Movielink gives you a plethora

of movies from such well-known studios, as Buena Vista Pictures(including Miramax) and Twentieth

Century Fox. I strongly support CinemaNow and Movielink, because you cannot beat

their amazing picture quality and they have a great deal of money invested in their movie

viewing software!

The movies are only available to users in the United States. CinemaNow has exploded into the

burn to DVD market. Both Movielink and CinemaNow are legal movie download sites and

they are playing at the top of their game! They have technology that will only get better

with the financial power support of their joint partners.

Movielink may not have the list of movies Peek vid does, but you will get better picture clarity

with Movielink. Although Peek vid does have some movies with good picture quality. The

controversy stirring around Peek vid and other free movie online sites, is the legality issues.

The free movie sites, including Peek vid state that they are not hosting the videos, but only

allowing the visitor to watch a free movie hosted by another online video site. Technically,

they make a good point and only time will tell, whether or not they survive. In the mean

time, I will list these sites and watch for the spine tingling conclusions! What would Spiderman

do?

So plug yourself into the computer “MATRIX” like Neo(Keanu Reeves) and get ready

for the free movie watching ride of your life! Will you choose Movielink or Peek vid? Will

you take the green pill or the red one? The choice is yours! So follow the white rabbit and

always wear a raincoat.

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If you have been looking at buying an LCD flat screen tv, no doubt you have read about the 120Hz models. You are probably wondering if the 120Hz models are worth the extra cost. The value of the 120hz feature has been widely debated in recent months. There are a number of things to consider before making your decision.

In the early days of the LCD vs Plasma tv wars, one of the biggest drawbacks to purchasing an LCD tv was that they were prone to motion blur and a somewhat choppy picture, especially in times when there was a lot of fast action such as sports or in movie scenes such as car chases. Although there has been a great deal of improvement over the years in the tvs ability to handle fast motion, LCD is still battling the stigma of not having as smooth of a picture as plasmas.

Enter the 120Hz tv. As a direct response, LCD manufacturers have incorporated 120Hz tvs into their newest tv models. These tvs have refresh rates that are twice as fast as the “standard” 60Hz models.

Those who are supporters of the 120Hz technology claim that the picture is noticeably smoother with crystal clear clarity, especially during fast action scenes or sports. Another benefit is the ability to produce an almost 3D-like picture.

On the other hand, others say that they can’t notice a difference when comparing side to side with the “standard” 60Hz models. They feel that the 120Hz models are simply marketing gimmicks to sell higher priced tv.

So who is right? As usual there is a middle ground. Put simply, a 120Hz tv will take a standard 60Hz signal and simply replicate it twice which by itself does little to enhance the picture quality. The real difference is made when applying a video processing feature for motion enhancement. Each company has there own name for this process. For example, Samsung’s feature is called AMP for Auto Motion Plus. This feature takes the screen and interpolates the image to provide a smoother picture to reduce judder.

Does the motion enhancement provide a more satisfactory picture? Again this is open to debate. Motion enhancement at its best provides a noticeably smoother, stable picture, free of jutter, motion blur and ghosting. Some describe gaming in 120Hz as making a 30 frames per second game look like a 60 frames per second game, while others are mesmerized by the ability to make sports and movies look live and 3D-like.

At its worst motion enhancement, especially during fast motion can introduce split second glitches in the picture called artifacts which can obviously be distracting. Others feel that while documentary type shows like Planet Earth can provide stunning stable live action shots, that motion enhancement takes away from the cinematic feel of movies by providing an almost too realistic, live tv or soap opera feel instead of a cinematic experience.

It is important to point out that motion enhancement can be turned on or off, so if you prefer to watch a movie without the motion enhancement you can simply turn it off.

For the time being the choice to go with a 120Hz LCD flat screen tv is purely one of personal choice and budget. Keep in mind that this is a very new technology and as with all new technologies there are still some things that need to be perfected. There is little debate that 120Hz is the wave of the future and that technology will only improve over time. If price is not of primary concern or if you can spare the extra dollars in an attempt to future proof your tv purchase then it would seem to make perfect sense to go with the additional features and benefits that a 120Hz LCD flat screen tv can offer. If price is a primary factor and you are working on a limited budget then one of the standard models would be a fine choice until the 120Hz models are perfected.

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The concept of downloading movies is not a new one. Fact is, the technology to stream or download movies has only become viable in the last year or so with many households adopting broadband or cable connection.

As a result, many movie download sites are popping out all over the internet. Here are some of the top movie download sites currently available that are legitimate.

1) Movielink

Movielink is a joint project of MGM studios, Sony Pictures, Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros and Universal Studios. That’s a lot of heavyweight companies supporting this site.

Currently, the movies are on a pay per view rental basis. That’s means you pay anywhere from 99 cents to $4.99 to watch each movie. It can last for 30 days and it has a pretty wide selection of current hollywood movies. Currently, it is only available in the US.

2) CinemaNow

CinemaNow is another top movie download site. They have a huge selection of movies around 1,200 but most of it aren’t new hollywood movies. You can either rent or buy a movie. If you choose to rent, it’s available for 24 hours and if you buy, it’s available indefinitely in your cinemanow’s digital library. You can even download and burn to dvd for some movies.

I recommend the subscription plan which is $29.95 per month if you watch a lot of movies since it is more worth while.

3) Vongo

Vongo is a relatively new movie download site. They offer a subscription plan of $9.99 per month where you can download and watch unlimited movies. There are premium pay per view movies which cost an additional charge and available for 24 hours upon payment. It’s currently only available in the US.

There are also many other top movie download sites available but you need to be careful as not all are legitimate and it is illegal to download pirated or bootleg movies.

Regardless of which top movie download site you choose, you need to have a fast broadband connection to be able to watch the movies smoothly. A large capacity hard disk is recommended if you plan to download the movies.

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