News |Views |Reviews http://www.articlefarms.com Products, Services, Finance, Technology for Business Tue, 02 Mar 2010 06:54:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 en articlefarms/XIXPhttp://feedburner.google.com Guiding your career transition in the direction of future growth http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/articlefarms/XIXP/~3/dZibpnh8jPk/ http://www.articlefarms.com/tags/2010/03/guiding-your-career-transition-in-the-direction-of-future-growth.html/#comments Tue, 02 Mar 2010 06:54:00 +0000 schanie http://www.articlefarms.com/tags/2010/03/guiding-your-career-transition-in-the-direction-of-future-growth.html/ “Career transition” is on a lot of minds these days. The U.S. has more than 15 million unemployed — and if you count the discouraged and underemployed, the number is more like 27 million. You may be one of these people seeking a new job, or you may be one of millions of others who [...]

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“Career transition” is on a lot of minds these days. The U.S. has more than 15 million unemployed — and if you count the discouraged and underemployed, the number is more like 27 million. You may be one of these people seeking a new job, or you may be one of millions of others who are employed, but trying to strategize a major career change in a tough market. No matter the specifics, the economic downturn is probably affecting your career.

As you craft your long-term plans, you’ll want to consider where the jobs are — and where they are going. Consumption drives these patterns, but so does technology. Don’t forget to account for older generations retiring and leaving needed jobs open, either. All of these elements affect which jobs are available.

Then, to maximize your future demand, think about adapting your strategy — be it higher education, government re-training, or developing a new area of expertise — to a field that is projected to grow.

To help you with your planning, we peeked into our “crystal ball” (actually, government projections) to share the latest statistics for the industries growing the most, and the occupations that will be adding the largest amount of workers, now through 2018.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics recently published its 2010-11 edition of  the Occupational Outlook Handbook, a report on occupations and employment growth trends that is updated every two years. This particular update covers 2008-2018 — meaning it has data through the end of 2008, and projects out to 2018. This is notable because it does cover one full year of the downturn (2008), which began in December 2007. Nationwide, employment is projected to increase by 15.3 million (approximately 10%) over the decade between 2008 and 2018, and the OOH describes exactly where the growth will be. Here is the OOH’s list of the 20 “fastest-growing” professions through 2018, as measured by percentage of growth.

  1. Biomedical engineers: Slated to add 11,600 jobs, a 72% increase
  2. Network systems and data communication analysts: Will add 155,800 jobs, a 53% increase
  3. Home health aides: Set to add 460,900 jobs, an increase of 50%
  4. Personal and home care aides: Will grow by 375,800 openings, or 46%
  5. Financial examiners: Slated to add 11,100 jobs, an increase of 41%
  6. Medical scientists, except epidemiologists: 44,200 jobs will be added, a 40% growth rate
  7. Physician assistants: This field will add 29,200 jobs, growing by 39%
  8. Skin care specialists: Set to add 14,700 positions, growing by 38%
  9. Biochemists and biophysicists: Will grow by 8,700 positions, or 37%
  10. Athletic trainers: Set to add 6,000 jobs, a gain of 37%
  11. Physical therapist aides: 16,700 jobs will be added, a gain of 36%
  12. Dental hygienists: The workforce will add 62,900 jobs, an increase of 36%
  13. Veterinary technologists and technicians:  Slated to add 28,500 jobs, a 36% increase
  14. Dental assistants: Will be adding 105,600 jobs, growing by 36%
  15. Computer software engineers, applications: Set to add 175,100 jobs, a growth rate of 34%
  16. Medical assistants: Will grow by 163,900 personnel, an increase of 34%
  17. Physical therapist assistants: 21,200 jobs will be added, growing by 33%
  18. Veterinarians: Will add 19,700 jobs, an increase of 33%
  19. Self-enrichment education teachers: Slated to add 81,300 positions, an increase of 32%
  20. Compliance officers, except agriculture, construction, health and safety, and transportation: Will add 80,800 jobs, growing by 31%

The first thing to note about this list is that a smaller industry can show an explosive rate of growth, yet still add fewer jobs in total than a huge industry that is growing more slowly. This is shown by the top occupation, biomedical engineer, which is going up steeply (72%!), but in spite of this is still only adding one job for every 39 added of the #3 job, home health assistant.

Examining the above list, here are some big trends I observe in the fastest-growing industries:

Biological sciences: In the Top 20, we see a high demand for biomedical engineers (#1) and biochemists and biophysicists ( #9), which reflects medicine’s growing interest in genetic research and biologic drugs. If you are inclined toward the sciences, biology would be a strategic area to explore.

IT: Don’t overlook the second-fastest-growing job, network systems and data communication analysts, which is set to add more than 150,000 new jobs, while computer software engineers, applications, #15, is adding another 175,000. Together, this is 325,000 jobs, so people who can run networks and write software will definitely continue to be needed.

Health assistance: Home health aide is #3, while personal and home care aides are right behind at #4. It makes sense: our increasingly aging population has an independent spirit, values their health, and would like help with it at home rather than at an institution. Physician assistants (#7), dental hygienists (#12), dental assistants (#14) also reflect these demographics, plus increased access to and demand for medical and dental services. Could you grow a career around this?

Veterinary sciences: The pet is of ever-increasing importance in the U.S.: people devote more of their money to a pet’s needs than before, and rates of pet ownership are up. So it’s not surprising to see veterinarians at #18 and veterinary technologists and technicians at #13. If you love animals, veterinary medicine may be the path for you.

Those were the occupations with steep growth. If you’re more interested in which occupations will be adding the most jobs in terms of sheer numbers, the following list (also from the new edition of the Occupational Outlook Handbook) delivers that. Here are the 20 occupations that will be adding the most new jobs, in individual openings:

  1. Registered nurses (581,500)
  2. Home health aides (460,900)
  3. Customer service representatives (399,500)
  4. Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food (394,300)
  5. Personal and home care aides (375,800)
  6. Retail salespersons (374,700)
  7. Office clerks, general (358,700)
  8. Accountants and auditors (279,400)
  9. Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants (276,000)
  10. Postsecondary teachers (256,900)
  11. Construction laborers (255,900)
  12. Elementary school teachers, except special education (244,200)
  13. Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer (232,900)
  14. Landscaping and groundskeeping workers (217,100)
  15. Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (212,400)
  16. Executive secretaries and administrative assistants (204,400)
  17. Management analysts (178,300)
  18. Computer software engineers, applications (175,100)
  19. Receptionists and information clerks (172,900)
  20. Carpenters (165,400)

Observations on the list of occupations that are growing the most:

Healthcare: The need for registered nurses is #1. Although they didn’t make the Top 20, you should know that licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses came in at #24 on the list, and physicians and surgeons ranked #28. Being a doctor or nurse has always been an in-demand profession, and the demand will continue.

Services: The service sector is adding millions of jobs in the coming eight years. A large portion of them are adjacent to healthcare; home health aides are #2, while nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants is #9, and personal and home care aides is #5. Other growth areas in service are food preparation and landscaping.

Construction and carpentry: Good news! Building is projected to come back from its current slump, making construction laborer #11 on this list, and carpenter #20.

For more planning resources, be sure to visit the OOH website. There, you can read up on hundreds of jobs. For each job, you will find descriptions of the duties and working conditions, the skills and experience needed, projected earnings, and even information on the job in your region. It is a valuable resource for imagining, planning, and implementing your successful career transition.

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It was while twittering, I  got  the answer to the long pending, long puzzling question - how is the universe run?

And the answer lies in - this universe is run by an integrated methodology that binds all matter  through a system that is eternally working to take all matter and mankind to a higher level of consciousness -  that can take hundreds, thousands or millions++ years.  Green Technologies are more conformative with this methodology. So green technologies will become the founding system of human thought, technology and development in future.

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If you believe in long term investments, here are the facts that will encourage you to  harness solar energy and be proud of helping the planet Go Green

Solar panels can harness the reservoir of energy of the sun to some other type of energy. Generally the power that results will be available in the form of heat (to heat a building for example) or electricity which can be used to power anything from a radio to a complete business.

In this article we are going to talk about the bigger residential and industrial panels which are designed to provide power for the  home or business, where these panels are regularly placed on the top of the home or in close proximity to the home if space permits. We are also going to focus on the type of panels that generate electricity known collectively as Photovoltaic panels.

Solar panels are a terrific way to cut energy costs and to reduce your carbon emissions, and to become more self-sufficient. They are now becoming extremely popular in urban areas where alternative energy advocates and law makers are creating incentives for this friendly and quiet alternative energy source. The state of Colorado, for example, has been offering massive rebates on the up-front cost in acquiring and implementing a residential solar system.

After the panels are installed, energy from the system will be used to energize the house, or, when energy is being made in excess of demand, diverted for use on the grid, where it is purchased back by the electrical power company. There may be times when you are actually making income from your panels. With rebates factored into the initial cost it will generally take from seventeen to twenty-four years to get back the initial expense, at which time you will essentially be generating power from the sun at no cost.

One little-known fact, however, is that solar panels are initially contributory to greenhouse emissions because it takes power to manufacture a solar panel, that this energy is very often fossil-based, and front-end loaded, and that therefore there is a time period during which the solar panel has actually added to carbon emissions rather than detracted from them. Until such time as the solar panel has produced energy equivalent to the energy used to manufacture it (its fossil-emission payback period) it is actually a contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. This fossil-emission payback period is generally considered to be five to ten years.

Low power solar panels are normally available in 12 v or 14 v configurations, while high power  panels are available in 24 volt. As solar panels are DC, you may normally need a power inverter that changes it from low-voltage as Direct Current to another-voltage Alternating Current to change it to be compatible with the voltage and type that feeds both the home and the grid.

Conventional solar panels are constructed using twin sheets of semiconducting silicon, combined with phosphorus and boron atoms. Amorphous silicon solar cells are a highly powerful, emerging array of photovoltaics that differ in output, structure, and manufacture than traditional photovoltaics that use crystalline silicon. The H-AS solar panels are produced in the same way, but they are made just 1 micrometer in depth by laying down polymorphous silicon at very high pressures and temperatures.

Solar panels are normally maintenance free and many manufacturers will supply a guarantee of electrical output often for as long as 20 years.

Solar panels are installed on whichever side of your house that gets the maximum solar exposure. In locales south of the equator this would be the north-facing aspect, and in locales north of the equator its the south-facing aspect.

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If you freshly charge a Li battery, it can give hours of operation time between recharges. But if you charge and leave it unused, it reduces the operation time, and I don’t have a clue till date to find out how long the battery will work.
It has made me look  for a backup battery for outdoor video shooting.  So in an effort to select the right battery for uninterrupted video making, I gathered some information on digital camera batteries. If you have used Li batteries for your camera, leave your comments for getting the best out of camera batteries.
Digital camera batteries are available by brand and model, and also by the type of battery.

Before finding the right digital camera battery and adapter for  camera, you need match of the brand and model of digital camera with the battery for making the right selection. For any brand and model, there are numerous model numbers to choose from as these batteries are typically not compatible across model numbers. Manufacturers design a specific battery technology for each model that provides optimum functionality for that specific digital camera.  So you need to select the one that is specifically designed for your camera. Digital camera batteries are not as compatible between single brand as in case of mobile phones.

Digital camera batteries can vary greatly by price depending on the type of battery you purchase.  Lithium batteries last up to 10 times longer than alkaline batteries, and therefore can take many more pictures. Though lithium batteries last so much longer, they weigh much less than alkaline batteries.Lithium batteries are much more expensive . Another inexpensive alternative to lithium batteries is oxy-nickel batteries. Yet to use & discover how they work There are specifically designed for digital cameras and last up to four times longer than alkaline batteries.

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Nature packs immense power into a seed, but it needs the right environment and care to grow. Like wise a human needs a green life style, current skills and the right enviroment to be succeed.

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Americans are more tech savvy than ever. And with the growing need for on-the-go technology comes some pretty unique inventions. Each year, the products are getting more high-tech, more portable, and in many cases, easier to use. This year, there’s something for everyone. Here’s a round-up of the must-have mobile tech items for 2010:

The Multi-Tasker - Needs mobile Internet. CLEAR, the company that started the 4G Internet revolution is expanding its coverage across the country in 2010. CLEAR delivers super fast wireless Internet to entire cities. All it takes is a CLEAR USB modem and you can access high-speed Internet in a cab, on a bus or at the park. It’s the perfect solution for any on-the-go business person or Facebook addict.

CLEAR Internet also offers a 3G/4G dual-modem so you can pick up 3G Internet when you leave the CLEAR coverage area. CLEAR wireless Internet speeds are typically four times faster than 3G. Their product offerings are super affordable too, with home and mobile Internet packages available for around $45/month.

The Bookworm - Needs a high-tech reading device. From the Kindle to the Barnes & Noble Nook, electronic book readers were one of the biggest crazes in 2009. These handheld devices let you download entire books at your leisure - much like an iPod - but the latest versions don’t have to be plugged into a computer.

For 2010, one e-reader stands out above the rest - Sony’s Daily Edition. The Daily Edition is still small, but maximizes its screen size. It also has a feature that allows you to turn the page by gliding your finger across the screen - much like you would with an iPhone. The only setback with the Daily Edition is the price. It’s $400 compared to the $259 Kindle. Either way, everyone needs an e-reader in 2010.

The Fitness Buff - Needs a wireless weight-monitoring device. Weight loss has gone high-tech in the last year. But no product has taken it as far as the Wi-Fi Body Scale. If you thought your friends could help hold you accountable on your diet, you better expand your circle of friends. The scale has a wireless connection and will send your weight and body fat information to your personal Web page, iPhone or even your latest tweet. You may not opt for the latter, but it’s a great way to keep dieters on track.

There’s also the more practical “Go Wear Fit” armband from BodyMedia. Wear the device all day and it will calculate the number of calories you’ve burned, your physical activity level and the total number of steps you’ve taken. Keep it on at night and it will even monitor your sleep patterns. But the “Go Wear Fit” isn’t all that cheap. It costs $249.99 and you’ll have to pay an online subscription fee between $6.95 and $12.95 a month.

Whether you’re a homebody who wants to curl up with a good (electronic) book or go-getter who needs a 24/7 high-speed Internet connection, the latest tech products offer something for everyone. So find your must-have item, get connected and enjoy a high-tech 2010.  Courtesy of ARAcontent

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