Month: April 2025

When I am asked what my brand is, I would say someone who is has a bubbly personality and likes to care for others. I am a determined individual and am willing to put in the hard work. These qualities are something that I have tried improving about myself every day because they are qualities that employers are looking for in an individual. I have a weakness with technology and understanding how it works. In the past I have struggled with Microsoft apps such as Excel and Project. Despite these setbacks I have worked hard to understand how these applications work and have become attuned to technology as a whole. I would say what makes me different or unique is that I am always willing to try a different approach and understand what someone’s reasoning is for doing an action.

If I was to be in a novel or in a creative situation wanted ad I would write myself as someone who is artsy and loves to see the beauty in everything. I will sometimes just sit outside with my sketchbook and think of inventions and the life of the outside world. I find that there is a quiet angelical beauty to a quiet space. I would mention that I am a dedicated person who is a go-getter. I don’t like to wait around like a sitting duck on the chance that something happens to me. I want to experience things head on and am willing to adapt to my environment. I sometimes have a hard time letting people in and will put up a wall, but once someone gets to know me and I let them in, there is nothing I wouldn’t do for that person. I am quick to protect those who can’t defend themselves and am always willing to teach others how to stand up for themselves. I have a bite that’s bigger than my bark but try to channel that energy into my work. I have always felt connected to animals and try to surround myself with the furry critters.

For this week, we are asked to think about our last job we had and whether the job description influenced our decision on whether or not we would apply for the position. For my last job, and still my current one, I would say that the job description influenced my decision a great deal. I work as a teacher at an after school program where I help students learn how to improve their reading through a teaching format called SIPPS. When I heard about the job, I was told to go to the Corvallis District website. When I got there I was very impressed by how organized and detail-oriented the website was. I was able to find the position almost immediately and found an in-depth description of what the job was going to be like and how my team and I would work together.

I will say, while the Corvallis School District did a great job of giving a detailed description of what the teaching job was going to be like, I do have days that I would not have expected to happen. As a teacher, there is the baseline rules and regulations that you are given, and how you should react in certain scenarios, but children have a lot going on in the first eight hours of their school day, and when they get to us at Pages, my reading program, a lot of them are tired and dysregulated. This means that most days we are helping students regulate themselves and learn valuable life lessons on top of the reading lessons they are already doing. There are so many different family situations too and that can impact a student’s learning ability and focus a lot.

When looking into the applicant’s perspective on applying for a job, there is the uncertainty when filling out the application of what the hiring personnel want. When I applied to my current job as a teacher, I tried to highlight my most critical skills that I thought pertained to the job. I also knew from experience that it is good to have specific examples on how your skill set can be portrayed and always have your resume handy. When I first submitted my application, it took them three days to get back to me. I felt that their promptness to the hiring process made the job even more endearing. The communication through email was thorough and I felt they were very clear on their expectations for the role. I was asked extremely in-depth questions about my experience working with kids and it made me feel like they actually cared about the type of person that they would be hiring for the teaching role. After I was interviewed, they gave me a realistic callback time when they would get back to me on whether or not I was to be hired. It is my understanding from the many experiences I have had in the workforce that you can tell how the company culture and job expectation is going to be based on the interview process. I have had jobs where they were lax on their communication or they asked very surface level questions and the job ended up reflecting the interview process. This job currently has been the best job I have had in a long time, and it reflects greatly from the interview process.

The scenario describes a company that you love being under claim that it was facing a lawsuit about being discriminatory towards people with different backgrounds such as ethnicity, culture or beliefs. Would this change your opinion?

I think what I would do first is I would look into the claims, because there is millions of new articles out every day that have claims that don’t have any research or evidence to back them up. Most of the time it is about celebrities, such as when the world thought Asher and Kunis broke up, but they happen about companies too. Only after I did my own research would I decide if I would change my views. If I found the claims to be true, then it would one hundred percent change my views on that company and I would stop supporting them. I feel that my morals are very strong and that everyone has a place here on earth and for a company to make people feel less than is not somewhere I would want to work.

While it is extremely important to put effort into the interview process and the hiring of new employees, there still needs to be focus on employee retention and making sure the company is getting the right kind of press. There are companies that will focus on marketing or on product design over employee recruitment and selection because they are trying to have a solid foundation for their company before adding on more people. It is important to build the backbones first before laying the groundwork. While there is reasoning why companies will do this, there are both pros and cons to this decision. The positives include having a great jumping off point for a company that will give them the opportunity to be able to do great in-depth research into the people they are hiring, and the organization’s reputation will improve from the press and bring in a lot of candidates. Some weaknesses of focusing on marketing and product design before employee recruitment could be if the company is not much bigger than a mom and pop store then they run into the possibility of an unstable work environment and make it harder to find candidates to fill employee spots. It can also lead to some resentment from the current employees if the work from marketing and everything is too much on their plates. It is a delicate balance that a manager has to decide for themselves and their organization on whether or not it will be beneficial. The manager also has to be willing to take on some of the work to help their employees not become burnt out.

When looking into the applicant’s perspective on applying for a job, there is the uncertainty when filling out the application of what the hiring personnel want. When I applied to my current job as a teacher, I tried to highlight my most critical skills that I thought pertained to the job. I also knew from experience that it is good to have specific examples on how your skill set can be portrayed and always have your resume handy. When I first submitted my application, it took them three days to get back to me. I felt that their promptness to the hiring process made the job even more endearing. The communication through email was thorough and I felt they were very clear on their expectations for the role. I was asked extremely in-depth questions about my experience working with kids and it made me feel like they actually cared about the type of person that they would be hiring for the teaching role. After I was interviewed, they gave me a realistic callback time when they would get back to me on whether or not I was to be hired. It is my understanding from the many experiences I have had in the workforce that you can tell how the company culture and job expectation is going to be based on the interview process. I have had jobs where they were lax on their communication or they asked very surface level questions and the job ended up reflecting the interview process. This job currently has been the best job I have had in a long time, and it reflects greatly from the interview process.

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