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Hi, I Did my Education in regional language up to 10th ,
I never gave attention to my study etc… I learned good technical skill / knowledge & I do have good job which is in technical field,
( computer Hardware field / IT ) .

I want to grow ..looking for good career…have learned good communication skill…
Am completing graduation ( B.com ) soon from distance learning in Regional language,

Wants to learn Good Mathematics skill (Am very poor in Mathematics ),
So can do Business analysis / Preparation of Reports / P&L, which will help me in day to day activity & for my Good career
Am Looking for managerial job etc. in future

Also Wants to learn more about managerial skill including effective public speaking, dynamic personality,
Effective communication skill, public handling skill, leadership etc

Pls. let me know the various ways to do this & acquire good Knowledge ASAP.
Good Response will be highly appreciated.

I am fresh out of college and don’t have any hands on experiencing although I have enough technical knowledge. Im going for entry level IT Technician jobs . Ive obviously left out personal details.

Any advice as im unsure of the format for the industry

Here it is :

I am an outgoing and an enthusiastic young person looking to develop a career in the IT industry. I particularly enjoy working as part of a team although I show good initiative when working alone. I am flexible and reliable on my approach to work and have a pleasant and easy gong personality

Education and Qualifications

Sep06 – June 08:South Kent College
BTEC National Diploma for IT Practitioners (M,M,P)

June 08: CompTIA Network+ Certification (Pending)

1994-1994: Astor College for the Arts

GCSEs included: English ( C,C)
Maths
Information Systems (C)

Skills

Technical:
•Competency in installing and configuring services such as DNS, DHCP and Active Directory (Windows server 2000/ 2003)
•Experience in PC building and hardware building/maintenance/upgrade
•Good Knowledge of TCP/IP based networks and LAN topology (Both physical and logical)
•Knowledge of WAN technologies including: Remote Access, ISDN, ATM, Frame Relay, etc.
•Basic programming skills (VB.net,HTML)

General
•Positive interpersonal and communication skills, able to communicate technical issues to non technical people
•Customer support experience
•Good Task management and organizational skills – can prioritize tasks in order of importance

Work Experience

Amanda’s Guest house - Administration assistant

I assist with the day to day running of a larger family owned guesthouse. My duties include liasing with customers and taking booking over the phone. We are currently in the process of developing a website that I will administrate and update periodically. Other duties include constructing the tenancy agreements for the long term tenants

William Hill Bookmakers – Cashier/Customer assistant
Main duties were to include taking bets from customers and then processing them with a computerized system. I also had to cash up till registers, managing my takings and work independently. On occasion I took on the role as assistant manager if other staff where not available

P&O Ferries – Steward
While onboard the cross channel ferries I worked in departments such as the duty free shop, bars, and restaurants. Occasionally I also took on the role as a security officer

Additional Information

I am a computer enthusiast and regularly have my computer in pieces upgrading and tuning it. I have also set up a small client/server network at home so I can practice network administration. I also enjoy keeping up with current affairs by reading the news, playing guitar and cooking

Do you as a young adult in High School feel to much attention and emphasis is placed on college and not enough on vocational/technical? Do you feel if more emphasis was placed on education for a career/trade immediatley after high school there would be less drop outs or students who do not care? Seems to me when my daughters were in High School all I ever heard about was what students had to do for college etc. Counselors spent all their time with the college bound. Do you feel if you are not going to college schools should be doing a better job preparing you for the working world.
I’ve always felt the Junior/Senior year should be geared for college prep for those planning to go OR vocational/technical for those who do not. There is no reason a young adult should leave high school and not at least be involved in a trade if they are not going to college. Seniors ARE adults and if not properly prepared for a decent trade after graduation then they tend to drift into and out of jobs. How many students are informed how much an Auto Tech, electrician, miilwright, machinest, etc. make.

I started my career in the Electronic field. With a 2 year degree in Electronics. I worked for a fortune 500 company for many years and worked my way into Process Engineering as a Technical Support Engineer without the BS Degree. Unfortunately the company moved a major section of its company to China. Now I am looking to either further my career in the same field but no luck finding a Job unless I have a BS Degree to back it up. With that I found that my 2 year college education is not usable because it is to old. These past couple weeks I have been working with a University and found I need to take the entire 4 year course to obtain a BS Degree. Now I am down to determining what it the best BS Degree to take in relation to seeking employment that will stay On-Shore (In the U.S.). I believe I have narrowed it down to Mech. Eng., Comp. Sci. or Teaching. Or may be even Civil, Structural Engineering.
Can any one give an outlook on jobs in the U.S. or suggested degree paths?

This question is designed as a poll to examine public opinion regarding curriculum in a secondary education setting? Common courses include Business, Family/Consumer Sciences, and Technology Education

I just got laid off from a $20 an hour job, wondering wether or not to go back to school and try to get out of workin labor and union jobs, but if i went back to school, I am not even sure what I would go into it. I am 24 years old and have responsibilities such as my apt, and other bills. I have no continued education and fear its too late to go back, and I am just seeking some opinions or something, maybe a 2 year technical school? I dont know, I worked with cars since I was 16 and gave that up, got into assembling Mining trucks and loved it but I cant deal with the constant lay offs. Can anyone share their experience or advice?

Today, I listened to a story about a talented student trying to choose among several different job offers. Each hiring organization offered the chance to become wealthy in 20 years but required that many years of 80-hour weeks to gain the money: The student faced four different ways to be a highly paid drone who would rarely be at home before 9 p.m. or enjoy a family life. Yuck!

Just a few hours later, I was reminded that substantial career advancement doesn’t have to be so difficult while reading career-planning notes that a former student of mine, Dr. T.A. Makoni, had sent me. His early career resembled the student in the story: Huge efforts promised big rewards down the road, but not much current advantage.

That career path became rockier after he failed a course during the third year of veterinary school. Because of the school’s rules, Dr. Makoni faced having to redo all of his courses for that year even though he passed the other courses.

He decided to step back and re-evaluate his commitment to a veterinary career, and he chose instead to become a dentist. This was certainly not an easier road because he had to start his professional studies all over again. He also faced the hurdles of needing money for this schooling and getting into a good program.

After carefully considering his choices, Dr. Makoni enlisted as an officer candidate in the Zimbabwe Army to gain a dental education. This decision presented major challenges because all of his training would be in Greece, and would be conducted in the Greek language. His first year in the army was dedicated to learning this new language far away from home. After that, he simultaneously studied dentistry and military leadership for seven years before graduating and beginning a dental internship in Greece.

Always open to new concepts, Dr. Makoni was fascinated by his wife’s MBA studies while they lived in Greece, often helping her with dissertation research. He saw that business concepts could be useful in accomplishing more in most other aspects of life.

After fourteen years in the army, Dr. Makoni retired as a captain, purchased an established dental practice in Zimbabwe, and began developing entrepreneurial opportunities. He soon found that adding a junior dentist as a partner brought increased profits without much more work.

Dr. Makoni began to appreciate that his dental practice would be more successful if he learned more about business. He enrolled in a distance MBA program based in England and soon graduated with distinction.

In the process, he learned a great deal about strategic thinking and began to apply what he had studied. His success in dentistry soon led to being elected to the National Executive Committee of the Dental Association and later to becoming the Chairman of the Practice Management Committee of the association. He also branched out by helping found a dental supply company to help reduce costs and improve materials for dentists in his country.

Dr. Makoni’s high intelligence and sound knowledge were recognized, and he was appointed as a part-time lecturer at the university where he earned an MBA and at Celebration College, a church-run school in Zimbabwe that offers Biblical and business training.

Dr. Makoni developed a bigger vision that built from the sound foundation of his success:

He would help entrepreneurs to live their dreams of providing new health care choices throughout Africa by providing financing, education, and leadership to them. He would help his church by serving in its educational ministry and providing financial support for its expansion. He would serve his family by developing financial independence from passive income sources so that he could spend more time with his family.

As you can see, he was beginning to realize that career success should lead to a richer life, not just a more bulging wallet. Rather than committing himself to longer hours at work and more time away from his family, Dr. Makoni chose to use his success to improve and spend more time with his family and church.

When a rocket takes off for space, the first stage engines and fuel are jettisoned after just a few seconds. But by building on the speed and momentum provided by the first-stage rocket, the payload can rapidly accelerate upwards into a higher orbit by firing a second-stage booster.

Dr. Makoni was looking for such a second-stage booster for his career. Having taken an enormous number of successful career steps up through earning an MBA, Dr. Makoni recognized that investing in earning a DBA (Doctor of Business Administration) degree could be that powerful second-stage booster that would carry him much further than excellent professional training, a good career, and an MBA degree could do.

Such breakthrough progress begins with ambitious goals. While many people would decide that they simply wanted to become more proficient in one or two areas over four years of DBA studies, Dr. Makoni set the following goals for his education so that he could gain the benefits faster:

1. Graduate in 15 or fewer months.
2. Retire from working as a dentist upon graduation while continuing to earn a living from passive income derived by dental partnerships and franchising.
3. Create multiple streams of investment income during the same time through investing in real estate, venture capital, and public securities.
4. Write a book on business leadership before graduation.
5. Begin doing international consulting and public speaking about business while earning his DBA.
6. Spend much more time traveling with his family after graduating.

When asked why he set such high goals, Dr. Makoni responded that these were the logical next steps of what he wanted to accomplish. With the proper mentorship and focus, he was sure these goals would be easily achievable.

How did he do? Except for his first and third goals, Dr. Makoni did better than planned.

1. Graduation followed in 16 months rather than 15.
2. A few months into his studies, he used one course assignment to develop a breakthrough business model for expanding his dental practice that allowed him to stop doing the work himself.
3. His investing on the Zimbabwe stock market grew substantially, and he began working with a real estate developer to create a larger investment base in this arena. Although he fell short of his graduation goal, he was well advanced in a program to reach that goal.
4. Before graduating, he completed one book, Nurturing Champions, that was published in 2006 and has sold well. He also wrote 10 of 14 chapters for a second book about entrepreneurial finance in Zimbabwe provisionally titled, Entrepreneurship on Trial.
5. He was asked to join the board of an entrepreneurial investment bank while still studying for his DBA.
6. A trip to Israel was his family was planned and paid for before his graduation, and the trip occurred just a few months later.

Since graduation, career progress has been substantial as well.

1. In 2007, Dr. Makoni was appointed director of Celebration College. The school is making fine progress towards being licensed as a university in Zimbabwe. Many new programs and courses have been added, and the student body is growing nicely.
2. His dental practice has been successfully expanded into Zimbabwe’s second largest city, Bulawayo. Opportunities for two further expansions are under study.
3. He helped start a new church in Bulawayo.
4. Since graduating, he has joined three more boards. In addition, he began speaking at business seminars sponsored by Celebration College where he serves as the program coordinator.

Dr. Makoni clearly made wise choices in setting high goals, getting the right help to prepare himself to achieve those goals, and working hard and intelligently to bring those goals to fruition.

With the career velocity that he has established, it’s hard to see Dr. Makoni as anyone other than a continent-changing leader in both the business and spiritual realms.

What do you want to accomplish?

What help do you need to be able to accomplish those goals?

Would going to a technical college which is regionally accredited, and offers associate’s degree when what I would like to do is have a career in computer-related fields, such as a computer networking person, things related to those fields? I do want to further my education by getting a bachelor’s degree, and maybe focus on master’s eventually, since the credits can be transferrable?I keep reading mixed reviews on how terrible a technical college is compared to community, or that it does not matter but what I choose?