...For my second job shadow I job shadowed Jonah Brindley, who is the Production Manager and Sound guy at the Tower Theatre in Bend, Oregon. I chose to job shadow here because of my interest in theatre and so job shadowing one of the shows was at the top of my list of things to do. I chose the Tower Theatre as it is one of the only theatres and only had a choir concert happening on an available day for myself and Jonah. The Tower Theatre is a 2 story building with a basement in Downtown Bend. During my job shadow was the Christmas parade also so I ended up parking 6 blocks away and hiking to the theater. The sound board operator is on the first floor sitting in back of house. The lights operator is in the booth upstairs which also doubles as an office space for technical staff. The building is actually very cramped as it was never intended to be a fully functional theatre but more of an orchestra hall, hence the shells being built into the walls. Due to the theatre culture in Central Oregon this would be impossible and so its entertainment type has to be varied to actually keep the theatre up and running. Being cramped talent are shoved anywhere and everywhere as there is...
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...both Men’s and Women’s Basketball teams at the College of Charleston). I selected job shadowing because it is a very useful activity that allows a person to explore a career that they are interested in by spending time with a professional working in that field. It provided me more insight rather than just reading a job description or even asking an employee to describe what they do. While job shadowing, I was able to ask questions and experience the trials, triumphs, and normal day-to-day activities that Marc Pronto, Candice Jackson, and Amanda Taylor might experience while working in their jobs. I was able to experience how the professional approaches the job, the necessary social cooperation, standard operating procedures, and the tools that I need in order to perform the job successfully. Normally, job shadowing usually lasts only a day, but in...
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...I began my job shadowing process by talking face to face, and asking permission from Roxy Moorman, a friend of my mom's. She’s a preschool teacher at the the old Webster Elementary School building in Oskaloosa, located at 508 South 7th Street. I job shadowed on January 12, 2015 from 8:30 AM to 12:30 PM. To become a preschool teacher, you must take a few courses of training. First, you need a early childhood degree. After you complete this degree, you must take CPR, first aid, and bloodborne pathogens training. These trainings go over specific situations, and helps prepare you in case of an emergency. Her job duties require her to teach younger children, and make sure they are engaged in projects. While teaching, she must check on assessment of the students learning. She must also watch kids during recess time, to make sure they are safe and playing. Other duties include communicating with parents about behaviour, sickness, and learning. This communication also includes parent-teacher conferences, and open house for the preschool. Salary ranges for preschool teachers vary by position. A yearly...
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...I went to Promedica Monroe Reginal Hospital for my job shadow. The job shadow host name was Heather Fleemon. The career I job shadowed was a pediatric nurse. Heather arrives at work at 11:00 a.m and opens up the pediatric room. After that, she just waits until she has something to do. In the morning there isn’t a lot of kids that get sick. She makes sure that the rooms are stocked for incoming patients. She works from peds to trauma, but mostly pediatric. When she have problems, she turns to her fellow co-worker that works in the same department with her, or she asks the other doctors and nurses that are stationed on her floor. She works inside of a hospital where all they wear are scrubs and they are not allowed to wear visible tattoos. There was not a lot of activities going on because it was early in the morning, but when there was, a man came in with a stomach virus and they have to hurry and treat them. Also, there was a baby with a diaper rash and they prescribed him a cream for it. It was not very exciting. The nurses literally sit...
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...Job Shadowing the Career of an Accountant Emily A. Youngblood Northwood Inc. Abstract This paper was written in accordance of a job shadow I recently conducted at Northwood Inc., of an accountant manager named Denise Nass. Questions that are asked include why I am interested in this career, my previous knowledge, what I learned, the positive and negatives of this career, and my strengths and weaknesses. I’m interested in this career because of the creativity, “number-crunching”, and the environment. From previous accounting classes I know that accountants produce financial statements, budgets, and control inventories. I went to Northwood for a day and observed the actions of Denise and the other accountants in the department. I found that accountant involves many management aspects such as strategic planning and problem solving. I realized that accountant managers receive great pay, benefits, and work in a focused environment. On the other hand, it was very obvious that accounting can be quite boring and difficult to deal with individuals who are very different from yourself. My strengths include being very organized, have patience, can deal with different personalities, and have great problem solving skills. The only weakness I can see associated with this career is how easily I get stressed out. JOB SHADOWING THE CAREER OF AN ACCOUNTANT Since I was in high school, I always knew that when I was older I wanted to become an accountant. I was never really sure what type...
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...For my job shadow I followed around my 4th grade teacher, Mrs. Strate. I learned a lot while job shadowing such as, it is hard to take care of so many kids, and staying on task is very difficult. One of my responsibilities was making sure each kid was ready to go out to recess. Since it was still cold I helped some of them get their coats on. I also had to go out to recess with them and make sure no one ran off. I also had a experience where I had to bring one of the kids to the nurse after he fell down and scraped his knee, while still trying to watch the other kids! One time during my job shadow experience Mrs. Strate had to leave the room while the kids were working on their math assignment. Immediately mayhem started, I had to sit everyone back in his or her seat. One thing I noticed was if a kid needed help or didn’t understand, they would just stop working! When that happened I had to help....
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...For my job shadowing I chose to job shadow a dental hygienist. My job shadow took place at Always Gentle Dental in Dearborn. I learned a lot from this experience it was very valuable and educational. Always Gentle Dental is a very quiet and friendly facility. The typical work day and specific skills that are required for being a dental hygienist are taking x-rays, cleaning, and taking notes of the patient’s teeth. The tasks seemed fairly easy there is not much labor involved. I really enjoyed my job shadow experience, but overall I what I liked the most about my job shadow was that everyone was very friendly and helpful; they answered all my questions thoroughly and thoughtfully. On the other hand the only thing that I didn't...
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...I had an opportunity to job shadow at Kryder Veterinary Clinic and Lincolnway Veterinary Clinic. This was a great way for me to see first hand what my career as a Vet Tech would be like. I got to see dental procedures, water therapy, medication protocols, and many other interesting things that pertain to being a Vet Tech. My first day of shadowing was at Lincolnway Veterinary Clinic. I was introduced to staff and given a tour of the clinic. Once we finished the tour of the clinic I was shown the exam rooms and they explained to me which types of animals normally go into which room. They had a cat room, small dog room, large dog room, a euthanasia room, and a couple other rooms for the busy days. The euthanasia room was set up differently from all the other rooms. It was more comforting and had room for families...
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...Personal Essay: Twenty and Serious I was 19, and it was my first week on the job as marketing director for a leading financial services organization in North America. Our awkward exchange was one of many I've experienced as a young woman in a big job. People expect a much older-looking person, not a girl who could pass for a college sorority sister, to be speaking to them about life insurance or finance. I guess I have always looked young for my age. When I was a freshman at a community college, people mistook me for 16. Now that I am almost 21, bouncers still eyed my ID suspiciously checking for validity even at an 18 or older event. Looking younger than your years is a bonus when you're over 40 (or so I hear) but a bummer when you're a 20 year old kid like me, especially a kid who landed a dream job and is trying to command some respect. Before I started my career, being mistaken for someone younger was no big deal. But during my first job as a Marketing Director, I quickly realized that looking "too young" could be a curse for me at work, one that would keep fueling my insecurities even when I landed a position of authority. In my first marketing director job, I had an encounter that scarred me for years. An older woman I was meeting with about our finance services looked me up and down and squealed with amusement: "Well, don't you look all of 12?" Her voice dripped with snobbery. It was hard enough being the lowest person on the totem pole in the office, but having my...
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...Case 1: Heart Attack Managing People and Ethics 3/25/2011 Management 301- Business Organization and Management Eboni Thrower, Jennifer Jackson, Gerald Grant III, Taneisha Pryor Dr. Makamson 1.___________________________ 2.___________________________ 3.____________________________ 4.____________________________ I. Problem Statement Was Mr. Hamid wrong for firing Shauna? Mr. Hamid placed an ad for a part-time bookkeeper at a local college and Shauna came across it. The work Mr. Hamid needed finished for his company would only require the bookkeeper to stay in work with him for about two months. She applied for the job and received the job the same day. During the interview Mr. Hamid stated that he would pay her $150 per week. Realizing that if she accepted $150 per week she would not be making as much money as she would if she worked on an hourly rate; she had to come up with a plan. Shauna negotiated with Mr. Hamid and agreed to work Monday, Wednesday and Friday for seven hours a day for 21 hours a week at $10 per hour. In this agreement Shauna would be put on a three month probationary period, which consisted of no time off, vacation, sick days or holidays off. Shauna was a hard worker and an excellent bookkeeper for Mr. Hamid. She always completed every project and obligation that was ever asked of her beforehand. Shauna constantly asked Mr. Hamid for extra work to do in the office to keep her busy. She never took any time off from work, nor did she ever...
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...occurred? | My co-worker thought that I was trying to take over as the representative of his student. | How could the misunderstanding have been avoided? | The misunderstanding could have been avoided if the co-worker would have called me back before going to his supervisor. | In this situation, I was the one who made the first mistake; that being that I didn’t put my notes into our database when my student referred her husband as a possible student. My student’s husband then called the next day and spoke with my co-worker, Michael, who took all of his information and enrolled him. I received a phone call from my student the next asking why I had told her one thing and Michael had told her husband another. With Michael being new to the job, I thought he made a simple mistake, so I called and left him a voicemail suggesting that we talk about the students to make sure that we were on the same page in what we were telling our students. I then wrote my supervisor an email telling him what I did and said. Michael, upon hearing the message, went to his supervisor because he had the impression that I was trying to take his student from him. His supervisor went to mine asking what was going on. My supervisor explained everything and the matter was resolved. As a result, both the students did not complete the enrollment process or start school. The main thing I learned from this whole ordeal was to make sure that all of my notes are complete and to make sure...
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...benefits of tuition reimbursement to student-employees. She states that these companies help a student with their school costs as well as money in pocket. As well as filling your pockets the author explains how building a solid resume while in college is also important. Ramachandran sums up her article with explaining how important your schoolwork can be. She states some helpful tips; do not expect to pay off college while still in college. The author brings everything into perspective by explaining that students that work 10 hours a week on average have a much better GPA than those students that work 25 or more hours. With dealing with the financial stress of college jobs are not always the answer. Financial aid advisors can help you get money that you won’t have to pay off until later. “After all, the primary job for those in college is to be a...
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...director. The participant group was asked to self-report on perceptions of role ambiguity, experienced levels of anger, anxiety and workplace threat appraisal. In this study, participants were asked questions as to whether they fully understood what was expected of them at work on a day-to-day basis regarding particular tasks, or a range of tasks. This data was then compared with responses to questions which probed whether they had felt anxious or angry at work. Threat appraisal was determined by whether the respondent felt it was more or less likely that their work day was going to be a negative experience for them. Dr Searle’s study found statistically significant correlations between a lack of clarity an individual has regarding their job requirements and reported feelings of anger, anxiety and their threat appraisal. These findings reinforce earlier research conducted by Robert Pearsall from the University of Maryland which demonstrated that these increases in anxiety, anger and threat appraisal can...
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...many organizations implementing the same. It provides flexibility to work part-time and work from home, which is a critical issue for many working females particularly and also among the male members where they can manage their family and work life very well. It provides a heightened sense of loyalty to the employees because they know that their boss trusts them to do their job sincerely, which in turn increases their pride and responsibility towards their work. It has been witnessed that productivity improves when the focus on work improves. It allows people to develop a better understanding of their job and eliminate office space time-wasters like "fake meetings" etc. ROWE also eliminates the illusion of productivity created by the "come early, leave late" mentality many firms require for promotion. Thus the focus is primarily towards results instead of punching the time clock or logging desk time. 2. Identify factors in the ROWE program that might make using it for retail employees more difficult than using it for managers and employees in corporate offices, technical centers, and nonretail jobs and locations. The ROWE-type program has been implemented by various organizations across a broad spectrum in different departments such as IT, back office, etc. But at places like retail stores or bank branches, where one to one customer interaction and service...
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...environment may cause can be detrimental to a person’s health. When anyone| | |is stressed, it can create a number of problems with their health. | |Identify a situation in which you experienced stress in the workplace or provide a |Fictional example: I had been scheduled to work 4 late shifts, out of 5 working days. Every other | |fictional example. |employee only had to work 1 late shift. I brought it to her attention and explained that it was not part| | |of the job requirements when I was hired on. She was visibly upset that I had brought it up and did not | | |want to discuss it at all. Instead, she changed the schedule and made it unbearably tense for the | |...
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