Tuesday, September 4, 2007
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- Rick
- These blogs find me in one of my favorite roles, communication teacher. I feel blessed to be able to make a career out of better understanding, and helping others better understand, how humans communicate.
2 comments:
It's easy to understand how Paige is feeling after her orientation. She comes in a little wide-eyed and new to the business world while those around her are more seasoned and used to the business world. Overall I think Paige just needs to relax a little. Yeah, her job isn't exactly how she imagined it, but in life things don't always turn out the way we think they should or expect them to.
She'll be able to adjust and fit in at her job just fine. You don't necessarily have to have the same skill sets and mind sets.
Where Paige puts herself in the customer's position and others think from a more business centric standpoint, it doesn't mean that she can't excel in areas like customer service and find her own niche that works for her within the company.
She hadn't even made it through her first day with the company. Things will get better.
I agree with Jeremy. Paige is putting herself down as an employee way before she even started her actual job with the company. Orientation can be very overwhelming for anyone, especially if you do not know much about the company prior to it. By going through a seminar process, you are able to gain more knowlege about the company, and see what they focus on. The goals, mission statement, and values of a company will help you determine if that company is a place that you could work at.
I think that Paige is assuming too much about the corporation prior to experiencing it. If she is making up assumptions based off of that the other employees are saying, she isn't allowing herself to experience the workforce herself. I think I would be intimidated by working for a large corporation just out of college, but I would also reserach is prior to applying for a position there to make sure that I would like to work for that company. Kelly has the right idea about keeping positive, and you will be alright. When you get your first "real" job, you have to start to pick out what type of companies you would like to work for, and learn from the ones who you tried to work for.
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