Significant Skills Ranging from Communication Skills
Assessment Description
Honors Students: Complete this assignment according to the directions provided in the "Honors Addendum," located in Class Resources.
The purpose of the journal entry is to provide a weekly overview of the type of duties you carried out during your volunteer or internship experience and relate this to your current academic coursework. Describe the important knowledge, skills, and experience you have gained and how it will benefit your future career.
In 250-300 words, describe the general responsibilities you managed this week during your volunteer or internship experience, including whether you worked collaboratively with a team or as an individual.
Additionally, describe how this experience in your volunteer or internship work can be applied to a position you are seeking in your career field. What skills and knowledge have you gained that are transferrable to that position?
APA format is not required, but solid academic writing is expected.
This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
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Significant Skills Ranging from Communication Skills
This week, I attended a seminar whereby I was involved in training new employees about the entry of invoices into the computer system, submission of requests, and documentation for the Accounts Payable Department. In the seminar, we conducted an audit of the purchasing invoices for accuracy. All PG&E new employees needed to be helped through the process, and later, I supervised them as they handled an assessment to help ascertain their level of understanding. In the volunteer program to orient new employees into the organization, I worked as a team member with the human resource managers and company external auditors. Through the activities, I learned that my clerical position extended to training my juniors. As a result, I learned through the process of instruction delivery, management of team members, and the overall designing of the instruction-delivery programs, workshops, and conducting assessments.
Considering that I am seeking a senior clerical position at PG&E company, I believe that the lessons I obtained from the volunteer program of orienting new employees are significant in expanding my pool of knowledge in executing my duties (Balcar & Dokoupilová, 2021). As a senior clerk, I am expected to conduct reviews on department operations alongside purchasing invoices for accuracy. Therefore, orienting the new workers through a training program would help me to reinforce the knowledge base and unearth creative ways of handling these activities to perfection. Since I seek a senior clerk position, I will supervise my juniors and work with them as their team leader. The volunteer program also helped sharpen my leadership skill set since the recruits looked up to me for guidance. As a team leader, I learned various leadership skills transferable to my job position. Primarily, I...