Analyze/An ordinary day in a commercial space, a customer like many others needed a service that one of the employees of the very small company which provides its customers with computers connected to the Internet allowed him to have; In concrete terms, the service consisted of transferring certain personal data from one ROM to another. At the end of the operation, the customer asked the employee how much this service costs? The employee replied: “It’s just a service. » Still in the same vein but this time in the internal and external spaces of a public service company in the capital of the North-West region of Cameroon, information which clearly specified that all services and all requests for data are free was displayed. And it wasn't a facade; all those who entered this service to obtain one or more pieces of information for various reasons, quickly realized that the information displayed was not contradictory to the service provided to them by the employees.
But the same cannot be said for all companies. If human beings indeed have the art of thinking what they do not say, or of letting people see what they do not think or that they do not even intend to put into practice, it is because of disproportionate ambitions. These bad attitudes and tendencies are the basis of the fact that, professions and services have become opportunities for scams. But what is a profession? And what is a service?
According to Australian Council of professions, a profession is "a disciplined groups of individuals who adhere to ethical standards and who hold themselves out as, and are accepted by the public as possessing spécial knowledge and skill in a widely recognised body of learning derived from research, education, and training at a high level, and who are prepared to apply this knowledge and exercice these skills in the interest of others." This means that a profession is a practiced practical skill. If in certain cases, it is during the exercise of a profession that the service is provided, in other cases, the service intervenes after the execution of a task, or after having put into practice a know-how. However, if in fact the service can be paid for or not, the fact of diverting it from its true goal in order to satisfy particular interests, is a way of giving another direction to know-how in the service of the people. We cannot separate the two. Professions and services are linked by a law of causality which does not admit one without the other. The profession calls for service, and the service requires a profession or a qualification.
The aim of the know-how is to provide a paid service or not, within the framework of an activity carried out by professionals or not. We cannot talk about profession without thinking about service and vice versa. Providing a service is already being able to do something. And even for those who are in the habit of saying that their profession or their work is not one, but rather a service, there is always before all a necessary know-how that they choose not to take into consideration, because they want to favour what they think is best, namely service. However, the service needs know-how to keep its full meaning. We cannot drown the exercise of a profession in service. Even if we only speak of service to talk about a profession or the exercise of an activity, it is because the exercise of this know-how calls for providing one or more services, which result from the exercise of a profession. There are not people who practice a profession, and others who provide a service. Rather, there is a set of practical know-how or professions that respond to a set of specific needs requiring quantities of paid or unpaid services, that are one with the source of the services they offer to others. Service is the outcome of a job or a profession, or the reason why we do what we have chosen to pursue as an activity. We cannot therefore only provide a service; to provide a service you must have previously exercised a profession. And it is through the quality of a service, that we can evaluate a profession, or the exercise of a professional activity or not. We cannot evaluate a service without taking into account, who is at the base of this service. Never one without the other. If we consider that the exercise of a profession is private, and the service public, in the sense of publication, the fact of making public what we have produced or prepared in companies obviously after having taken care of respect for some the rules of conformity, or to have self-evaluated or self-censor before any publication for others, the fact that the service is provided or made public allows it to be qualified and to be evaluated as well as the one who is at the base of this work, even if it may happen that the quality of know-how can be subject to exorbitant prices which goes beyond the framework of legality. For example, when a service has a very well-defined price, but another price is assigned to it illegally, this is bad service or the misappropriation of a good service for purely selfish purposes.
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Ultimately, the exercise of a profession always has the purpose of providing services. The profession finds its full meaning in all the services it gives or offers to others. There is always a complementarity between the two, which allows people to earn an honest living thanks to a job well done, the purpose of which is a service, or a set of services. Even when we choose not to take money after carrying out a service, it is always with the aim of establishing a relationship of trust with a clientele which will allow us to earn much more money. It is very often a strategic attitude which requires a certain know-how, in order to give a good image to a company, a profession or a set of professions carried out by Mens dedicated to the task, and who have the duty to put themselves at the service of the people.
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