Self Improvement Through Technology

I’ve read thousands of resumes/CVs. I’ve interviewed hundreds if not thousands of job seekers over the years.  One of the most common claims that keep appearing on candidates resumes and during interviews is the ability to be able to work with minimum supervision…and most of the time it proven as a false claim.

Job seekers always claim that they can work with minimum supervision….yes all of us can work with minimum, or even no supervision, but the question is will the result is good or not. You can be sleeping all the time with no supervision at all. There are a lot of areas of working with minimum supervision - and they follows the common PDCA cycle. Plan-do-check-action…

Just imagine if you are a supervisor. You give a subordinate of yours a task. Before he left, you reconfirmed whether he understood the task requirement or not. Once he says that he get it, then you let him go to execute the task. OK, for you subordinate out there….during this time the evaluation on your capability is started. You are under monitoring…off course with a good supervisor, you might not even feel that you are being watched.

OK,,now as subordinate where do you start? PDCA - yes, plan do check action. So you just go about planning your stuffs, then executing them, then recheck whether your execution is correct and act  on it if any corrective action needed. So is this enough ?

NO.

One thing that many people neglect is to acknowledge the supervisor on their progress. Some give the reason that the main thing is the result. But to the supervisor this is important. How does the supervisor going to keep track on your progress. How the supervisor going to coach and guide you, if you make a wrong move. How the supervisor can help you before it is too late. So please make sure you keep updating your supervisor on your progress. On the minimum basis most people send their weekly report to update on their progress. But depending on the task on hand, you should send more in between update on progress. Try to send as much information if you are not sure what to inform. If it is too much, your supervisor will tell you.

Trust me, this will help you with your career.