{"id":78,"date":"2021-04-05T10:11:47","date_gmt":"2021-04-05T10:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/emmasun\/?p=78"},"modified":"2021-04-05T10:12:03","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T10:12:03","slug":"practicum-week-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/emmasun\/2021\/04\/05\/practicum-week-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Practicum Week 5"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>5 weeks at P&amp;G has been jam-packed with new experiences and so many opportunities for personal growth. I\u2019ve spent a good amount of time getting to know a beyond wonderful team and have thoroughly enjoyed forming deeper connections with the people I\u2019ve teamed up with. My coworkers have been so fun to talk to, and it\u2019s very clear to me that they\u2019re all passionate about what they do at P&amp;G.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From coffee chats to team meetings, here are some top takeaways and morsels of wisdom I\u2019ve garnered from the mighty team at P&amp;G:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Take advantage of all opportunities, put yourself out there&nbsp;<\/li><li>Keep reaching out to people!! In a busy agency where everybody has their hands full, it\u2019s on you to get out there and make yourself useful. Make your presence and skillset known so that people can keep you in mind when they need help!!<ul><li>This has been especially challenging because of covid, so it\u2019s been a great exercise for me to be more sociable and to take initiative.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Everybody was once at the intern stage, as long you\u2019re working hard to continuously improve, don\u2019t beat yourself up for not being at your coworkers\u2019 standard.<\/li><li>There\u2019s always more to learn and improve on, the education don\u2019t stop when you\u2019re out of school!!&nbsp;<\/li><li>Once you stop learning in your job, it may be time to move on to something else<\/li><li>Seek help from other people, you\u2019re in a team!!!&nbsp;<ul><li>And then get to a level where you can return the favour&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Initially struggling in multitasking and better communication, here are some things I\u2019ve done to improve based on everybody\u2019s advice (still improving!):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>It\u2019s better to underpromise and overdeliver on deliverable timelines, rather than the opposite<\/li><li>Communicate with project managers early on regarding when I can get the task done<ul><li>Immediately look over the deliverable brief to gauge how long it would take and to reach out ASAP if there are any questions<\/li><li>It\u2019s better to over communicate than say nothin\u2019!<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>\u00a0If I don\u2019t think I can take on a task, clearly explain the reason (What I\u2019m currently working on, etc.)<ul><li>DON\u2019T JUST BLINDLY SAY YES<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Prioritize projects by<ul><li>Due date<\/li><li>Client -&gt; Internal<ul><li>Sometimes these dates aren\u2019t clearly stated so just reach out to project managers to ask about what to place priority on!<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Refer to my allotted hours to also gauge roughly what my resourcing should look like for the week<br><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/emmasun\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8848\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-23-at-9.21.32-1024x675.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-79\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/emmasun\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8848\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-23-at-9.21.32-1024x675.png 1024w, https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/emmasun\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8848\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-23-at-9.21.32-300x198.png 300w, https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/emmasun\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8848\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-23-at-9.21.32-768x506.png 768w, https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/emmasun\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8848\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-23-at-9.21.32-1536x1012.png 1536w, https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/emmasun\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8848\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-23-at-9.21.32-2048x1350.png 2048w, https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/emmasun\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8848\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-23-at-9.21.32-880x580.png 880w, https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/emmasun\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8848\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-23-at-9.21.32-220x145.png 220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>My first and probably only time winning a quiz (it was on gen z lingo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"921\" src=\"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/emmasun\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8848\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-04-05-at-3.09.29-1024x921.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-80\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/emmasun\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8848\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-04-05-at-3.09.29-1024x921.png 1024w, https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/emmasun\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8848\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-04-05-at-3.09.29-300x270.png 300w, https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/emmasun\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8848\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-04-05-at-3.09.29-768x691.png 768w, https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/emmasun\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8848\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-04-05-at-3.09.29-880x792.png 880w, https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/emmasun\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8848\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-04-05-at-3.09.29-220x198.png 220w, https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/emmasun\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8848\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-04-05-at-3.09.29.png 1478w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>The first quiz I made!! Puttin&#8217; that art history class to good use. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And that\u2019s my blurb on week 5, see you next week!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>5 weeks at P&amp;G has been jam-packed with new experiences and so many opportunities for personal growth. I\u2019ve spent a good amount of time getting to know a beyond wonderful team and have thoroughly enjoyed forming deeper connections with the people I\u2019ve teamed up with. My coworkers have been so fun to talk to, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8785,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/emmasun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/emmasun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/emmasun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/emmasun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8785"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/emmasun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/emmasun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/emmasun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions\/82"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/emmasun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/emmasun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/emmasun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}