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Getting Promoted in 2010
It is a new year, and thankfully, the job market is picking up. Does this mean it is the time is right to seek pastures new? Or, should you rather stay loyal to your current employer, grow your skills and aim for a promotion in 2010?
Job market growth
After a tough 2009, where redundancies were common, 2010 started off with brilliant news for jobs. A survey conducted by the Recruitment & Employment Confederation (REC) and KPMG revealed a growth in staff appointments for a fifth successive month.
Kevin Green, chief executive of the REC commented to The Telegraph: "As we head into 2010, the recovery of the UK job market is accelerating. Employer confidence is increasing and vacancies are on the up."
Although an increase in job vacancies is reason enough for renewed optimism, nothing is cast in stone. KPMG partner and head of business services Bernard Brown, warned: "The prospect of possibly extensive public sector job cuts in the second half of 2010 casts a long shadow over everything. The jobs market has been cushioned in recent years by continued public sector expansion."
Career growth
With a job market that can turn either way this year, advancing your potential at your current organisation seems like the safest option. The plus side is that growing your career and skills can also have an advantageous effect on your future.
Job development can lead to increased responsibility, a promotion and even a salary raise. A promotion at work has psychological benefits and looks fantastic on a CV when the time does come to change companies.
New Life Network, experts in career advice, believe that promotion, praise, popularity, prestige, productivity, pay and protection are the reasons why people feel motivated to advance professionally.
According to their strategy, a promotion won't safeguard you from redundancy, but it will "make it easier for you to get another job somewhere else. More experience and a healthy track record of success improves your employability".
Six tips to you get promoted
According to several authority sites on career advice, the following six tips are the most common when aiming for a promotion at work:
1. Make your boss look good for hiring you: Through being helpful and friendly towards co-workers and supervisors, you will get a healthy reputation at work. In any company, networking is essential and therefore you need to develop strong relationships. This will ensure your colleagues know who you are and how you add value.
2. Become a safe pair of hands: Be someone your boss can rely on to get the job done, no matter what. Through making yourself indispensable, you can safeguard your current position and slowly pave your way forward.
3. Communicate your plans to management: Let your supervisors in on your new career plan. This way they will make note of you endeavours and they might be able to let you know if and when they will consider staff promotions.
4. Develop your skills: Initiate growing your skills through attending courses and workshops that will benefit the company. Learn more about your organisation as a whole, the organisation's business strategy, where they are headed and how you can contribute to this goal.
5. See challenges as opportunities: Be positive when challenges are thrown your way, it is an excellent time to show management what you are made of. Be a problem-solver, think of creative new solutions to old problems and find better ways to use company resources.
6. Exceed expectations: If you only do what your company pays you to do, why would they promote you? You need to get involved with work from the next level up. Volunteer for extra projects, expand your role and learn more about other aspects of the business. However, be careful not to take on too much and risk doing your own workload poorly.
Remember, nothing happens overnight. If you work hard, you will in due time reap the fruits of your labour. Best of luck!
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Chantel is a regular contributor of career advice and
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Raid Data Recovery
With the cost of hard disk falling, it is not uncommon for home desktop PCs to have RAID. In fact, most PC motherboards have a built-in RAID controller, even if it is not in use. RAID is short for "redundant array of inexpensive disks" and was developed to use smaller disks in an array for better performance, scalability, and data reliability and recovery.
RAID achieves all these aims via several configurations. The most common nowadays are RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1/ RAID 10 and RAID 5. Each of these RAID types has their own method of redundancy.
RAID 0 is simply striping the data across multiple disks. It's like dividing the data into smaller pieces of fixed size, called the "stripe width," and writing the stripes across the disks. If the file to be written was 5KB in size, with a stripe width of 1KB and there are 4 disks to a RAID set, the first stripe would be written on the first disk, the second on the second disk, and so on up the fourth stripe, the fifth stripe is written to the first disk. This is a fast way of writing large files but if one disk fails, the whole set fails.
RAID 1 is also called mirroring. That's because the same data is written on two disks at the same time. In other words, one disk being the mirror of another. The reads are done on both drives as well. If one disk fails, there is still another disk which keeps the data safe and read-write operations continue. This is an effective solution at the cost of having two disks doing the job of one.
RAID 0 + 1, is a combination of RAID 0 and RAID 1. The data is striped across disks first, and then mirrored across the same number of disks. If you have four disks, the data is striped across the first two, and then the pair is mirrored across the remaining two disks. This is a robust solution but very expensive.
RAID 5 is like RAID 0, but with a parity write. A parity is an error correction which is a combination of the data on the other stripes. Additionally, the parity is written on different disks, and not on any single disk. Because of this overhead, RAID 5 is slower than RAID 1 or RAID 0 + 1.
In case of a disk failure, the data can be recovered by calculating the parity contents of the failed disk from the contents of the other disks. In hot swap installations, the failed disk is taken out and replaced, and the data is rebuilt on the fly. There would be noticeable performance degradation while the data is being recovered automatically.
RAID was designed to be both scalable and robust. But with each additional hard disk the chances for a hard disk failure increases. RAID was also designed to continue running even in the event of a single disk failure. And depending on the RAID 0 + 1 configuration, even if more disks failed data would still be written and read correctly up to a certain point but with noticeable performance degradation.
However, in most instances, it would still be necessary to do a RAID recovery at some point of multiple disk failure. RAID recovery of important data is specialized for different types of disks and RAID implementation strategy. RAID data recovery in some instances need a laboratory clean room to study the disk failure before recovering the data.
Most data centers resort to further redundancy of data storage and recover the data after the RAID set has been repaired. In other instances, the data is recovered from tape backup after repairing the RAID set. In a worst case, for very important data, RAID data recovery is done by companies that specialize in dealing with RAID setups everyday.
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