Category: Career

As a project manager with many years experience under your belt, still you will find many circumstances which challenge your abilities and skills to mange projects successfully. As the projects come in all sizes and shapes, it makes your job all the more challenging and tough. With some of them having no past history the job as a project leader becomes more daunting as the learning and gathering information phase extends. This brings a lot more pressure to perform within the timelines and budget. For a project manager the responsibility delivering quality results with limited resources often builds up stressful working situation. Importantly as a good project manger you are expected to work against all these odds and still perform.
Some of the challenges that project mangers come across in projects can be listed as:

Unrealistic deadlines
Change in project scope
Failure to manage risk
Insufficient team skill
Customers and end users are not engaged during the project
Lack of well defined vision and goals
Ineffective communication

So much at hand necessitates a tool, an approach that provides project manager with the right knowledge and skills. Project Management is the answer and obtaining a PMP certification would be the right move for your career. Project management not only equips project individuals with skills to mange projects but also provides value to organizations. Project Management Certification Exam (PMP) is a globally recognized and most respected certification. PMP Certification is offered by Project Management Institute (PMI), which addresses the requirements of project managers in communication management, integration, quality, cost, human resources, risk and time. For PMP Certification in India, AstroWix a Registered Education Provider of PMI provides Project Management training to help professionals with the PMP Certification, USA.

The buzz of project management is going around and in coming times there would be a very high demand for certified professionals. To acquire a PMP certification for you would certainly be a decision that will pay off. Moreover, there are likely to be tens of thousands of qualified professionals who will pursue and gain their PMP certification in the coming years. The impact of these newly certified Program Managers would see a strengthened link between programs, initiatives and organizational strategy in both the public and private sector. No competitive project professional or an organization should miss this train!

Mechanical engineering is a broad field that is a subset of general engineering which involves the application of the principles of physics for the analysis, design, manufacturing and maintenance of mechanical systems. An engineer uses science and mathematical principles for solving the technical problems. This branch is made up of many sub disciplines that are concerned with the mechanics, kinematics and energy of physical objects.

This is one of the oldest and broadest engineering disciplines. The practitioners of mechanical engineering are also known as a mechanical engineer. A mechanical engineer plays a significant role in several fields such as automated manufacturing, transportation, environmental control, transportation, computer fields, fossil fuel, nuclear power and many more. These engineers are also concerned with imagining and implementing programs and devices that may improve our world and our movement in it. A mechanical engineer is a specialized engineer who works with mechanical devices for e.g. elevators, refrigeration, robots, electric generators etc.

In the sector of agriculture, a mechanical engineer plays an important role by establishing service centers for maintaining the tractors, oil engines, electric motors, pump sets and other agricultural equipments. He can work in manufacturing firms as well as can find work in administrative and managerial positions in government departments or public sector industries. An individual can also start his career as technical sales or marketing engineers or independent consultants. The big demand of mechanical engineers is in the different areas such as steel, cement, constructions, infrastructure (maintenance) and process industries, Nuclear power plants, power plants and many more.

To sum up, we can say that Mechanical engineering is one of the most demanding engineering branch that brings lots of career opportunities for the people. After pursuing the engineering in mechanical, an individual can make his bright future in this field.

At Success Point we offer Career Guidance and Counseling to students who are on the brink of choosing a right career for themselves; we also have a centre for coaching students in specialised courses. Our state-of-the-art Knowledge Centre, provides comprehensive classroom training to students for IPCC, CPT,BBA, Competitive Entrance exams and GD+PI programs.
Knowledge and expertise are our key assets. We have a team of highly qualified and enthusiastic professionals. Trained and experienced subject-matter experts, psychologists, teaching facullty, career counsellors, researchers make up this cohesive group.
Ex-students and those who avail of our services once, become a part of our extended online family and continue to share information and updates. Our teachers and counselors are tuned in to the student’s queries and we are just a buzz away on the computer! Course information, career confusions and linking up to institutions form the major themes of online exchange.

1. Career Counselling

a. Individual Career Guidance
Our professionals help individuals in the process of self discovery through our career counselling services. The process involves making one aware of their interest, personality, strengths and weaknesses, various career options applicable- leading to an appropriate career choice. We also believe that parents play an important role in career decisions and hence their participation is encouraged throughout the process.

b. Career Talk and Group Counselling in Schools
We reach out to school students through a group interaction, referred to as Career Talk and follow it up with our detailed program, with interested students. Career Talk would typically involve a discussion on popular and lucrative courses for students in Science, Commerce and Humanities stream.

2. Classroom Training for Competitive Exams

Preparation for IPCC (2nd stage of CA, for November 2011) classes start on 25th January 2011.
Classroom Training for Common Proficiency Test (CPT), entrance test for CA, starts 5th April 2011.
Classroom training for National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT) Entrance Test (2012), starts around the 1st week of April, 2011.
Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) preparation for 2012, starts July 2011.

3. Vocational Services & Certifications

6 months course on Fashion Art: Eligibility Std XII pass. Starting January 2011, weekend classes.
6 months course on Needle and Thread Art. Eligibility Std XII pass. Starting January 2011, weekend classes.
Fashion tutions for courses in Fashion (Graduation, Diploma). Eligibility Std XII pass. Starting January 2011, weekend classes.
Preparation for Group Discussion and Personal Interview (GDPI) applicable for any entrance test or first job interview.
Resume Building and Modification assistance.

A career break is generally a prolonged, unpaid period away from the workplace – for several months or even several years – and is taken for many different reasons. This article looks at the reasons people choose to take a career break, whether you are entitled to take a career break and have your job ‘kept’ for you until your return, and issues that you may face when returning to work after a career break.

Career breaks are usually taken voluntarily and can be taken by men or women, by full or part-time workers, and by senior managers or more junior members of staff. Reasons for taking a career break are numerous and include taking time off work to have children or spend more time with your family, taking time off to travel the world, spending time taking care of a sick or elderly relative, time off to deal with personal problems or taking time off to retrain or take further academic qualifications.

Employers are not legally entitled to agree to your request to take a career break. That is to say, your employer cannot prevent you from terminating your employment contract with them if that is what you wish to do but they are under no legal obligation to keep the position open for you until you choose to return. It is down to the discretion of your employer as to whether your position is kept open for you and it will be up to you to discuss matters fully with your employer and explain the reasons that you wish to take a career break and why you think your position should be left open for you. Some employers, as is advisable, have a policy on how requests for career breaks are dealt with and the circumstances under which they are granted, or not granted. You should ask your employer for a copy of this policy as this may give you some idea as to how your request to take a career break will be received.

When returning to work after a career break, whether to a position that has been left open for you, or to a different role, you may feel anxious and your confidence may be lacking after several months or several years out of the workplace. You should familiarise yourself with any major changes that have taken place within your profession during the time you have been off and should also be able to account for the time you have been out of the workplace to any new prospective employer.

Taking time off for a career break is not a decision that many people take lightly. You should assess your reasons for doing so and ensure that your finances are allowing you to take such a break. Talk things over with your employer and familiarise yourself with their policy on careers breaks to increase your chances of securing the outcome you desire.

Copyright (c) 2012 Robert Gray

I always question why those who are either already speaking professionally or planning to do so, are not aware of the vehicle for their speech or presentation. It is called the speaking voice. Without it, they would have no career. Just ask Tony Robbins how important his voice is to him and what 30 years of talking without proper usage of his instrument has done to his throat and voice box! It is called vocal abuse; and, in his case, it is severe and permanent.

I liken public speaking without voice training to the doctor who never studied biology or the minister who is not familiar with the Bible. The vehicle for the doctors is their knowledge of the human body; the vehicle for ministers, on the other hand, is their knowledge of Gods word.

While you may believe that the microphone is going to solve all your problems on stage, you are mistaken. Microphones do one thing and one thing only. They amplify. If you have a wimpy sounding voice, the microphone will give you a louder, wimpy voice. If you already speak loudly and have any type of shrillness to your sound, the mic will make you that much more shrill. If you sound like a child, the mic will only serve to make you sound like a loud 6-year-old!

If, on the other hand, you find that you are hoarse or experiencing a sore throat after speaking for 50, 90 or 120 minutes, then it is likely that this will happen every time you talk for any great length of time. Again, it is called vocal abuse; and, unless you change the way you place your voice, it will only get worse.

Voice training has many, many benefits for the professional speaker, not the least of which is the prevention of vocal abuse. Beyond that, however, is the ability to discover your real speaking voice. Powered by your chest cavity instead of just your throat, voice box, mouth, and nasal cavities, the voice that makes use of the chest cavity will be deeper in pitch, resonant in sound and more mature in quality.

In addition, a voice being powered by the chest cavity can be amplified easily without shouting. It is called projection; but, it is only possible if the chest cavity is your primary sounding board.

Imagine discovering a richer, warmer, deeper voice that can truly captivate your listeners while preventing vocal abuse in the process. If you are planning a career in public speaking, look for a program that will show you how to find your real voice. Its in there. Its just a matter of discovering it!