Education and Career for Youth

Archive for December, 2010

In the midst of competition and difficulties in employment, many workers will no longer pay attention to whether or not a career ladder for the job. The important thing they had in mind was how to keep a job so they have income. Such conditions allow so many employees are in the same position for years. Not to mention the workers who are passive are already felt in the “safe zone”, the desire to gain new experiences and rise to a higher level again, it might be very thin.

Conditions as above must be brought to the attention of an HR manager wise. Career path is not merely something that is sought or made by each worker, but must be created and provided by the owner of the job. If in case the workers do not get the progress of his career then it is possible he will find his own path by looking elsewhere.

For example, someone who worked in the finance department, may be felt to have a more secure future because of the existence of a clear career path. But how those who became secretary of, whether they will feel that they do not have career paths that lead to them would be secretary as long as they work? This is where Human Resources practitioners are expected to design a career path (career path) and its development accordingly. This will also affect the persistence of its best employees and also fulfill the need of talent in the future.

When a worker feels that the road was clear and he was ditapakinya even know where the direction he walked, then he will do his job so confident that automatically affect the productivity of work. But if he feels that way is not necessarily the direction ditapakinya, even he found the barrier, then it is likely to seek other opportunities that would become so big.

Formulate a career path is right and just did absolutely must be observed. This involves the ability to build a career development system which must be in accordance with company philosophy. In addition, the readiness of the positions that are necessary and important, must be considered is to prepare standard operating and procedure (SOP) as well as test tools required to help the employees know the plan of his development. -Tier career path that has been built to be repaired constantly, including when there are changes in structure and corporate strategy.

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The Dutch government wants to make higher education in the country easily accessible by students and professionals from various countries, including Indonesia. In Holland, higher education get a subsidy.  This means that tuition fees could be reduced quite low.

To that end, the Dutch government quite a lot of offers exchange programs and scholarships as the easiest and cheapest way to continue his studies at the State Windmills. Exchange programs are often directed to one area or a particular discipline.

About scholarships, www.grantfinder.nl site can be used as a reference and a warehouse full of information to find scholarship programs available to prospective students who wish to continue study in the Netherlands. Three well-known scholarship programs this country is the Netherlands Fellowship Programme (NFP), which consists of NFP Master NFP Short Course, and NFP PhD; Huygens Scholarship Programme; and Studeren in Nederland (StuNed).

In Indonesia, Nuffic Neso Indonesia has also become the information center also administers several scholarship programs, ie NFP, Huygens Scholarship Programme, and StuNed.

Then, why should the Dutch?

During this time, some of the reasons students chose to continue his studies of Indonesia to the Netherlands is a multicultural and open society, an international study environment, education and research quality and diverse, it lies in the middle of the European continent, as well as values for money.

The last reason could be translated that education in the Netherlands is not free. Only, tuition fees are relatively affordable in the country. Results of a survey on the cost of living in the world shows that the cost of living in Amsterdam is lower than other big cities in the world, like New York, London or Paris.

Technical writing is a specialised form of writing.

Its goal is to help readers use a technology or to understand a process, product or concept. Often these processes, products or concepts are complex, but need to be expressed in a much simpler, reader-friendly form.

So within the technical writing genre, you will find: technical reports, installation and maintenance manuals, proposals, white papers, on-line help, process standards, work instructions and procedures.

While each discipline has its specific requirements, some basic elements are common. But before looking at those, the most important thing a technical writer must consider is the audience.

Audience:

How familiar are readers with the subject and with the specialised terms and abbreviations you need to use?
What is the best way to explain those terms or shortened forms – footnotes, endnotes, glossary, table of abbreviations, appendix, links?
Do you need to accommodate secondary readers (e.g. the manager or financier who will make the decision about the proposal), and how will you do that?
Now for those all-important elements:

Clarity – The logical flow of the document will help readers understand the content. It can be useful to ask someone who is not familiar with the topic to review your writing before you finalise it. Using headings, illustrations, graphs or tables can be useful – your aim is to make it as easy as possible for your readers to understand what you’ve written. Consider how the way the text sits on the page or screen – another clue to maximising clarity for your readers.
Accuracy – The information and the interpretation of data that you present must be accurate. If it’s not, your readers will question the credibility of the content. Be careful to clearly differentiate between fact and opinion, and to accurately cite references to other works.
Brevity – Strive to find the balance between the amount of information presented and the time needed to read the document. Remember that you can use an appendix or link to provide supplementary or background information. Consider using an illustration, table or graph rather than words to explain a concept – but remember, if you use a ‘visual’, don’t give a long written explanation.
Sentence length – Generally, complex or unfamiliar concepts are best presented in shorter sentences. This will give readers time to digest small pieces of information before moving on to the next. While this can be difficult to achieve, try to aim for approximately 25 words per sentence. If you find you’ve written a series of long sentences, look for ‘and’, ‘but’, ‘however’ and similar words where you can break the sentence.
Paragraphs – The age-old rule about one topic per paragraph is a useful guide. That doesn’t mean that you can have only one paragraph for each topic, but it does mean that having only one topic in each paragraph makes for clear, logical writing.
Reader-centricity – You are writing for your readers. Make it as easy as possible for them to understand your work.
Keep these basic elements and other principles in mind as you undertake your technical writing tasks.

Homeschool will help answer your questions about homeschooling, things that become my questions when I first consider homeschool.

Why homeschool?

This is the first time I ask. Why would anyone want to homeschool? Am I really interested to homeschool? Is homeschool appropriate for me?

Myths and facts

What about the socialization of children? This is the first question whenever people talk about homeschool. Pages myths and facts will give the real picture of homeschooling.

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