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Great Waiters are Not Born - They're Made (Part One)
Food service jobs are open to virtually anyone. Getting into the hospitality industry is reasonably easy, but to progress, it is important to have relevant skills and knowledge. You must have the hospitality skills you need to give yourself better employment opportunities.Many of the food and beverage servers are young teens to twenties, usually with little or no work experience. While older people may have an edge, lacking waiting experience is not a barrier. What is most important, is impeccable hygiene, a clean, neat appearance (get rid of the nose ring or that hair plastered over one eye when at work), and a service-oriented, pleasant personality and good manners.Most food servers and waiters pick up their skills by observing and working with more experienced staff. It is not unusual to do a part time waiting job over school holidays and find that it is something you want to pursue. Online education is possible and jobs online are easy to find. To search for the latest jobs in restaurants at hospitality, go to careerone.com.au and get a job that will enhance your skills as a waiter. If you are looking for full time or part-time jobs, OzFreeOnline.com ‘Jobs’ has a hospitality section where you can join for free and register to access all the information. Just login and browse all jobs free, post your resume, describe yourself - education, jobs, qualifications, etc. then wait for the offers to pour in.The Art of Waiting at Tables Like mos

d for a specific period of time and the process of project closure is an important aspect of project management. The purpose of a formal closedown to the project is to address all issues generated by the project, to release staff from the project and go through a ‘lessons learnt’ exercise. At this stage a formal acceptance from the customer (the person for whom the process product has been created) is gained to indicate their sign-off on the project. This is generally done in the form of a customer acceptance form and is the formal acknowledgement from the customer that the project has ended. Once signed off, the project team is disbanded and no more work carried out. However the project team will come together for what is called a Project Review Meeting, to formally end the project and go over any outstanding issues such as ongoing maintenance, the closing of project files and conduct a team review of the project. As a result a Project Closure Report is created to formalise how successfully the project has achieved its objectives, and how well the project has performed against its original business case, the scope, project plan, budget and allocated timeframes.

The Project Manager may also create a process improvement document that reviews the processes used by the project (e.g. what did we do well, what mistakes did we make) so that the organisation can learn from this project and make further projects more successful. Because the project was run by a team of people who have spent a lot of time involved in the success of a particular piece of work, that has taken them out of their usual day-to-day activities it is important to hold some type of social closing event. This might be a dinner, drinks or some type of group activity where everyone can be recognised and rewarded for their efforts.

What does it take to be a Good Project Manager?

Aside from understanding the methodology, there are other characteristics to keep in mind for successful project management. Given that any project is involved with a project team as well as the stakeholders, a good Project Manager needs to

Emergence of Technology - Shaping Up
IntroductionSince ages, man has quest to search for new things. His thirst for knowledge opens up various doors for new innovations. These innovations get complex with time to time and sciences add new dimensions even in textile industry.If we peep into the historic scale, it started with simple hand-woven fabric passing through handlooms, going up with the automatic looms and machinery and now stretches up to infinity with the help of technology like Nanotechnology and biotechnology.Life is getting more complex, so all things need more revolutionary changes to match the standards of the survival of man in more diverse situations. This is true for the whole textile industry. Day by day, new things add their values in the textile industry ranging from fabric making to new developments in machinery, threads, and design pattern, laundry washing and even in technical skills. Some of the new developments in various fields in textile are as follows:FabricThe Electrical conducting fabric is a new innovation in the field of smart textiles. These kinds of textiles have been created by coating of conducting polymers on the surface of the fabric. This could be either conducting yarns/fibers as a mixture component of yarn.The different processes of conductive coatings can be developed through evaporative deposition, electrolyte plating, coating with a conductive polymer and sputtering, loading or filling fibers and carbonizing.To c

Introduction

The purpose of this paper is to gain an understanding of project management and to give a brief overview of the methodology that underpins most formally run projects. Many organisations do not employ full time Project Managers and it is common to pull together a project team to address a specific need. While most people are not formally skilled in project methodology, taking a role in a project team can be an excellent learning opportunity and can enhance a person’s career profile.

What is a Project?

A project is a temporary and one-time exercise which varies in duration. It is undertaken to address a specific need in an organisation, which may be to create a product or service or to change a business process. This is in direct contrast to how an organisation generally works on a permanent basis to produce their goods or services. For example the work of an organisation may be to manufacture trucks on a continual basis, therefore the work is considered functional as the organisation creates the same products or services over-and-over again and people hold their roles on a semi permanent basis.

What is Project Management?

A project is generally initiated by a perceived need in an organisation. Being a one off undertaking, it will have a start and an end, constraints of budgets, time and resources and involves a purpose built team. Project teams are made up of many different team members, for example, end users/customers (of a product or service), representatives from Information Technology (IT), a project leader, business analysts, trainers, the project sponsor and other stakeholders.

Project management is the discipline of managing all the different resources and aspects of the project in such a way that the resources will deliver all the output that is required to complete the project within the defined scope, time, and cost constraints. These are agreed upon in the project initiation stage and by the time the project begins all stakeholders and team members will have a clear understanding and acceptance of the process, methodology and expected outcomes. A good project manager utilises a formal process that can be audited and used as a blue print for the project, and this is achieved by employing a project management methodology.

Project Management Methodology

Generally, projects are split into three phases Initiation, Implementation and Closure. Each phase then has multiple checkpoints that must be met before the next phase begins. The degree to which a project is managed will depend on the size of the project. For a complex project in a large organisation that involves a number of people, resources, time and money, a more structured approach is needed, and there will be more steps built into each stage of the project to ensure that the project delivers the anticipated end result. For a simple project in a small organisation, agreed milestones, a few checklists and someone to co-ordinate the project may be all that is required.

Initiating a Project

All projects start with an idea for a product, service, new capability or other desired outcome. The idea is communicated to the project sponsors (the people who will fund the project) using what is called either a mandate or project charter. The mandate is a document structured in a way that lays out a clear method for proposing a project and should result in a business case for the project. Once the business case has been approved a more detailed document is prepared that explains the project and it is known as the ‘The Project Definition Report’ (PD). The PD is not only used to provide detailed information on the project, but is the report on which an assessment is made as to whether the project should proceed or not. Some of the key areas it covers is the scope of the project, results of any feasibility studies, and what it is intended to deliver. As well this document will identify the key people involved, resources required, costs and expected duration as well as benefits to the business. A project usually has a goal (the big picture) and this has to then be broken down into objectives you can use to measure whether you have achieved your aims.

From this list you must then identify what is known as ‘Key Success Criteria’, and these are the objectives that are ‘key’ to the success or failure of the project – even if other objectives are met. These obviously vary from project to project. Once the project has been given the go ahead, then a contract document is drawn up and the project sponsor uses this to give formal agreement to funding the project and for the project to begin. The initiation phase is then considered to be completed.

Implementing a Project

The implementation phase is about tracking and managing the project. The first thing that happens when the project begins is to use the Project Definition Report to create a project plan which defines how to perform what is detailed on the PD report. The PD is more of a summary of the project, so a detailed project plan must be created to fill in the fine detail of how the project will be run. The project plan is the central document that is used to manage the project for its duration so getting agreement and acceptance from all of the team on aspects such as the project milestones, phases and tasks, as well as who is responsible for each task, associated timelines and what deadlines are to be met.

Some of the stages in implementing a project are quality control, progress control, change control and risk management. The first aspect we will discuss is risk management, as once you have planned the project it is important to assess any factors that could have an impact upon it. ‘Risk’ in this case is considered to be anything that could negatively impact on the project meeting completion deadlines. For example losing team members due to illness or attrition, not having taken team members’ annual leave into consideration, the possibility of having to retrain new team members, equipment not being delivered on time or contractors going out of business. A risk log is used to record and grade risks and carries an associated action plan to minimise the identified risk. Issues management is an associated area and refers to concerns related to the project raised by any stakeholder. This phase also involves the Project Manager in quality control, whereby regular reviews are made in formalised meetings to ensure the ‘product’ that is being produced by the project is reviewed against specific pre-defined standards.

Progress Control is another responsibility of the Project Manager and is the monitoring of the project and the production of regular progress reports to communicate the progress of the project to all stakeholders of the project. As most projects do not go exactly to plan, the process of progress control is to keep an eye on the direction of the project and monitor the degree to which the plan is followed and take appropriate action if stages are deviating from the plan by employing regular project tracking. This is achieved by having regular checkpoints during the course of the project that will have been established in the project definition. These meetings may be weekly and are used to monitor and control all that is going on with the project as well as capture statistics from each project team member on actual start and finish dates for their allocated tasks as well as estimates for the next round of tasks.

By the nature of most projects never going exactly to plan, changes will need to be made to the length, direction and type of tasks carried out by the team. This has to be fully documented by the Project Manager in the form of ‘change control’. Change control involves the Project Manager in documenting requests for change, identifying the impact on the project if the change is to be implemented (e.g. will it affect the finish time of the project, will the project run over budget, are there enough resources) and then informing all stakeholders of the implications and alternatives that the request for change has identified. The implementation phase ends once the project has achieved its goals and objectives as detailed by the key success criteria in the Project Definition Report.

Closing a Project

All projects are designed for a specific period of time and the process of project closure is an important aspect of project management. The purpose of a formal closedown to the project is to address all issues generated by the project, to release staff from the project and go through a ‘lessons learnt’ exercise. At this stage a formal acceptance from the customer (the person for whom the process product has been created) is gained to indicate their sign-off on the project. This is generally done in the form of a customer acceptance form and is the formal acknowledgement from the customer that the project has ended. Once signed off, the project team is disbanded and no more work carried out. However the project team will come together for what is called a Project Review Meeting, to formally end the project and go over any outstanding issues such as ongoing maintenance, the closing of project files and conduct a team review of the project. As a result a Project Closure Report is created to formalise how successfully the project has achieved its objectives, and how well the project has performed against its original business case, the scope, project plan, budget and allocated timeframes.

What does it take to be a Good Project Manager?

Change - Not Without Having a Break
Is it possible to change without having (using) a break? For instance you write a series of articles, day in day out without losing one, you just continue writing about different topics, but with the same mindset.I just read the outline of an article in the change category about someone who lost someone dear. I ask myself; would it be possible to continue writing if something like that happens to you? If it was possible, it would hardly by ethical, it would be like attending a death ceremony and bringing in a laptop to do some work in a spare moment...To make a revolution possible you need – according to the saying of Jacinto Benavente – “enlighten people’s minds and fill the hearts with warmth.” A revolution is the summit of change, a massive change but still with the same ingredients as for a “normal” change: feeding both the mind and the heart.The first process shouldn’t take long to fulfill. An idea could just jump on to you as pictured by Gyro Gearloose in the Donald Duck comic. But a new idea will not automatically change your life or make you move into a new direction. How many good ideas and intentions have not come to life? An idea on itself cannot live, because it will not move people.Think again about an incident that inhibits you from writing one day, two days, think about people who are depressed and cannot move themselves. Or think about a play you observed at a theatre you were moved by. Or think about the driver’s accident y

ocess, methodology and expected outcomes. A good project manager utilises a formal process that can be audited and used as a blue print for the project, and this is achieved by employing a project management methodology.

Project Management Methodology

Initiating a Project

Implementing a Project

Closing a Project

What does it take to be a Good Project Manager?

Pharmaceutical Sales as a Great Combination of Business and Science
Let’s say that you have a science background but want to get more into the business world with dollars and cents rather than microscopes and labs. Or let’s say you have a business background but are completely fascinated with the science, particularly the medical healthcare world. Well, a great way to combine science and business is to work as a pharmaceutical sales representative.First, the science part of this interesting job. Pharmaceutical sales reps will have to understand physiology, anatomy and pharmacology. They also have to know how to go through scientific medical papers and clinical studies. There is a lot of medical science involved during communications with customers including doctors, nurses and pharmacists in pharmaceutical sales.Now for the business part. Instead of wearing a white lab coat, pharmaceutical sales representatives will be wearing business suits and carrying brief cases known as detail bags. Customers will want to discuss drug product costs and selling will be involved. There is also business analysis of sales figures and other territorial data in this work. Business entertaining with customers may also be part of the job.There are many perks and benefits as a pharmaceutical sales rep. Salaries and bonuses could amount to six figures for high achievers and there’s the use of a company car. Corporate expense accounts are also available for business entertaining. There are also the travel opportunities that are

ether you have achieved your aims.

Implementing a Project

Closing a Project

What does it take to be a Good Project Manager?

You Are More Than Your Resume
Remember the days when you were in high school or college and you had to write a term paper with a typewriter. Actually, some of you reading this article have never seen a typewriter let alone have used one. Technology has changed so fast that equipment that was “cool” and expensive in its day is now given away for pennies on the dollar at a flea market.Now enter the age of internet job search. In the past, it was sufficient to have a resume to submit to Human Resources (HR) via fax, mail or simply hand it to a friend to give to HR. Well, those days are over and you need a better method, unless you want to remain unemployed.In a competitive job market, not only must you have a solid resume, you must also find a way to differentiate yourself from the herd. iAdverto.com empowers job seekers with the tools to showcase their talents in a multimedia environment. The company is revolutionizing the way job seekers present their skills and qualifications. HR professionals can get more information about the candidate to make better decisions. Following a few easy steps, candidates create a personal web page which displays their resume, professional photo, video profile, audio profile, and samples of their work. The link is instantly active and users can send it to potential employers, copy and paste the link in resumes or cover letters or insert the link when posting resumes on job boards.The service is free and the process is easy. The jobseeker’s person

fers to concerns related to the project raised by any stakeholder. This phase also involves the Project Manager in quality control, whereby regular reviews are made in formalised meetings to ensure the ‘product’ that is being produced by the project is reviewed against specific pre-defined standards.

Closing a Project

What does it take to be a Good Project Manager?

Pharm Sales, Questions and Answers about the Job
One of the hottest sales careers out there is in pharm sales. This field has always been a very popular career to get into but to many outsiders, there are a lot of questions about pharm sales. Here are some of the more common pharm sales questions and answers. What do pharm sales reps actually do?"Pharm sales reps promote the use of their company’s drug products to mainly physicians, pharmacists and nurses. They also make sure that pharmacies have enough stock of their company’s drug products on the shelves.""The term pharm sales rep is also interchangeable with such terms as pharma rep, pharmaceutical sales representative, drug representative and sometimes medical sales rep. But medical sales could also mean the sales of medical equipment and devices rather than drugs." What qualifications do I need in order to become a pharm sales rep?"Normally, a college or university degree is required plus above average communications skills." Do I need a science degree for pharm sales?"No, one doesn’t necessarily have to have a science degree as there have been many people who entered the pharmaceutical sales industry from many various backgrounds including degrees in business and arts. But having said that, you better have the capacity to learn the science that will be required to sell pharmaceuticals.""Training departments of pharma companies will train their pharm r

What does it take to be a Good Project Manager?

Excellent communication skills.
The ability to be a team player.
Excellent interpersonal skills.
The ability to negotiate.

Experienced Project Managers believe there are two key factors in determining the success of a project: 1. Recruitment and selection of suitably qualified project members to relevant project positions is essential. Recruiting of project team members should be handled with the same discipline and rigour as the recruitment of new employees to fulfil the ongoing positions in the business. 2. A well documented methodology that is kept simple and easily adaptable to different sizes of projects is a critical foundation for ensuring project success. This documented methodology needs to be communicated to project team members as part of the initiation stage. This will ensure such things as everyone having a clear understanding of how to progress and what is expected at each stage and that the methodology is adapted to the specific needs of the project being undertaken.

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