Management In The Workplace

Information technology is a rapidly growing industry, providing an integral role in todays faced paced work environment. I learned much more from our guest speakers than I expected from our surprisingly brief interactions. I was interested in how the speakers interacted with customers and clients, how they dealt with management in the workplace, managing personal life and work life, general responsibilities on the job, and arguably the most important – landing a job that they enjoy. Dealing with customers was always something I personally felt would be the most difficult part of the IT process. Brady telling the class that “for the most part clients are pretty chill, if you are nice to them they’ll probably be nice to you” was probably the …show more content…
All of the information that the speakers presented us was pretty much what I’ve already kind of run into, that it just comes down to the personality of management, you can get a boss who is very intense and micromanages, or a boss who believes that you can do the work and lets you handle it. Having Brady speak let us see both sides of that spectrum, as he said that he had a manager who he believes was the best manager ever, as she took your individual skillsets and applied them towards each individual task at hand and a manager who micromanaged every interaction he had with a customer and client by scouring each ticket that was closed. It does look like there has to be equal effort given by both sides, in that the employee has to show drive and initiative before a manager could fully trust them to perform the work on their …show more content…
Brady was extremely confident while speaking to us, which probably directly extends to his interviews and interviewing; he made it pretty clear that by showing interest in different things and presenting yourself in a positive and confident matter you are the person for the job. When the class asked about what he recommends in an interview he summed it up cleanly by simply saying “it’s okay if you’re wrong, it’s not okay to simply not try because they are looking at your problem solving technique.” Having someone who was clearly incredibly confident in his interview skills break it down that quickly and succinctly really helped quell a lot of the nervousness that I had coming in. After hearing Brady speak I went and looked into applying for scholarships because his suggestion of just applying for everything that’s offered because they are primarily recruiting tools made sense to me. Entering the workforce was easily what I primarily was concerned