Author: Euspert
Gender Gap in Employment and Salary In EU
In recent year’s world has been hit by major economic crisis which has been termed as Recession. The great economic slowdown which started in US in 2007 also affected several other countries. European Union was also affected. Some of the countries of European Union also saw a second phase of recession. Due to the global crisis many people lost their jobs during this period. In many places salaries were slashed. Although the recession is over it is warned that the crisis still continues. The Euro-zone GDP is 3% below that in year 2007/2008. The Greek economy has decreased by 23%, Ireland by 8%, Portugal by 8%, Spain by 8% and Italy by 9%. The unemployment rate in Euro-zone is 12%. The unemployment rate in different nations of European Union is Greece 28%, Ireland 14%, Portugal 17%, Spain 26% and Italy 14%. The percentage of youth who are unemployed is also ...
Call Centre jobs in Europe
Call centres are ICT –based workplaces that supply services to customers in diverse and remote locations via electronic media. In call centres people work by handling queries over phone. The very first call centres started in around 1960s and were simply responsible for answering questions by some workers with basic communication skills. In 1970s and 1980s the operators had to deal with a large number of repetitive requests and stress levels were high. In 1990s call centres became more customized and were heavily supported by ICT and had good communication skills. In 2002 there was around 1.3% of the total European workforce (i.e. 2 million people) who was employed in call centres. The number of people in call centres was more in Northern Europe as compared to that in Southern Europe. Studies have shown that there has been an increase in the number of call centres in Europe and the ...
Are you Multitasking?
Most research and expert opinions say that multitasking is not good for the human brain. The term multitasking actually originated in the computer industry but has now become synonymous with human multitasking. According to researchers switching between tasks decrease productivity and lead to more errors. Since the brain is not used to handling many activities at the same time the time taken to complete the tasks is more. The large amount of information that is available nowadays in the form of different sources such as net and media creates more confusion as larger the amount of information available the more difficult it is for the brain to process it. It also leads to partial knowledge of different subjects because of focus being on a lot of information at the same time and not studying anyone thing in detail. Children also rely on the different sources of media thus not getting ...
Vittra, a particular kind of school in Sweeden
It is well known fact that not all of the many international schools worldwide, follow a similar curriculum. With the presence of thousands of reputed international schools round the world, there is a varied pattern of imparting education to students. Notably, we find some of the reputed international schools having an American, British or any other slant. Whereas, some international schools call themselves to be an international school only because they claim to have adopted multiple teaching approaches in different formats. They believe such a move allows them to call themselves an international school. This trend eventually reached the EU countries and as a result, several new international schools have been started. However, there are a few schools which have put notable efforts in imparting education according to the global quality standards. One of them is the much appreciated Vittra International School in Sweden. There has been numerous Swedish initiatives ...
Best Places to study in EU to be a professional in Social Media Marketing
There are quite a few places where conferences are held for social media marketing enthusiasts in the European Union. A social media marketing manager is someone who could handle the social media for an organization or person and deal with the PR that either of the 2 is exposed to. The good news is that one need not go to any institute to study this as such because there are so many websites where one could learn the skills that one may look for in a social media marketing manager. One example of such a website is the Digital Social Media Academy where quite a few students are enrolled. For people wanting to go to an institution for these purposes, the SDA Bocconi School of Management (in Italy) is an excellent school for these purposes. Courses and classes at both universities are effective and are great for social media marketing ...