Reflection Paper On Work Experience

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Work Experience Assignment

Upon completing my first full year at university, I wanted to be busy during summer deciding to look for a job. Reflecting on my skillset, I began looking for jobs involving customer service or legal work. As a result of this, I began working for a social media company called GetAssist, initially working as a door to door agent, before receiving a promotion which saw me transition to the Business Development sector. Although I had previously had no experience working either of these two jobs before, I learnt a handful of skills which are still being utilized. As discussed in lecture, there are various theories which look to unravel the dimensions behind the work place, finding explanations for why inequality and …show more content…

As a racialized minority, there is always the chance that seeking employment in a primarily white dominated society may result in discrimination with employers refusing to hire racialized individuals, perhaps, on the belief that doing so may disrupt work place dynamics. Fortunately, I did not have to go through this with GetAssist. My first position involved a team of ten individuals, who were responsible for entering various neighborhoods across the southwest as ambassadors of the company dispensing our message to residents with the aim of connecting them on our network. Out of this team of ten individuals, six of my team members including myself were racialized minorities which is reflective of human capital theory. With this theory asserting that employers are rational decision makers looking to find the best individuals for the job, the diversity of my team in a white dominated company demonstrated that there was no discrimination on the basis of race and the individuals chosen were the right people for job. Further, each member of the team was paid an hourly wage, and received commission based on the amount of residents signed up in the community which is consistent with Human Capital Theory since it asserts that the harder you work, the more rewards and benefits you …show more content…

Although my new role still required me to use former skills such as interpersonal and emotional intelligence which I had learnt as an ambassador, I had to learn new skills such as adaptability and organization as I made the transition to the business development sector. Seeing that my employment with this company now held more weight as I now held a bigger role in the company, I decided to prioritize these two new skills in order to ensure full competency in my new position. In contrast, my partner who had received the promotion with me made the same mistakes our coworkers did when we were ambassadors, feeling adequate with the increased hourly wage and the chance to earn a commission dependent on the completion of a sale. Within a couple of weeks, my hard work paid off as I became the top business developer in the office breaking the record for most sales made in a week, while on the other hand my partner who had decided to relax had his employment terminated by my superior. According to Human Capital theory, success is dependent on what one brings to the table, and the way through which one increases their worth in the labor market. In the case of my

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