Over the course of my life, I have had different trainings for a few different industries that I have worked in. For training videos for customer service, to hands on training being a cook, to even very minimal training for being a grounds keeper. But out of all the trainings that I have done, the one that was most beneficial for me was when I was training to be a manager of the local grocery store in my small local town. The training for this was unique to other trainings that I have had. I had already worked for the store for about a year and when the opportunity came to move up a position to make better money I jumped on it. I was taking by the owner of the store and went through all the responsibilities that I was going to need to be doing with a watching first and then a hands-on approach after. I think this helped me learn a lot about what was going to be expected of me after watching the owner do it herself. This type of training made it where there was no type of confusion between us with how each task needed to be done.
After getting a job like this and working for this local store it was heartbreaking having to move away for college and losing the title of manager that I had enjoyed so much. When I moved, I got a job at Bi-mart and when I was training for a salesclerk for the company the training involved watching a series of videos and then shadowing a person for about a day or two, doing the job with someone watching over me for about a day or two, and then finally doing the job by myself. Doing this training didn’t really give me a whole lot of motivation for the job as I started it and I didn’t learn a whole lot of how to do the job or what was expected of me in the position that I was filling.