education & tech

The NACE (National Association of Colleges and Employers) during the Spring 2008 Salary Survey, found which are the Top 5 Bachelor's Degree in demand. We should all remember that "at the time of graduation, nearly three out of five Class of 2006 two-year college graduates (59.2 percent), on average, had a job; at the time of the follow-up survey, nearly three-quarters (74.4 percent) had secured employment." applied to the two-years college graduated.

Imagine what it will be the difference if you've got to the level of a bachelor even when some still think education matters but not much as you thought:

1. Mechanical Engineering, with a start salary of $ 57,821. As more engineers retire, and other professionals transfer to managerial positions, job opportunities in this field are good.

What do they will do? These professionals research, design, develop, and test tools, machines, and mechanical devices. Along with a knack for science and math,for engineers strong oral and written communication skills are a must.

2. Accounting, with a start salary of $47,429. Retirees and a faster than average job growth due to new business and changing financial laws and regulations, accountants can have favorable job opportunities.

What they will do? Accountants ensure that a firm is run efficiently and records are kept accurately, so this career is for people who delight in number crunching.

3. Finance, with a salary start of $48,616. Competition is still keen for finance positions and financial advisors are projected to be among the 10 fastest-growing occupations.

What the will do? Almost a third of finance professionals opt to open their own business but they gather and analyze financials and provide investment guidance to businesses and individuals. You must feel comfortable with money markets, tax laws, and the workings of the economy, and a good communication skills to explain complex strategies and concepts is also a key.

4. Business Administration/Management, with a start salary of $44,195. Competition for top-level business administration management jobs will be high while more opportunities will exist for lower-level management jobs and facility managers. Projected to grow so quickly among other occupations.

What they will do? Leadership and communication skills are as valuable as flexibility, being detail-oriented, and decisive. They keep offices running efficiently, conducting records management.

5. Civil Engineering, with a start salary of $50,940. Employment growth for civil engineers is expected to move faster than the average for all career.

What they will do? Whether you are attracted by nature for details and analytics or you are inquisitive, detail-oriented, and interested in the big picture. This career is for you. Civil engineers must consider potential environmental hazards, construction costs, and government regulations that can affect their creations.

Job descriptions are based on details provided by the Bureau of Labor and Statistics and salaries correspond to entry-level. Post written in base of the already article published by Elizabeth Weiss McGolerick.

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The Angeles Times has a column, for those who are not familiar with it, called The Homeroom. In this section, bloggers interested in the education matters write and publish their ideas. Last week, Rebecca Trounson wrote a history from one The Homeroom bloggers, Antero García.

Antero Garcia teaches English at Manual Arts High School in South Los Angeles. Garcia has a master’s degree in education from UCLA’s Graduate School of Education and Information Sciences. And we think his tale is seen on more than one of the crowded schools in the States (Elizabeth Board Education handles over five thousand students only in its Secondary level!)

Its very sad what these poor colleagues go through. Teachers are dragged through hell because of No Child Left Behind and are constantly mistreated. No one wants to see that. Every minute is accounted for. Every second. They should at least have their own room. Only lip service is really paid to education.

This is what Antero wrote -related by Rebecca Trounson, "The only slight snag in the entire scenario is that there isn’t enough room for every teacher to have his or her own classroom. I’ll be one of several teachers who will be 'roving' or traveling from one classroom to another throughout the school day."

Imagine if this is happening in America, what might be exposed to, schools overseas. Garcia continues: "Although traveling from classroom to classroom isn’t necessarily the ideal teaching situation, I’ll admit that I don’t mind it that much. Sure, I don’t have my own desk, my own bookshelf, or even a lot of board or wall space for student work. However, I can often use these drawbacks as excuses to pillage and plunder the resources of my oh-too-kind hosts... I’m also privy to the innovative and exciting lessons taking place in other teachers’ classrooms. Sure, I may need to hustle a bit faster to get to my classroom on time (just like the students), but at least I can see something interesting when I get there."

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I won't answer this question but I want to hear your comments on this one. Why I don't have an answer? To give an answer of this character you have to have the knowledge and the experience and I don't. It's a complicated issue that many of you will jump in and start talking whether this were a colloquial conversation, but it isn't.

How come that big positions in the labor market are being occupied by people with a different degree for which they are serving? This is the point, and for discussion I would like to bring a Forrester specialist, Jeremiah Owyang.

In a very interesting post about his Six Carrer Tips this gentleman has written, Education matters, but not as much as you thought:

"..More and more executives I meet have degrees in something they didn’t study in school for. For most jobs, they hire you because of what you can do for them, not what school you went to. There’s a reason why education falls to the bottom of the resume, and the ‘value statement’ is at the top, quickly followed by real world experience. Don’t get me wrong, education is very important, a bachelor degree is really expected in today’s workplace, but I often lean on the broad, theoretical knowledge I gained as a primer (or glossary) for me to dive in deeper in the business world."

How many of us, teachers were prepared to work in a different environment and still we do a great job but shouldn't we making more money on that original career? Yes, I know, many will be saying that it's a matter of time and adult decision, even though you are a sacrificed labor intellectual and your bank account is almost empty and your family struggling to get in the big leagues or finish paying your mortgage.

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Are you still thinking that blogging can be a factor to get into the labor market? If your answer was YES, you better take a hard look in Blogging Can Help You Get a New Job.

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I am among those first six thousand blogs that Technorati monitors. However I still find interesting this post related with Successful Blogging. Are you being a successful blogger? Why don't share any input for our readers.

El titular de éste post ilustra lo que viene citado en el último libro de Greg Palast(un buen regalo de Navidad dicho sea de paso)cuando refiriendose a Franklin Roosevelt(1933) que es el duenio de la expresión; manifiesta que las cuarenta horas y el overtime fueron creados como una forma de proteger el servicio 'esclavista' de quienes recogian el algodón y que debian trabajar hasta 60 horas semanales por mismo dinero o veces menos porque como forma de pago se les ofrecía vivienda y comida. Esto para destacar que dentro de poco el OT tedría a desaparecer gracias a la labor mancomunada de empresarios y Mrs. Elaine Chao del Secretary of the Labor Department.The Grinch That Stole Overtime.

La solución para el amplio crecimiento y toda la mala racha que se le ha creado a MySpace es según Andy Carvin, Facebook. A pesar de decirse la semana pasada que My Space recibía mas visitas que el mismo Yahoo! parece ser que la máxima rentabilidad ya ha llegado a ese tan popular red social, ahora vamos por Facebook.

Tantos cambios se veticinan para el 2007. Uno de ellos es la disminución de los televidentes y el aumento de los Broadbandvidentes, o sea menos TV en la forma tradiconal y mas servicio de internet de lata velocidad para ver la programación que deseamos, ahí dónde la necesitemos: nuestra oficina, el restaurant, el SUV, dondequiera que nos plazca sentarnos y desplegar nuestra laptop o PC Table!

Todo ésto se suma a la necesidad de crear, desarrollar y propender una nueva forma de comportamiento en el internet, al menos al tratamiento de contenidos se refiere, basta con tomar unas clases de Civility 101 y creemos que el problema si no se solucionaría al menos emepzariamos por tratarlo. Así no perdemos el horizonte y vamos avanzando a lo que se viene después que los blogs pasen de moda en el 2007. Clarence Fisher, así lo estima.

Update: Parece que Palast al fin y al cabo tiene sus razones. United States is Insolvent!

Uno de los mejores blogs ecuatorianos hace un muy reportaje a cerca de lo que significa el concepto Web 2.0 o lo que Alvaro Ramírez llamaría, eMigration. Se trata de un concepto que realmente no tengo mayor información pero que es aplicable al concepto de redes sociales, Christina Espinosa prefiere llamarle curriculum 2.0 o la posibilidad de diferenciarte de los demás usando las ventajas de YouTube y Flickr para avanzar, progresar y subir en tu carrera profesional.

Diríamos que es algo así como un concurso de belleza en el mundo de los negocios y en el áarea laboral concretamente. El beneficio para los empleadores o la gente de Recursos Humanos es que tendrían 10 videos para mirar en media hora antes que diez personas para entrevistar que les tomaría dos o tres días hacerlo. Por supuesto que poner un video corto en internet para esos fines requeriría mas trabajo y planificación a la hora de presentarlo que de por sí ya conlleva méritos.

Any kind of publicity is good publicity, especially when you need a job.

Por mas del asunto, usted puede continuar su propia búsqueda en Mashable. Y si ya tiene suficientes conocimientos para hacerlo, pues entonces le aconsejamos empiece haciéndose su propia publicidad en GiggedUp.

Aunque no es nungún decubrimiento nuevo, sinembargo contribuye una vez más a probar científicamente que los indocumentados son el 'chivo expiatorio' del mercado laboral norteamericano. Por un lado se les tilda de 'ilegales' pero se les permite trabajar con número se Seguro Social falso o de otra persona, se dice que son una carga pero se les permite abrir cuentas bancarias con Depósito Directo para así poder venderles casas y generar ganancias en el Real State. Todo eso pareciera un doble juego.

Por su parte Francine Lipman, Profesora en la Chapman University School of Law presenta su investigación en dónde se muestra que el submercado laboral de los que llegan sin documentos a los EE.UU obliga, por infundadas creencias a llenar sus income taxes como si fuesen casados quienes pagan sus impuestos en forma separada, lo que hace que deban pagar más impuestos federales que si lo hiciesen en forma conjunta si pudiesen entrar a América con toda su familia. En adición, trabajadores no autorizados pagan impuestos al Social Security por cada dólar que reportan en porcentajes del 7.65%. Por lo tanto, éstos trabajadores con salarios en el nivel de pobreza SI están pagando impuestos tanto federales como por concepto del cobro en cada uno de sus cheques al nivel de un porcentaje mínimumo 7.65%

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No estoy afiliado ni represento a los intereses de este nuevo portal pero lo tengo que mencionar porque es una forma mas de socialnetworking pero aplicado específicamente al área laboral de conseguirse 'chamba' (en Ecuador cuando se tiene que referir a un trabajo se dice chamba). Whototalkto es un lugar para poner su curriculum viate e intercambiarlo con los interesados.

En el campo educativo existen unos miniproyectos de presentaciones desarrolladas sobre temas interesantes por parte de Elearnspace.

En el area del blogtech, nuestro dilecto Bloggeratto apunta algunas notas novedosas de cómo reeditar su script en Bogger Beta. Lectura obligada.

La prensa tradicional tambien empieza a hacerse eco de la importancia del socialbookmarking.

En Ecuador tambien se hacen eco de la política norteamericana. Y en éste mismo país Juan Javier nos cuenta que ya vendió a los alemanes uno de sus proyectos y hasta nos deja saber de sus andanzas por Chile.