ARMED FORCES TRAINING JOB

A training and education officer in the armed forces is a commissioned officer with management, educational and personnel duties, who is responsible for education and training support within one of the three armed services. Training and education officers are often responsible for specialist or technical training.

In addition to being a military officer whose role is to lead, motivate and manage, the work involves teaching and acting as a careers consultant and training adviser. Officers must also prepare their team, ensuring their readiness to fulfill their purposes in the armed forces, directing them when circumstances demand action, and using their skills and competence. Training and education officers are often located at education and training centers within military bases, or cover a geographical area.

There will also be occasions when they will be required to fulfill field operational roles. Analyzing learning needs both knowledge and skills. Directing learners to appropriate courses. Organizing initial training for new entrants into the forces designing, setting up and running training courses. Instructing in subjects, including military studies, engineering and management, from the most basic level right through to technical and/or degree-level work. Tutoring senior officers preparing for promotion.

Coordinating language training, perhaps including EFL (English as a Foreign Language) training for officers, and other ranks from the armed forces of other countries. Carrying out the necessary administrative tasks associated with learning programmers for individual officers and other ranks. Managing a team of experienced personnel. Supporting the education and training of the families of staff. In addition, in field operations, activities might include media, civil liaison, community relations or transitional roles. Delivering low-level language or cultural awareness training

ACADEMIC LIBRARIAN JOB

Academic librarians provide support to members of an academic community, such as students, researchers and lecturing staff. Typically, an academic librarian will manage, organise, evaluate and disseminate information, and they will often be responsible for a specific academic subject area or a particular function, such as resource ordering, loans, special collections.

They are also involved in facilitating and supporting learning by teaching information retrieval skills to students and staff. Academic librarians spend a considerable amount of time working with electronic resources and are increasingly involved with database management and web page development. Specialist responsibility for an academic subject or function is common even at basic-level posts. Some roles have a strong focus on electronic resources and information technology.

The following is a list of tasks typically undertaken within the role: dealing with users' enquiries. Managing resources such as books, journals and websites. Managing buildings, furniture and equipment. Managing staff, which may involve recruitment and selection, appraisals, disciplinary action, staff rotas and training, as well as day-to-day management of staff. Managing budgets maintaining relationships with external bodies, such as suppliers.

Contributing to academic course development and liaising with academic departments. Creating, updating and managing information resources - both electronic and printed. Selecting, acquiring and cataloguing information using library and information software. Assisting researchers with literature searches using databases, printed resources and the internet. Delivering information and learning skills courses for students and staff. Contributing to the development of strategic plans for library and information resources. Participation in professional groups or networks.

ACCOMMODATION MANAGER JOB

Accommodation managers are generally employed in the private sector by hotels, cruise ships and conference centers, or in the public sector in halls of residence, hospitals and health worker housing, government-run care homes and housing associations. It is their responsibility to ensure that their establishment is run efficiently, that standards of cleanliness and maintenance are upheld (in rooms, bathrooms, and public areas), that budgets are controlled and that their teams of staff are well trained and managed. In hotels, accommodation managers may be known as housekeepers.

Across all sectors and establishments, accommodation managers have similar and typical managerial responsibilities, including people management and training, budget control, business planning and administration. Exact duties and levels of responsibility vary from position to position. In hotel accommodation, typical activities include: ensuring that accommodation is clean, well maintained and attractively presented, controlling a budget, managing stock and ordering supplies, inspecting to ensure that all aspects of the accommodation meet hygiene and health and safety regulations.

In educational/hospital accommodation, typical activities include: planning the availability of accommodation for students or conference delegates (education) or for nursing and medical staff (hospitals), budgeting and controlling finances, managing maintenance and arranging repairs, supervising the work of cleaning staff and ensuring standards are maintained, negotiating contracts with private landlords, e.g. for accommodation off campus or off site, and preparing relevant documentation, involvement in building and refurbishment plans for residential accommodation.

Accommodation managers may be involved in some practical or hands-on work, but their role is mainly supervisory, with people management constituting a significant proportion of their role. Increasingly they are required to manage staff that are employed by contractors, as opposed to in-house teams, and therefore need to be able to handle rapid staff turnover and ensure all new staff are fully conversant with policies and procedures.

ADULT NURSE JOB

Adult nurses provide medical care to, and support the recovery of, patients suffering from acute and long-term illnesses, diseases such as diabetes or arthritis, or those requiring surgery. They focus on the needs of the patient rather than the illness or condition. They also promote good health and wellbeing through education. Nurses plan and carry out care within a multidisciplinary team but are the main point of contact for patients.

Adult nurses work mainly in hospitals, although they are playing an increasingly prominent role in the community, attached to a health centre or general practice and in residential homes, specialist units, schools and hospices. Gaining the trust and confidence of each patient is an important role for nurses, as they have more continuity of patient care than other members of the medical team.

Patients may have chronic conditions, such as diabetes or heart/kidney problems, or serious acute conditions, such as heart failure, stroke, hepatitis or burns. They may be in for surgery, admitted to accident and emergency with injuries, attending an outpatient clinic or undergoing tests and assessments. In all cases, nurses need to establish a good relationship with the patient and their relatives.

Day-to-day pressures and duties will depend on your role, but typical work activities can include: preparing patient care plans, implementing plans through tasks such as preparing patients for operations, wound treatment and monitoring pulse, blood pressure and temperature, observing and recording the condition of patients, checking and administering drugs and injections, setting up drips and blood transfusions, assisting with tests and evaluations, carrying out routine investigations, responding quickly to emergencies and maintaining patient records.

ADVERTISING BUSINESS

Without advertising, your business will fail. But no matter how excellent your product, if no one knows about it you have no sales, no revenue, no business. If you are a start up business you must get your name and products known to your potential customers. Small businesses, personal traders, and home-based businesses are often constrained by advertising budgets. It does not have to be so. Advertising can be as inexpensive as you want or as expensive as you want. The idea is to get the attention of your potential customer.

Television, print, radio, bulletin announcements, billboards, streamers and posters are some of the more popular ways to advertise. Don’t ignore the internet -create a good domain name with an attractive website and submit your site for free to search engines and web directories. Make attractive and simple business cards and swap them with other businesses. Offer free printing or charge a reduced fee of labels and stands used in commercial establishments. The variations are almost endless.

The idea is to get as much exposure as much you can because without exposure your business will not happen. Don't just think things out, action is what is important. Promote your product with energy. There are many goods and services on the market. A product that is not advertised properly will not be noticed. Many great innovations have not found their market due to a lack of effective advertising.

You must get out and advertise. Even if at first you only attracting a single person. One good word of mouth will spread, giving you some initial exposure that you can build on. There is one more very important point to consider you can spend a fortune on advertising your product. But you only get one chance with the customer. Your product must live up to what has been promised and deliver the benefits advertised. Good advertising plus a good product will result in growing sales.

ADVERTISING COPYWRITER JOB

Advertising copywriters usually work in a creative partnership with an art director to conceive, develop and produce effective advertisements. The art director deals mainly with the visual images the copywriter provides the verbal or written aspect. This involves writing 'copy', i.e. coming up with original catchphrases, slogans, messages and strap lines. It also includes writing all the wording in any type of advertising.

Copywriters are often involved in the production process, which can include casting actors and dealing with production companies and directors. They also work with typographers, designers and printers. The nature of the work will vary according to the type of agency, but typical work activities in a traditional advertising agency include meeting the account management team to discuss client requirements and product background brainstorming ideas and concepts.

Working in a close-knit creative partnership with the art director to generate workable concepts and ideas. Writing clear, persuasive, original copy. Submitting ideas and discussing progress with the creative director before making presentations to clients. Amending, revising or redeveloping campaigns in response to feedback from the creative director or clients. Working on several campaigns at once, under pressure and to tight deadlines.

Proofreading copy to check spelling and grammar. Overseeing campaigns through the production stage to completion. Casting actors for TV and radio work, listening to voice tapes with production companies, photographers, typographers, designers and printers. Keeping up to date with popular culture and trends. Advising intending creative’s and reviewing their portfolios ('books').

ADVOCATE JOB

In essence, an advocate is a self-employed independent lawyer. Most are based in Supreme Court and work as self-employed individuals, depending on solicitors and some other professionals for their income. A small number are employed within industry or local government in high court. Their activities include: preparing for cases and liaising with solicitors presenting cases and representing clients in courts, providing specialist legal representation and advice to solicitors and appropriate professional bodies in written opinions or at consultations.

The process of becoming an advocate is currently under review. At the moment, after completing a bachelor degree of the requisite standard and the full-time Diploma in Legal Practice, it is necessary to undertake a period of full-time training in a solicitor's office approved by the Faculty of Advocates. After you have been formally admitted by the Faculty as an Entrant (trainee advocate) and passed certain examinations there comes a further eight/nine month period of unpaid practical training with an experienced advocate and finally a competency assessment, which covers written and oral advocacy skills.

Current advice is that you should complete a two-year solicitor's traineeship so that you can qualify and practise for some years as a solicitor before going to the Bar. The work of a criminal barrister is likely to involve a lot of advocacy in court. A family law barrister may be representing clients in court in a contact dispute or divorce case, but equally may be involved in mediation as a way of avoiding the need to go to court.

A barrister practising chancery law will act in 'traditional' chancery cases related to wills, probate and trusts but may also be heavily involved in providing advice and negotiating on corporate and commercial matters. Employed barristers will undertake similar activities for one particular company or client. At more senior levels, they may also become involved with the development of legal policy and strategy.