{"id":4633,"date":"2020-08-23T16:15:23","date_gmt":"2020-08-23T20:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jepsoninternship2020\/?p=4633"},"modified":"2020-08-23T16:15:23","modified_gmt":"2020-08-23T20:15:23","slug":"personal-contributions-to-work-culture-and-client-deliverables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jepsoninternship2020\/2020\/08\/23\/personal-contributions-to-work-culture-and-client-deliverables\/","title":{"rendered":"Personal Contributions to Work Culture and Client Deliverables"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the areas of the office I feel like I contributed a lot to was the onboarding process. Avascent hasn\u2019t yet set a date for when people will begin to transition back to working in the office, so they interviewed all the summer analysts so we became involved in\u00a0 creating the new onboarding process for the full times joining in the fall. For\u00a0 example, we helped reorganize the order of training and recommended that there was at least one session a day for a \u201ccoffee break\u201d with their mentors so they\u00a0 had some casual \u2018getting to know you\u2019 conversations as well.<\/span><\/p>\n

Most largely, I was able to help plan, organize, and execute the slides used to brief clients. Through the internal meetings,\u00a0 my opinions were used to shape the way we\u00a0 presented to clients and I felt heard by my superiors (especially since analysts become the subject matter experts as they spend\u00a0 the most time doing \u201cin the weeds\u201d research). Specifically, I built many slides on competitor profiles on my Lockheed Martin project that\u00a0 required me to research contract histories and create predictions on where they were investing next based on their internal research and development spending. On my second project with the Govt of Canada\u00a0 I spent most of my time building workable definitions for quantum\u00a0 technology and adjacent sectors as well as compiling a master list of all\u00a0 firms working in the sector in Canada.<\/span><\/p>\n

Our summer analyst class also hosted\u00a0 a weekly happy hour\/game night for anyone in the office to join. Even though it wasn\u2019t\u00a0 directly related to the work we were doing it helped integrate us into company\u00a0 culture and gave the\u00a0 full\u00a0 time hires a\u00a0 way to hang out remotely with their coworkers as well.<\/span><\/p>\n

Overall, I felt like I was lucky to\u00a0 feel as if the majority of what I was spending time doing was impacting either a final work product or internal initiatives in the company. Despite\u00a0 the remote work setting I was always\u00a0 on a team (sometimes more than one) that met at least once a day to check in on our progress with work. Through the many different streams of hierarchy, there were always ways to\u00a0 provide feedback on your\u00a0 bosses or team\u00a0 members and you could\u00a0 see the feedback being reflected as time went on.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the areas of the office I feel like I contributed a lot to was the onboarding process. Avascent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3495,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[76614],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-contributions"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jepsoninternship2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jepsoninternship2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jepsoninternship2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jepsoninternship2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3495"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jepsoninternship2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jepsoninternship2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jepsoninternship2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jepsoninternship2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jepsoninternship2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}