Radiographer skills shortage

• Male health workers should be allowed to perform breast screenings amid staff shortages, experts say

This was headlines on several sites, while controversial, there is still a shortage of Radiographers.

To this end, I have tried to put some information together, with regard to the skills and qualifications needed for this vital role.

• National careers service
• NHS JOBS – Radiographer

So from the National careers service site:-

Entry requirements

You'll usually need:-

• 4 or 5 GCSEs at grades 9 to 4 (A* to C), or equivalent, including English, maths and science
• 3 A levels, or equivalent, including at least 1 science
• a degree in a relevant subject for postgraduate study

You can study science with The Open University, which may be a starting point for research in to gaining what is needed.

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#UK,#SkillsShortage,#Careers,#Jobs,#Radiographer

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Devon needs AI skills for growth

BBC NEWS:

Interesting article from BBC news on 9th April, Devon needs AI skills for growth. The Devon & Somerset Local Skills Improvement Plan are looking at ways to help people develop the skills for the future.

I think AI can sort of be put in to 3 boxes

• Machine Learning (ML)
• Generative AI (GenAI)
• Large Language Models (LLM)

I have put a Blog post on Linux foundation training which has some links, to courses run by the Linux Foundation, EdX and others and in fact EdX, offer a number of AI courses, but as everything needs something (usually a server running Linux) to actually run on, it seems that learning how to use, maintain and administer GNU/Linux operating systems is also essential. There are a lot of AI software / Tools or Libraries under a GNU or similar licences anyway.

It could be an opportunity for the Devon and Cornwall GNU/Linux user group to expand and gain new members, who can at least get help and advice to get started, even though it is much easier to install than it was 25 years ago.

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#Devon,#SomerSet,#Skills,#AI,#LLM,#GenAI,#ML,#Training,#Jobs,#Linux,#GNU,#GNULinux.

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Scismic Event 30seconds to sell yourself

Date & Time Nov 14, 2023 06:00 PM in London Description Do you have an elevator pitch to help you convey your career goals at networking events? Jayne Mattson, author and career coach can help.

• Sign up link

Meeting is via zoom

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#Events,#Jobs,#Scismic,#Selling,#Promotion,#JobHunting

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Scismic : Finding your ideal industry role

The next scismic webinar is on 24th Feb

Please see here for the signup form.

Event is free, 10- 11pm UK (GMT) but your time zone will vary.

While Scismic are focussed on Biotechnology roles, these webinars usually have some takeaways for a lot of other industries, so well worth attending.

• Scismic

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#Jobs,#Webinar,#Scismic,#IndustryRole,#BioTech

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ToriOS Internship Program – version 1.0

• We need people who enjoy #programming and want to do it for fun, to create really nice small things that can be used easily by almost anyone.
• All levels of programming are fine.
• People need to have #motivation to do this because they want to, themselves. They need motivation to learn more because they are growing.
• They must have the ability to #fail and #learn from it.
• As long as those exist, #skills will come. Anything anyone already has to begin with is fine.
• Rust, serde, FLTK, DBus, X11/etc, XDG, lexer, TUI, Linux, Every Window Manager there is, Rust coreutils/chroot/squashfs?/etc for building, TOML/JSON/INI/etc, HIG/UI/UX accessibility, Bash scripting.

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Goals:

1- Oxidize the C++ programs used in ToriOS, and improve them. 2- Oxidize the scripted builds. 3- Oxidize the scripts used in ToriOS, and use serde for configuration, support multiple formats in and out. 4- Build separate libraries for separate tasks. Many small libraries that can be reused are better than one big one for everything. 5- Bring these components together and create a desktop environment using any window manager. 6- Replace GNU with Rust equivalents to make Oxidized Linux as the base of the operating system. 7- Configure multiple window managers using the same graphical tool, allowing for the conversion of one window manager format to another, seamlessly. 8- build menus for window managers with an oxidized menu generator. 9- Oxidize FLTK applications menu program. 10- Make portrait and landscape layouts for the desktop. Using dbus to load things when needed.

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Longer term wish list goals:

1- Rust + FLTK to create a modern panel/tray system. 2- Handle the virtual desktops, use ~/Desktop.d/... for handling multiple desktops with multiple icon layouts. Just a desktop manager, not a file manager. 3- Build our design of a very modular onscreen keyboard. 4- Make all GUI apps display a TUI when no $DISPLAY exists. 5- Volume manager to trigger whatever events are configured. 6- Pre-built Phone images to flash as well as ISOs to download. 7- replace any GTK specific programs with Rust + FLTK versions. 8- use a native Rust GUI toolkit when one is mature enough.

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Note:

The word [#Oxidize] is used to mean converting an older program to use Rust, instead of whatever programming language it was originally written in.

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IF AND ONLY IF YOU MEET ALL THE REQUIREMENTS, please apply by sending an email to: [ ali AT torios DOT top ]

• Subject Line must contain [ToriOS Internship ver 1.0]
• Introduce yourself – mention your REAL name.
• Country – wherever you currently live.
• Written consent that have read + agree on each and everything mentioned in this post.
• Please explain WHY you think I should let you in?
• NO begging please. Begging means reject.
• DO NOT send any Resume/CV because that means reject.

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Scismic webinar January

I am looking forward to the next Scismic webinar 'event next month is 'LinkedIn for The STEM Jobseeker' which will take place in January.

Date : Wednesday January 19 2022 Time: 9:00 to 10:00 pm gmt

Tickets: : here

For details, please see the Scismic Website. I get access to these because I am signed up on their website (free).

If you are interested in a career within Biotech then these webinars are really worth checking out, as is Scismic. I would also recommend the CV template workshop they did in association with Overleaf a while back. Please see the Overleaf Webinars page for more details.

However these webinars / workshops are interesting anyway and have some useful ideas / advice etc.

#Careers,#Jobs,#BioTech,#BioTechnology,#Overleaf,#Scismic

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Scismic webinar December

I am looking forward to the next Scismic webinar 'event next month is Maintaining Resilience During Your Job Search' which will take place in December.

Date : 15th December

For details, please see the Scismic Website. I get access to these because I am signed up on their website (free).

If you are interested in a career within Biotech then these webinars are really worth checking out, as is Scismic. I would also recommend the CV template workshop they did in association with Overleaf a while back. Please see the Overleaf Webinars page for more details.

However these webinars / workshops are interesting anyway and have some useful ideas / advice etc.

#Careers,#Jobs,#BioTech,#BioTechnology,#Overleaf,#Scismic

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