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Education:
While in education there are lots of options to take, for example after collage there is:
further education, training, full time degrees, part time degrees, foundation degrees,
bachelor degrees and masters degrees these are different types of degrees that can be
taken after collage - to get a professional job at any profession you will need some form of
degree, as well as this you will need some work experience/work at a pervious job.
To develop a good career path you will need good grades and work experience in order to
get the good grades collage and university and important, the qualifications given by
universities vary and are also shown above - full time degrees, part time degrees,
foundation degrees, bachelor degrees and masters degrees and PhD the better the
qualification the longer it will take to complete the coerce for example a PhD (the best
qualification) takes around four yea5rs to complete an example of a job that requires a
PhD is a doctor etc. Most professions will have higher ups people who are higher up the
pay roll etc. Another example of PhD related jobs would be a lecturer at a university.

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Full time degree:
A full time degree means that the student on the course is eligible for a student loan,
bursaries, scholarship and to stay in residence. To keep a full time degree the student has
to enrol in at least 60% of the courses required each semester.
A full time degree is normally 9am 5pm every week day, a PhD requires full time degree
instead of part time degree, as well as the 9-5 full time courses usually require a lot of
additional study. Most people on a full time degree would have given up work so that they
can have the time to attend classes and do extra studying.
The most common full time degree is a masters degree which is the second highest
degree, below a PhD.

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Part time degree:
A part time degree is better for studying and working together if you want to go to
university but continue with your job. Part time would be better to gain qualifications and
work experience at the same time, however most of the part time degrees will under
masters qualifications as they wont have as much time to learn/study as a full time
student is on a full time schedule where as part time degrees are only on certain days of
the week instead of a full time degree which is every week day 9asm 5pm. Part time
degrees are less hours but are still on a weekly schedule for example 15 hours a week
and the degree has Monday, Wednesday and Friday in for 5 hours a day (9am 1pm etc.)
etc.
If you dont live in the Uk, are not an international student and dont depend on the on the
degree you will not ne allowed to take courses that are under a certain amount of time
per week.

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Foundation degree:
A foundation degree is the equivalent to 2/3 of a full honours degree. Foundations degrees
are fully flexible qualifications allowing students the to work part time or full time based
on what the student wants to do and their lifestyle e.g. students with a part time job can
do a part time foundation degree and continue working alongside the course whereas
other students without jobs can study full time etc.
A foundation degree is a level of qualification that that combines academic and work
placement as the course can be part time allowing the student to gain work experience at
a job while still getting a degree.
A full time foundation degree normally takes two years to complete, a part time
foundation will take a year longer (three years) as you wont be in as much as the full
time students. In foundations degrees the degree is worth 2/3 of an honours degree, the
ability to turn the foundation into an honours degree takes an extra year for full time
students and an extra two years for part time students as they arent in as much as the
full time students.

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Bachelor degree:
A bachelors degree takes around three to five years to complete, this depends on the
fields of study (what the course it about e.g. music or media or math etc.) (the image to
the top right is of a certificate for a bachelors degree).
A bachelors degree can lead to a job in medical work, this is by going to universities
called medical school, the medical schools offer a three year course for a bachelors
degree an example of a UK medical school is the University of St Andrews Bute Medical
School. In the three year bachelors course it involves one year (first year) of foundation of
medicine foundation degree in medicine, then the next two years in honours/bachelors
course in dissertation.
A Bachelors degree is post-secondary degree awarded to someone after completing the
eight semesters in the course.

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Masters degree:
A masters degree is a degree that is awarded to individuals who have undergone study
demonstrating a mastery or high-order overview of a specific field of study/an area of
professional practice. (in the top right of the page there is an example of what the
masters degree looks like)
The duration of the course varies with each country, it can be anything from three to six
years of study, this is normally 6 to get the foundation degree, then move up to honours,
then bachelor and then masters degree but the masters section of the whole course will
take anything from 1-6 years itself.
There are a lot of different types of masters degree, here are a few variations listed: M.A.,
M.S., M.Ed., M.E.B., M.Des., M.N.C.M., M.S.N., M.S.W., M.P.A., M.P.C., M.P.P., M.P.H., M.C.,
M.C.A., M.Couns., M.L.A., M.L.I.S., M.Div., A.L.M.,N.T.P M.M., M.B.A., M.Tech., M.I.T.B.,
M.B.E., M.Com., M.M.C., M.I.B., M.I., P.S.M these are all masters degrees however they
are all different variations of a masters degree.

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Work experience:
Work experience is normally at high school or collage, where you are taken out of collage or high
school and sent to a job for a week or two to work and gain work experience. However all of the
previous jobs you do can also count towards work experience as you gained experience from
working at the job.
Work experience is another way to develop a professional job path. As well as good grades e.g.
PhD top paying jobs will also look for people with experience in the same field as the job they are
applying for, this is so they know the applicant has an understanding of the field.
Work experience is any job youve had for example if you used to work at a factory on your CV
there should be a section in Experience/Work experience where Factory work is mentioned along
with a description of the job and how long you worked there for etc.
For professional development good ways to get work experience would be ether promotions on
the CV it would show the jobs getting better in the timeline or volunteer work. By volunteering for
a charity work placement it makes the CV look better. An example of work experience making a
CC look better is two applicants for a computer game design job, one applicant has no experience
in the field of games design but the other applicant has 5 years experience at a major games
design firm. The seconds one already understands the work place where the first one would need
to be trained on how to do certain tasks etc.

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Skills analysis:
Skills analysis, e.g. personal skills, technology skills, personal development plan e.g.
what are you good at, how good are you on a computer etc. Most of the time people will
write this type of information down on their CVs.
Skills analysis is a part of your CV were you can paste in a graph, table, list or graphic
showing you different skills, this can be modified to suit the jobs you apply for, for
example at a computer based company you can list all of the software you can use and
how well etc.
(In the top right of the page) This is an example of one of the tables used to show skills
analysis this would be put on a CV and all of the relevant skills would be wrote on the
left and how well each of them can be performed is written on the right.
In skills analysis people might exaggerate there skills to seem better than they actually
are, in a CV this is true as they are competing with other people and by lying on the
skills they can seem better than they actually are e.g. Photo shop 5/5, Dream weaver 5/5
etc.

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Training on the job:
Some jobs available will start at entry level meaning the job is minimum wage and the tasks
are very basic, in the job you will receive training so whilst you are doing the job you will be
taught how to compete other tasks, this happens when a large company want to employ
people and train them up to work at the company.
Training on the job (or OJT on the job) is training which takes place in a working environment
the employee is receiving training and pay as they are training for the job whilst actually
doing the job. OJT can also be called direct instructions and this is one of the easiest forms of
OJT as the employee basically watches the trainer complete the tasks then try themselves.

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Skills analysis:
Skills analysis includes personal skills, technology skills and personal development
plan.
Personal skills can be varied on the person, for example people can have personal
skills in computers e.g. adobe and programming and other people can have personal
skills in sports, e.g. football, basketball etc. All different skills can be classed as
personal skills, these can also be written down on #CVs and the CV can be tailored
to the job e.g. going to work for apple personal skills: programming, adobe, apple
software etc.
Technology skills are all of the things you can do with a computer or phone or tablet,
this includes things like coding or programming, in coding and programming there
are certain levels you can reach, there are also some universities/collages that would
have degrees/ grades in coding and programing to develop programming skills.
Personal development plan would be to continually better your personal skills, this
could be by working and trying to get promotions or to go to university to study and
better your skills that way.

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Sources of information:
Trade union and career service are both sources of information.
Trade union: this is an organisation of workers in a trade/group of trades/profession
formed to protect and further their rights and interests.
Career service: Career services are basically help finding, applying and getting job,
online there are thousands of different websites that all help people to get jobs.
Sources of information can be from the internet or a library, online by searching for
something hundreds of thousands of results/millions of results will appear giving you
information on all different topics. In a library it is the same as there are thousands of
book with a wide range of information being covered.

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Personal attitudes:
In a job attitude is important e.g. wellington complete tasks etc.
Personal attitude is very important with skills, skills depend on attitude as people who are
unmotivated etc. wont have as many skills as someone who is highly motivated as they wont
be enthusiastic about learning new skills.
(image to the top right of the screen) is an example of bad attitudes to work the image may be
hard to see so it says Always give 100% at work in big bold letters, this is good work ethic but
the joke is in the black box as it breaks down the 100% and lists Monday to Friday e.g. 13%
Monday, 5% Friday etc.
By having a negative personal attitude, learning skills and improving skills will be increasingly
difficult as being in a bad aptitude would be unmotivated, not enthusiastic etc. By being in a
positive, enthusiastic attitude, learning skills and improving skills will be a lot easier.

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Knowledge and skills:
Some skills that you learn at a job could be handy in other jobs these are
transferable skills, an example of transferable skills would be skills on a computer as
computers are used in lots of jobs and are becoming more and more built in to the
jobs tasks.
Knowledge and skills are very different, for example someone with a PhD and no
work experience will have a lot more knowledge than someone who has high school
level education, however if the person with high school education worked straight
after leaving school they would have around 6 years of work experience and would
have a lot more skills than someone who focused only on grades and didnt get any
work experience. To get a good job a mixture of the both is required, an example of
this is a university course along side a part time job to receive work experience and
knowledge.
In work experience there are a lot of transferable skills, for example applying for a
certain field of work with the same field for work experience is good as you probably
already know some of the basics of the field of work. With knowledge this skill isnt
transferable but with knowledge is easier to gain more knowledge e.g. you would
know how to get information and know how to study a subject.

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Commitment:
Commitment is like personal attributes/attitudes commitment to the job is important as in a job the
tasks need to be completed if the employee isnt committed to the job they wont do a good job
and wont finish the job/wont finish the job on time etc.
Things like: Efficiency, reliability, attendance, punctuality, self respect and functional skills are also
important 8in a job, these mean that the employee will be on time, look presentable, complete jobs
6to deadline and have functional skills such as ICT, English, Maths etc. Without these the employee
will not do any of the above -= show up late, not do any work etc. Would get fired.
With skills, commitment is important as learning a skill can be difficult, therefore by having good
commitment to learning the skill it will b easier to learn rather than giving up and not learning the
skill because it got difficult.
By committing to learning skills you can improve yourself and get a better chance and improve
chances at getting a promotion/job/better job etc. This is due to more skills (e.g. multi skilled worker)
means a better overall job.

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Efficiency:
Efficiency means the speed of tasks, for example doing something quickly is efficient as it
takes up less time than slowly completing a task.
Efficiency is a transferable skill as efficiency is a useful skill in all jobs, by doing things
efficiently it uses less time, resources and money efficiency is also doing a job correctly
the first time e.g. fixing something with materials, by being efficient you can complete the
tasks quickly and not mess up dont need extra material less cost etc.
Jobs that pay with piece work are good for efficient people as a piece work job pays per
piece each employee makes by being efficient the employee can make a lot of money.
Another meaning is the ratio of the useful work performed by a machine or in a process to
the total energy expanded by heat taken in.

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Reliability:
Reliability definition is the quality of being relabel, another definition is la work which yields the
same results reliable the experiment is reliable etc. People can be reliable in a number of
different ways, for example a 1 parent household the parent is reliable as they would get
money, support everything etc. Reliability is a transferable skill as employers look for reliable
people they would get the tasks complete in time and would arrive punctually to work. The
ability to be reliable depends on accuracy, honestly and achievement.
Reliability is a good transferable skills to have as being reliable is good, if you arent reliable
people wont trust you as you werent reliable last time e.g. planning events people wont turn
up if you arent reliable. Employers might not trust you as much if you arent reliable e.g.
dealing with money employer might ask someone else to handle the money etc.

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Attendance and punctuality:
Being punctual is a good transferable skill to have as it means you arent late to
anything (meetings, events etc.) instead you are either on time or early in jobs
employers will look for punctual people as it is better than employing someone who
shows up late most of the time, attendance is the same as punctuality as
attendance is when you are support to be in and punctuality means that you are
always in on time and always attending, a good example of this is collage/school as
your attendance goes up or down depending on how punctual you are punctual
students get high attendance where non punctual get low attendance.
Punctuality is also about being able to complete tasks to deadlines not going over
deadlines and forgetting to do work etc. punctuality also means being on time.

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Self-presentation:
Self-presentation means what you look like, if you have good presentation it means that
you look good dressed smart etc. If you have a bad self presentation you dont look
good. An example of this is at an interview you would have good presentation where if
you were at home all day you would have bad self presentation etc.
Self presentation can also be you in front of a crowd or group of people giving a
presentation on yourself this could be at if you buy a company and decide to
introduce yourself to everyone at once.
Self presentation mainly means how you dress and act e.g. interview: people would
dress smart and act polite and respectful where at home dress casual etc.
People will dress and act in certain ways around different people this is to give different
people different impressions of yourself.

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Functional skills:
Functional skills includes: ICT, maths, English, time management and personal responsibilities,
below is a definition/explanation of all of these.
ICT: ICT or basically computing are skills used on computers. ICT is what the course is called
GCSE, collage and university, all of these offer education to improve ICT skills. Skills in ICT are
important as more and more things are becoming digital and by learning computer skills it is
much easier to use computers and technology.
Maths/mathematics: Skills in math are very useful and help a lot with day to day activities,
math is a learnt in school and can be carried on/advanced with collage courses and university
courses, the highest grade (in any sub just) is a PhD in Mathematics this would be the highest
skill possible to gain in mathematics.
English: English like Math and ICT is something you learn at school and its a very basic skill
that you need, to develop the skill further collage and university also have English courses.
Time management: This is just making sure you dont waste time on anything in projects time
management is used to divide up the amount of time given to each section so time isnt wasted
on area.
Personal responsibilities: Most/everyone has personal responsibilities e.g. go to
school/collage/university/work etc. Personal responsibilities are things people have to do, some
people will have less responsibilities' than others due to different job/education different
background etc.