Blog #2; Work Readiness Skills

In my internship, I positively used communication and literacy. For literacy; I was able to write a computer program which sorted documents on the computer, automatically, instead of having to go through each file one by one and picking out certain documents. By doing so, I made the process a lot quicker, for myself, and my hosting company and learned about the power of knowledge and computers. I was also able to effectively use communication, by telling my employer my personal goals, which has made working together a lot easier, and has allowed my employer to use my strong suits and areas of expertise. Through this experience, I have learned that effective communication is very helpful in achieving more and optimally using resources.

Two work readiness skills which have held me back have been diligence and professionalism. In terms of diligence, when filing I lost count of the file number and accidentally skipped a document in filing, and because I wasn't acting with diligence, I had to redo the entire process, which was a lot of extra work. For professionalism, I came to work late by a few minutes, which was unprofessional and gave me a late start to work, and so I had to work harder to complete all my tasks on time.