Today I went to work for the first time. I got pissed already in the morning because a guy from AIESEC was supposed to take me there the first day to indtroduce me. He called me yesterday evening to ask at what time I should be there and where exactly it is. He assured me several times that he would come early in the morning and we'll get to the company on time...Hmm, but it wouldn't be India if everything was so easy ;o) The guy came 30 min late but it was OK, we still had enough time to get to the company. BUT, he told me we needed to wait for another guy from AIESEC who knows where the company is. So we were waiting for the second guy for more than 30 min again. He came by taxi and together we continue to the company when after 45 min the AIESEC guys had a very lively discussion about where my workplace is. Finally, one of them called the company to find out that we were on completely wrong side of town. So we spent other 30 min in the taxi before we eventually arrived to our destination at 11 am (I was supposed to be there at 9:30).
They introduced me to my new boss who told me more about the company and introduced me to my new colleagues (two ladies...not a big team ;o)). He wasn't able to tell me much about my job and responsibilities. He just told me to go through what they've done so far to understand the business. Well, I don't know if I'm completely dull but I really didn't get the point. I understood pretty well what they do but not what I'm supposed to do.
Basically, there is one lady (Hema) responsible for all trainings. She search for all information about the topic (eg. Presentation Skills, Communication Skills) gather them and depending on client's demand, she prepares all materials (agenda, icebreaking games, role playing, ppt presentation, handouts...) for a training of few hours or even 2-3 days. Then, a profesional trainer or Hema (or me in the future ;o)) use all these materials for the training itself. After Hema had explained this all to me (eventhough it was not that clear as I'm explaining it to you right now and I had to process it a little bit in my head). Yeah, and if I had understood it well, I should do the same job as Hema does...so yes, it's a real curriculum development/management, i.e. preparing the whole training from A to Z. Hopefully, tomorrow I'll start to work on some project on my own. There is a big project for a university - one year training on Communication Skills; a little training on Business English for a Korean business man; and a project for a hospital to train Indian doctors and nurses to better communicate with foreign patients.
Well, I was not able to find out which of these projects is the most urgent so that I know what I should start to work on. Hema just told me that I should choose some topic from the proposal sagreed with the clients and work on it...well, so I'll try it and we'll see if I had understood well my task or not ;o)
By the way, Hema (45 year old lady who spent 15 years in USA and is very much different from other Indian women) and Ramya (young girl responsible for office management) are very nice. They laugh a lot and aren't serious about the job that much (obviously, the boss has no idea about this) I mean, they do a very good job but like to break rules and gossip about our boss as well ;o) But the boss seems to be nice too. He's just quite strict about respecting working hours and spam us with a lot of "useful" information. I hope I'll be able to negotiate with him about my working hours because I'm supposed to work every second Saturday from 9:30 to 13:00 which I don't like at all since the way to and from job takes me one hour. Keep you fingers crossed for me!
They introduced me to my new boss who told me more about the company and introduced me to my new colleagues (two ladies...not a big team ;o)). He wasn't able to tell me much about my job and responsibilities. He just told me to go through what they've done so far to understand the business. Well, I don't know if I'm completely dull but I really didn't get the point. I understood pretty well what they do but not what I'm supposed to do.
Basically, there is one lady (Hema) responsible for all trainings. She search for all information about the topic (eg. Presentation Skills, Communication Skills) gather them and depending on client's demand, she prepares all materials (agenda, icebreaking games, role playing, ppt presentation, handouts...) for a training of few hours or even 2-3 days. Then, a profesional trainer or Hema (or me in the future ;o)) use all these materials for the training itself. After Hema had explained this all to me (eventhough it was not that clear as I'm explaining it to you right now and I had to process it a little bit in my head). Yeah, and if I had understood it well, I should do the same job as Hema does...so yes, it's a real curriculum development/management, i.e. preparing the whole training from A to Z. Hopefully, tomorrow I'll start to work on some project on my own. There is a big project for a university - one year training on Communication Skills; a little training on Business English for a Korean business man; and a project for a hospital to train Indian doctors and nurses to better communicate with foreign patients.
Well, I was not able to find out which of these projects is the most urgent so that I know what I should start to work on. Hema just told me that I should choose some topic from the proposal sagreed with the clients and work on it...well, so I'll try it and we'll see if I had understood well my task or not ;o)
By the way, Hema (45 year old lady who spent 15 years in USA and is very much different from other Indian women) and Ramya (young girl responsible for office management) are very nice. They laugh a lot and aren't serious about the job that much (obviously, the boss has no idea about this) I mean, they do a very good job but like to break rules and gossip about our boss as well ;o) But the boss seems to be nice too. He's just quite strict about respecting working hours and spam us with a lot of "useful" information. I hope I'll be able to negotiate with him about my working hours because I'm supposed to work every second Saturday from 9:30 to 13:00 which I don't like at all since the way to and from job takes me one hour. Keep you fingers crossed for me!
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