• Provide pension advice to employers
• Monitor pension scheme funding
• Determine funding and premiums
• Provide advice relating to trust funds
• Provide authoritative to others without direct access to actuarial advisors
• Advise on damage awards

This section is provided to indicate what we term as 'People Dealing' in the work environment, and includes all  contacts made within the work environment.

It is aimed to provide insights for inexperienced candidates of the types of situations that may arise as a result of their intention to achieve  career goals.

Possessing creative abilities and good academic qualifications are not enough to operate successfully in any arena. Research regularly indicates that a workforce needs to be content if it is to work both efficiently and effectively for the common good of a business or institution.

The Key Tasks indicated in the tables alongside provide an overview of an employers expectations of the actions an employee will be required to perform. This overview should be considered merely as a start point for candidates who are considering a career in this arena.

Work lifestyles are an  important aspect of any career as they occupy a significant percentage of our lives. For this reason Sell Yourself Recruitment Ltd has chosen to highlight other factors likely to weigh heavily found in any career path.

By making candidates aware of the potential work lifestyle challenges encountered via People Dealing  we hope to equip them with an awareness they might only have gained through experience - good or bad. A necessity to provide this information stems from the fact that People Dealing plays significantly not only in the workplace but also in the home. The term 'we are what we eat' is easily mirrored by our intention to work at a career that is good for us rather than one that is simply a tool for income.

Sell Yourself Recruitment believes that being employed in a job that you detest is harmful to your health.

Many work lifestyle challenges found in the engineering arena will also be repeated in other disciplines, it is essential that any decision to opt for a career (20 to 40 years) in a particular field is decided upon with as much understanding of what to expect as can be passed on.

Common key tasks among the engineering disciplines are highlighted below. Please use the links to view Work Lifestyle People Dealing assessments:

• Project Management

• Retail Management

• Provide financial advice to commercial and government sectors
• Carry out research programmes
• Analyse research data
• Assess staff, competitors and suppliers through dialogue
• Create appropriately worded questionnaires
• Provide questionnaire analysis and conclusions
• Submit completed assessment reports to clients

• Clarify objective with client
• Select project leaders and their teams
• Design a product model together with a description of the construction requirements
• Select and manage contractors
• Interact with client to keep them abreast of changes in timescales, costs etc
• Quality Control project to ensure that it encompasses all expectations
•  Carry responsibility that project meets legal, health and safety and environmental rules.

• Keep abreast of new environmental legislation
• Consider legislative changes in regards client situation
• Assess a client's proposed changes likely to impact on the environment
• Provide computer modelling to demonstrate environmental forecasts
• Perform site tests
• Research new practices that reduce environmental damage

• Perform a technical audit
• Advise clients of IT requirements
• Provide specialist support
• Lead on strategic and contingency planning
• Manage, maintain and host IT communication for clients
• Design new systems
• Introduce and install new systems when necessary
• Provide on site training of client staff

• Act in an advisory capacity to client senior management
• Review management, financial and administrative processes to identify areas that can be improved upon
• Provide comprehensive report for improvement
• Interact with management to address areas that require improving
• Develop a mechanism by which to import improvements within the workplace that cause minimum disruption

• Provide research analysis
• Support prosecutors in criminal court cases
• Interact with clients to identify and clarify issues in order to reach a solution
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• Identify efficiency savings
• Clarify objectives
• Support in the development of future policies
• Research analysis conclusions
• Recommend a chain of command together with a planned contingency
• Delegate responsibilities
• Review and evaluate results