...Edwards Saint Leo University Professor: Susan Gibbons Executive Summary Skills mismatches are one of the most common challenges faced by the economy. Observations show that in far too many cases, workers are not well-matched with their current jobs ("Skills mismatch," 2012). The economy is seeing increasing numbers of job vacancies but their unemployment rates are not going down. This is because many of the workers who lost their jobs due to the economic downturn do not have the skills the market now demands. In the actual workplace management is often finding themselves taking an unusual amount of time talking with their employees about what went wrong on the prior project and how can they fix, or noticing employees are trying to play catch up, working overtime and missing deadlines. These are collective concerns and are often related with the organization being understaffed, but also can be affected by a skills mismatch. Skills Mismatches Skills mismatches denote a lack of fit between people’s skills or qualifications and their jobs’ skill requirements (Mello, 2011, p. 270). There are two types of skills mismatches over-and under qualification. Over qualified employees have skills and/or education that exceed the skills required to perform a job. Under qualified employees typically are ones’ with a high school diploma or less. When a person is in a position that does not match their skill level a mismatch has occurred. Mismatches are likely to have widespread negative...
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...language skills. South Africa journal of education, 31, 475-487. This journal reported the findings of a survey about the influence of short message service (SMS) to the student. This language will impact on the written language skills of student at school. According to the writer, the most of influence are on their spelling, sentences length and on their punctuation. Furthermore, the educators agreed that they perceive SMS language in written language to lead to poor grades in English Home Language as a subject and may cause learners to have diminished knowledge of correct Standard English. This perceived influence can be described according to its perceived nature and degree. The nature of the perceived influence of SMS language includes the encountering of spelling adaptations that are based on the SMS language categories, shortening of sentences and incorrect punctuation use. The majority of educators encounter G-clippings and non-conventional spellings. Sentence structure and length is also perceived to be influenced as sentences are shortened and simplified. Furthermore, punctuation is also perceived to be influenced. The incorrect use of full stops, commas and exclamation marks are encountered the most in learners’ written language tasks. The perceived degree of the influence of SMS language on written tasks includes the regular occurrence of nonconventional spellings (large degree of influence). The shortening of sentences seldom occurs (small degree of influence). Full stops...
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...Personal Responsibility and College Success By: Kami Redenbaugh Gen/201 April 14, 2014 Mr. John Martinous Personal responsibility is the willingness to both accept the importance of standards that society establishes for individual behavior and to make strenuous personal efforts to live by those standards. (Google’s Definition) What are personal responsibilities and college success? To me personal responsibilities consist of being accountable for my everyday life and that of my children. My life at the moment consists of being a full time mother and working full time job while furthering my education so that I will be able to better provide for my children. Personal responsibility is juggling home, work and school and being successful in all that I do. There are days it seems as though it is not possible, but as I look at what my parents taught me I find it gives me the strength to continue on in my career. I step back and look at the big picture and see where adjustments might need to be made and then take it one step at a time. Otherwise, it becomes very overwhelming. "Nonetheless, character – the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life – is the source from which self-respect springs." ( Joan Didione 2010) For me, I have been able to achieve my goals by sticking with my program. I make sure that everyone’s schedule works together. I have had to make a few adjustments with my work schedule so that everything is more balanced. I am able to get my school...
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...creating a positive, productive and fun learning environment for children. In this large group of over fifty people, I demonstrate cooperative orientation and I display openness and supportiveness. We all have one aim in the group and that is to accomplish success in everything we do. We are all assign different tasks through the school year and making time to do so can be very challenging. Most of the parents work full time jobs and meetings are usually after work. For this we try to help each other by working around everyone’s schedule and planning ulterior methods or substitution. We all do our fair share in the group. We are all solely responsible for different areas within the committee. We are all mature, family orientated, motivated parents who come together to set leadership examples to our children. Therefore social loafing is minimal to none. We do socialize with each other also there are some friendships that came out of the group but we do have boundaries and respect other. Like everything else there is time and place for everything. We all take full responsibility in monitoring each others behavior, this helps in preventing unwanted...
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...past two decades. Japan is one of today’s largest manufacturing economies. Starting from the early 1990s; Japan experienced economic recession that led to a dramatic decline in company positions available for prospective high school and university graduates. This was the start to an end of a favorable situation for the young Japanese job seekers, which had prevailed for a long time; and presented a great opportunity for most of these young job seekers to acquire permanent employment. During the same period, there was a great increase in the number of young people engaging in various unstable forms of employment, for instance, temporary part time workers referred to as “freeters.” “Freeters” is an expression in Japanese; for people who lack full time employment with the exception of students and housewives. These freeters earn their income from low skilled thus low paid jobs. In 1982, japan had approximately 0.5 million freeters, by 1987 the number had risen to 0.8 million, and 1.01 million in 1992. The estimates for 1997 were 1.5 million, 4.17 in 2001, and 2 million in 2002. Between the years 2000 and2009, there was a rapid increase in the number of freeters. If the trend continues, there will be more than 10 million freeters in japan by the year 2014. From a survey conducted by the Japanese institute of labor, Freeters work in supermarkets and food stores, some are self-employed, and others work online from their homes in this era of internet. An average freeter earns approximately...
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...Chad Conger Mrs. Yoakum English105 17 October 2012 Summary In the article “Working Life” the author, Nisha Ramachandran, explains how working during your time in college can affect your life in many ways, but ultimately being a student should come first. Ramachandran opens up by elaborating on the average cost of college and how it can be overwhelming at times. She says, “ 74 percent of full-time students juggle work and school.”(292) Additionally 46 percent of those students work 25 hours or more in a week, and 20 percent work full time. Ramachandran also states that students should look for co-op programs that employ students into fields of their studies. The article explains that these carriers often pay better due to the amount of skills needed. Along with money, these co-op programs offer a look into the actual life of a possible future profession for the student. Ramachandran informs on the benefits of tuition reimbursement to student-employees. She states that these companies help a student with their school costs as well as money in pocket. As well as filling your pockets the author explains how building a solid resume while in college is also important. Ramachandran sums up her article with explaining how important your schoolwork can be. She states some helpful tips; do not expect to pay off college while still in college. The author brings everything into perspective by explaining that students that work 10 hours a week on average have a much better GPA...
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..._______________ refers to working full time for poverty wages, working part time when full-time work is desired, or working at a job below the worker’s skill level. 4. Question : The evidence used to support the notion that the nuclear family is dying usually includes factors such as: ___________ 5. Question : The ____________ is the proportion of the labor force that is not working but is available for work and has made specific efforts to find work. 6. Question : The work place death rate has been cut by more than half since 1970 by ___________. 7. Question : At best, you can say that the greater happiness and satisfaction reported by the better educated may reflect _______________. 8. Question : According to the text, _______________ 9. Question : The voting percentage for people who have four or more years of college is ________. 10. Question : The notion your sense of worth and the satisfaction of your needs are intricately related to the kind of work you do is called __________________. SOC 402 Week 4 Quiz Purchase here http://chosecourses.com/soc-402-week-4-quiz Description Multiple Choice 10 10 Grade Details 1. Question : Which of the following has the highest divorce rates? 2. Question : The number of years of education completed by a student is a measure of educational ___________. 3. Question : The term _______________ refers to working full time for...
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...Unit 2: Business Resources (10 Credits) Assessment Sheet Name: ……………………………………………………………………………… | | | | | |Assessment Criteria |Achieved | | |Describe the recruitment documentation used in a selected organisation | | |Pass 1 | | | | |Describe the main employability, personal and communication skills required when | | |Pass 2 |applying for a specific job role | | | |Describe the main physical and technological resources required in the operation of a | | |Pass 3 |selected organisation | | | |Describe sources of internal and external finance for a selected business | | |Pass 4 | | | | |Interpret the contents of a trading and profit and loss account and balance sheet for...
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...of their shopping needs. Sales executives will also oversee the retail assistants to check on their progress and to see if there are any other tasks that are outstanding. Good social skills are required as you will be working with people throughout the day, working alongside them and selling to them. * This is a brief description of what the job entails and how the candidate’s personal skills will come into play in the job role. * * * * * * * * The candidate must demonstrate they are able to follow the following tasks as their role as a Part time sales executive: A sales executive will be working the ground floor, serving consumers and helping them if they need assistance with any of their shopping needs. Sales executives will also oversee the retail assistants to check on their progress and to see if there are any other tasks that are outstanding. Good social skills are required as you will be working with people throughout the day, working alongside them and selling to them. * This is a brief description of what the job entails and how the candidate’s personal skills will come into play in the job role. * * * * * * * * The candidate must demonstrate the following criteria in terms of skills: The candidate must demonstrate an excellent track record in retail ideally with a premium brand. They must be loyal, trustworthy & responsible. Consistently delivers an amazing...
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...learned from researching on the web. Once we employed these links, the company started receiving money that was not earned before. I realized that the key to contribute successfully is to look for improvement in the current process and figure out a way to yield the desired result. In this case, I used the Internet to help me achieve my vision. Since then, I have found the Internet to be a powerful tool for my career. Whenever I need to know how to write certain excel macros or find best practices, I go to the Internet to help me do my job more effectively and efficiently. Even though I was offered a full time job in Austin, I decided to join EY Assurance group in Houston, to be with my family and to apply my Accounting degree. At EY, I was exposed to clients of different size in variety of industries. The different assignments strengthened my analytical and problem-solving skills. After enjoying this productive and educational experience, I wanted to learn the operations side. I accepted the offer from Goodman Manufacturing to work in Internal Audit Department to be exposed to company’s operations, and SOX-IT and SOX Financial Controls testing. In my first few months at Goodman, I worked on P-Card audit with a senior and also performed SOX-IT controls testing. Testing SOX-IT...
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...Each situation is different, whether or not a parent is healthy determines on the factors involved. Jessica O'Connor COM/155 May 26, 2013 Peter Conrad In regard, to the decision of what is in the best interest of the children parents need to examine if they are truly healthy and happy with the choice they made to either return to work after the child (ren) have been born or whether working part time can provide the satisfaction needed or if staying at home is the best choice in the end. Examining the social, mental, physical and other aspects of health to determine if parents are really healthy after the decision has been made. Parents also assess the decisions associated with the cost and welfare of the children involved and how those issues play in the role of their health. Another aspect parents face is the choice of who will stay home with the children, can parents maintain a healthy and happy lifestyle with only one income. Evaluating the situation of whether or not to put the child in day care or perhaps with a family member can bring unhealthy distress upon the parents involved, even more so when they don’t have family nearby. Those who have children and choose to be more involved rather than returning to work, do not always notice their unhealthy lifestyle and the risks involved. Maintaining a healthy lifestyle 100% of the time will benefit the family as a whole, no matter what the job description is. The decision that parents make is a personal one and one...
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...Australian Council for Educational Research ACEReSearch LSAY Research Reports Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth (LSAY) 3-1-1999 The effects of part-time work on school students Lyn Robinson ACER Follow this and additional works at: http://research.acer.edu.au/lsay_research Part of the Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research Commons Recommended Citation Robinson, Lyn, "The effects of part-time work on school students" (1999). LSAY Research Reports. Longitudinal surveys of Australian youth research report ; n.9 http://research.acer.edu.au/lsay_research/18 This Report is brought to you by the Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth (LSAY) at ACEReSearch. It has been accepted for inclusion in LSAY Research Reports by an authorized administrator of ACEReSearch. For more information, please contact repository@acer.edu.au. Published 1999 by The Australian Council for Educational Research Ltd 19 Prospect Hill Road, Camberwell, Victoria, 3124, Australia. Copyright © 1999 Australian Council for Educational Research ISBN 0 86431 324 1 &RQWHQWV Tables ...................................................................................................................................................... iv EXECUTIVE SUMMARY .......................................................................................................................... v INTRODUCTION................................................................................
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...The Effects of Employment on Academic Performance of Australian Accounting Students Dr Anura De Zoysa School of Accounting and Finance University of Wollongong Wollongong, NSW 2500 Australia Tel: 61 2 42215382 Fax: 61 2 42214297 E-mail: anura@uow.edu.au And Dr Kathy Rudkin School of Accounting and Finance University of Wollongong Wollongong, NSW 2500 Australia Tel: 61 2 42213148 Fax: 61 2 42214297 E-mail: krudkin@uow.edu.au The Effects of Employment on Academic Performance of Australian Accounting Students ABSTRACT This study examines factors that impact students engaged in paid employment while studying in a tertiary accounting program in a regional Australian university. It examines the differences in experience of domestic and international students. No direct significant relationship was found between paid employment and academic performance for the overall study sample. There was a positive relationship found between paid employment and academic performance with respect to domestic students. However, in the case of international students a negative relationship between paid employment and academic performance was observed. A significant positive relationship between a shift work pattern of paid employment and academic performance was found. The Effects of Employment on Academic Performance of Australian Accounting Students 1. Introduction This study makes a contribution to the literature...
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...It is the very choices that mold persons and takes them from childhood to adulthood. If managed properly it makes us mature, able to navigate through life’s challenges. As an adult, you are in control of your actions, your failures and your successes. Linda Galindo said it best “When you are truly responsible, you believe success or failure is up to you, even if you work within a tea or are blindsided by unforeseen circumstances”. (L. Galindo) In order to be mature you must take seriously your personal responsibility, not accepting personal responsibility will make a person inadequate for decision making. Leaving them possessing the thinking of a child. Although personal responsibility is every person’s charge, it is not a given skill. It must be developed. Most times this development is early in a person’s life and is done at home with the person’s parents and teachers. Here in the beginning you should learn that as a person you are responsible for the outcome of your decisions. When I was a child, as the eldest, I had to watch my siblings, a lot. Babysitting was the bane of my existence. I disliked it because if anything happened, regardless to who did it, it was always my fault. This always seemed unfair to me, I would express that to my mother, and she would reply, “Life isn’t fair, Kesha.” At the time, I did not understand what she meant. Living life with its bumps and bruises has helped me see the meaning of that statement and also it’s affect. It is...
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...not required in college, such experience will prove that you are proactive about career development. 2. Internships help you learn more about yourself. Through an internship, you can gain clarity on your strengths, weaknesses, and interests. Equally important, you can also learn what you don’t enjoy doing. 3. Internships enhance your resume. Worried about having a solid resume? Internship experience can fix that concern. 4. Internships help you sell yourself in interviews. Worried about what you will discuss in an interview for a full-time job? Internship experience helps you overcome that obstacle also. 5. Internships increase your professional confidence. By interning, you can confront and overcome the “fear of the unknown” that you may have about what it’s like to work in a professional environment 6. Internships improve your communication skills. The #1 skill employers look for in job candidates is strong communication skills. By interacting with others in a professional environment during an internship, you will have many opportunities to become a better communicator. 7. Internships help you prove yourself in the “real-world.” Academic success...
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