Career and Lifestyle Options for Aussies over 50

Career and Lifestyle Options for Aussies over 50

While how many people who moan about the difficulty in finding a job Midway through your working years, many see the incredible opportunity of a drastic and productive career change.

For those willing to embrace the Internet and it’s technology, a whole new world of opportunity has opened up to a working class that may have found themselves depressed and out of work.

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Educating Staff in Electrical Safety for Commercial and Industrial Premises

Educating Staff in Electrical Safety for Commercial and Industrial Premises

The risk of injury and death go hand in hand with many types of jobs, not least of which are those working in and around electricity and electrical equipment.

Worldwide, thousands lose their lives on the job through inadequate safety measures, poor training, lack of availability of facilities, not having safety tools, or not using them correctly.

Electrical safety is the responsibility of both employer and the employee.

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Quick Wins for Those Starting a Career in Social Media Marketing

Quick Wins for Those Starting a Career in Social Media Marketing

I have recently taken on board a number of new recruits into the world of social media marketing and SEO. It has prompted me to offer a little career advice for those aspiring marketers.

As a someone entering into the online world as a social media marketer, there is a lot to learn and a lot to do. You probably already have a daily to-do list full of different tasks that need to be done as soon as possible.

Some of them are pretty big and require you to dedicate a lot of time and effort in order to develop your skill set in digital marketing. Others are medium-sized and may be completed quicker. Then there are small tasks.

They are often called quick wins.

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The Benefits Of Learning Multiple Languages

Language is the medium through which people make understand their thoughts and express their views to other people. Therefore, language is one of the vital things of life to keep the communication on. Since man is a social animal, thus, it is essential for everybody to know a language.

In a country like India where there are so many states, it has become necessary for the people to know multiple languages because now a day people do not stay confined to their own states only.

We praise people who can speak many languages and those individuals also get more scope in every sphere of life.

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Board Games and the Academics of Play

How much of your time do you give your children for play? When was the last time you dusted off the wooden chess set for an hour or so of combat with your kids? Increasingly, academic excellence through rigorous testing and competency based learning has meant a decline for many children in the important area of natural learning.

Hirsh-Pasek, a psychology professor at Temple University, considers this move away from play to be a crisis. Not just because playing educational board games reduces stress and makes children more socially competent, which evidence suggests that it does. It matters also because play supposedly improves working memory and self-regulation; in other words, it makes kids sharper and better-behaved. So, ironically, by short changing them on play in favour of academics, we may actually be inhibiting their development.

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