Month: April 2023

In my experience with internships, there is always a set plan for the next 3 months between school, you start with some training, and then boom! You’re off on your own getting questions from everyone and expected to know all the jargon that comes with the job. Job descriptions in my past have never been too accurate, they are always in the ballpark of what is described but sometimes it’s an understatement and some other times it’s an overstatement, both of these have happened in my past.

Something which I took from this week’s learning materials is that the job description is always a give and take and that people want to feel rewarded but rewarding employees is not always the best financial decision for employers because it requires funds and resources. To some extent this may be the most important aspect of the career path for an individual and the employer, setting the standard for the job is what brings people in and what helps keep people engaged knowing that they are fulfilling purposeful and meaningful tasks every day.

Knowing this means that keeping these promises for a job description is very difficult and sometimes they change as years go by, people’s lives change and so does the market. As an employer, you may discover that a certain employee lacks the knowledge which they claimed to have and it’s necessary to let them go before you end up losing assets due to their lack of knowledge. It is important to keep these expectations in mind while hiring people as well throughout their careers in the company. If there is no job description, there is nothing to evaluate in the employee, a job description means everything to both the employer and employee.

Thank you for reading

–Pablo Campos Viveros

Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants
Kimpton has a large majority of their employees relatively new, with 52% of them at 2 years or under, this must be because of their good benefits. I’m assuming that they attract a good amount of new people. I would try to work here, it seems like it would be entertaining. Some key things I noticed were that Kimpton practices the following: Workforce planning, Employee Benefits and has a set goal in mind to be the best they can be.

Baird
The largest percentage of people comes from those who have been with the company for 2-5 years at 23%. In my best assumption, I can only imagine the amount of data insurance companies have on their clients so It is safe to say that they use data in insurance to motivate their employees to make more deals and actively display them. With data, they can benchmark, have reports of their own, and conduct research and what is working and their underlying factors.

Box, inc
It looks like 51% of their employees are generally new and the rest reside mostly in the 2-5 year mark at 39% which is much higher than others I have seen. Their culture life at work seems to resemble most new companies which try to follow a laid-back but intense workplace and it makes a lot of sense since they are a software company. Box HR is probably very intentional since it is an information company so it is also very lean towards its employees’ data. Box looks like a place to which a lot of young people are attracted too.

My Own goals as a manager
Some of the things I want to see in my management skills after seeing the successes of these companies would be: Being approachable, easy to talk with, making people feel welcome/ valuable parts of the team, and inspiring others to be passionate in their work. In my field of work, I believe I have a lot to offer in terms of motivating and encouraging workers to perform at their best, yet I would still want to be assertive whenever needed and be able to lay down a good foundation where teams have the resources needed.