Question

Most people have several jobs over their lifetimes. Give a brief description of two or more of the jobs you’ve already had. Without revealing private information, explain if the job was part-time or full-time and address the following questions.

What skills were required to perform your best? To what extent were agility, problem-solving, and technology skills necessary for success? What skills did you learn in each job? How did learning these skills contribute to improving your ability to be effective in your work? Did these new skills increase your human capital? If you haven’t yet had a job, describe the type of career you hope to have after finishing school. How will agility, problem-solving, and technology skills be a vital part of your success in this type of career?

Answer 1

The two jobs I had were

1. ONLINE TUTOR: The work here was to teach mathematics to the international students of UK via audio conferencing and the kids were very young like 4-10 years old.

The job was full time ie 8 hours of job.

• SKILLS REQUIRED TO PERFORM BEST:  The work here was of teaching so the skills required was the basic mathematics as without having the knowledge of the subject you are going to teach , you look like a fish without water because they were kids and were there to learn something and what would a person teach if he himself is unaware.
• AGILITY, PROBLEM SOLVING,TECHNOLOGY SKILLS: All the three skills were really neccessary for the success . Agility was important as the session continues only for 45 minutes so you must nee to be quick and good along with that, Problem solving was important because first i need to solve the questions and only if i know how to do them , i will be able to teach the same question,Technology skills were required because sometimes you may face the network errors and there is nobody around you so you need to troubleshoot yourself.
• SKILLS YOU LEARN:  I first of all improved my basic mathematics skills, then i also improved my communication skills as i had to interact with international kids,I learnt being patient as it is yor job and you are just an employee.
• HOW LEARNING THESE SKILLS HELPED IMPROVING YOU ABILITY TO WORK: After having good command over mathematics i was able to make the kid understand easily, communication skills helped me to interact in a better manner and petient helped me when i had to wait for the entire 45 minutes for the kid and he is absent.

DID THESE SKILLS INCREASE MY HUMAN CAPITAL: Yes these skills have definately increased my human capital

2. CUSTOMER SERVICE: The work here was to call the customers and try to convince them, also i need to give the customer service to them.

The job was part time

• SKILLS REQUIRED TO PERFORM BEST: The work here was of interacting with the customers so the skill required was the communications. As the way you communicate make a very good impact on the customer.
• AGILITY, PROBLEM SOLVING,TECHNOLOGY SKILLS: All the three skills were important for achieving success . Agility was important as the targets are given so you need to be quick enough to complete the targets on time,problem solving was important as you face different types of people daily and different techniques are required to convince them so it requires problem solving as they may ask you anythig, Technology skills were important for the purpose of troubleshooting.
• SKILLS YOU LEARN: The skills i learnt were interpersonal skills, being patient, control short temperedness, cooperation.
• HOW LEARNING THESE SKILLS HELPED IMPROVING YOU ABILITY TO WORK: Improving my interpersonal skills helped me to interact in a better manner, patient helped me to understand the customer, controling anger helped me respect the customers and cooperation helped me to assist the customers and providing them the support they require.
• DID THESE SKILLS INCREASE MY HUMAN CAPITAL: Yes ofcourse, these skills did increase my human capital.