My job orientation

Orientation can be divided into organizational orientation and job orientation. Organizational orientation is an introduction given by organization to assimilate new employees into the organization. Job orientation is usually given by manager or senior employee which include training for specific job requirements. In this blog, I want to share my experience about my job orientation.

I once worked as a marketing representative in an International Conference and Exhibition Center. This exhibition center belongs to Exhibition and Travel Group. This group involved in conference and exhibition industry, tourism, hotel operation and management, real estate development and catering industry. I remember after my organizational orientation, which conducted by a supervisor from Human Resource department, I came to have a systematic understanding of our organization's structure and how each relatively individual company belonged to the organization, which represented on specific industry as i former mentioned, operating and functioning as a whole to maximize group's interests.

On the other hand, my job orientation is a long process. As a marketing representative, you have to be familiar with the process of any exhibition event from it's preparation phase to it's liquidation phase. We are the proprietors who represented the Exhibition Center and providing professional services to organizing committees. This requires us to well coordinate with provincial and city bureau of exhibitions, local law enforcement agency, medias, our group's advertising company, management levels of our group's five-star hotels, conference center and resorts, and staffs or mangers from other departments or companies if our group. In addition, my job orientation include marketing plan, client orientation, scene operation, skills for communicating with clients, government officers and staffs in other departments or companies in our group.

To be honest, I didn't have a clue about what the whole Marketing and Operation Department which I belonged to was doing until I had my full job orientation. In the process of receiving fully job orientation, I became more and more confident to make decisions and deal with any problems. Most important thing is, I totally understood what my work content was and what were my job duties.

Therefore, I think both organizational orientation and job orientation are significant to workplace newbies. In my personal experience, those orientations help me blend in a new environment easily. Furthermore, it also certify my competence in my job.