My First Cooperative Education Placement

During my instructor led field experience, I was placed in a first grade classroom. The teacher in this classroom really had a great grasp on management in her classroom. She used the Classdojo app. The teacher had the option to award student points or take them away throughout the day. This was also an app that kept parents informed on their devices of how their child was doing throughout the day. I really enjoyed seeing this in real life. Hearing about this app in management or technology didn't do it justice. The students really were aware of the points and managed their behavior.

Organizational success is dependent on several interior and exterior factors. While exterior factors are important, the internal workings of an organization are vital. Specifically, empowered employees and effective communication contribute indefinitely to accomplishing common goals within the company. The foundation of successful high performing teams is through effective leadership. Without effective leadership, company morale and productivity can decline causing, the company to fall into a downward spiral. Therefore, to pursue and maintain a career as a leader in financial management, I will need to empower employees and effectively communicate the goals of the organization.

When considering GSA’s strategic direction, we should first build an understanding of its relative position within the private equity market. GSA’s current value proposition to its clients is: 1) Greater accessibility to private equity firms through GSA’s customized services, allowing less sophisticated clients to progress from a passive fund-of-funds investor into a direct private equity investor, removing the intermediation between the GP and the client; 2) A strategy of “vintage-year diversification”, whereby GSA contributes to funds over a number of different years in order to gain access to many different types of funds; and 3) A compensation structure that is weighted towards carried interest at the expense of fees, ensuring an alignment of interests between GSA and its clients. These strategies have helped the fund retain large and important

In order for the corporate lending unit to meet the goal of cutting 15 percent of the operating cost, a redesign team comprised of volunteers from the different departments of the unit. The purpose of this redesign team was to develop a design for the account management team that will streamline the departments function when it comes to serving its customers. This design will allow more resources to be readily available to customers through the Internet. Also, this team will be addressing reorganizing and designing new roles for the AMs to work more efficiently when it comes to addressing the needs of the customers. The development of this team is considered more of transformational leadership, where the GM pushed the senior management team to encourage their employees to volunteer and have a say in the mission to meet the goals of the unit.

In the course of my years as an undergraduate student in Rutgers University – Newark, I maintained a full-time work schedule as well as a full-time school schedule. Not only did this provide me with a strong work ethic, but I was also able to develop a strong academic foundation as well. In the years that I spent working as a customer service representative for TD Bank, I was able to steadily involve myself with a large group of diverse people. During my career with TD Bank, I witnessed disagreements and arguments amongst employees which presented to become a problem all throughout our branch. All through this difficult time, I actively attempted to alleviate any and all complications. I maintained and promoted a positive and healthy work environment by persuading coworkers to try to understand the miscommunication that had developed amongst them. I also worked closely with my human resources department to understand the root cause of the problems, and assisted in finding a solution by maintaining the trust and confidence of my coworkers.

Did you know that Alliance Charter Academy has an online merchandise store website with over 850 school spirit items? From hoodies to key chains, to dog bandanas. This store is not hard to find. Go to Alliance Charter Academy’s website, click on the “Student Resources” button, and scroll all the way down the “Spirit Store”.

In 2-3 years I would finish my education either at “George Brown College” or “Gorgian College” and hope to get a job position as a Dental Hygenist. By going on this path I know there would be a lot of challenges I would have to overcome and stress levels would rise from the work loads of work. I need to work very hard to accomplish this goal by doing the courses the colleges offer and to set high marks on them. I have to review my notes everyday and be prepared for next lessons. In order to be in the college I need to get the courses that is related to dental hygiene in high school and other mandatory admission requirements such as additional activities and many others.

Last semester, I competed for the PricewaterhouseCoopers Competition challenge, in which I was able to work with three women and come with a solution for a problem a company was facing while considering their financial goals and objectives. Moreover, I also interned as Financial Planning Intern for The M Group and Associates. Through this position, I was able to learn more about financial services including investment planning, asset management, employee and executives benefits accounts, retirement planning, and many others. I was able to contact customers and explain different financial services available as well as their benefits and limitations. My Security Analysis Portfolio Management (FIN 421) allowed me to use MS Excel to do portfolio rebalancing, compute accumulated real retirement savings for different return realizations, implement rick parity strategy for backtesting, and be a portfolio manager for a large pension fund and use mean variance analysis to allocate funds across major asset

The people that work there are very nice and they are people that I would want to spend time with on the weekends. They are all very fun and witty, but not very professional. On one occasion the Chief of staff told a fellow intern to shut up and never talk again for mentioning a football team loss. On another occasion the intern supervisor unplugged the other intern’s computer, in the middle of a project, and giggled as she walked out. This kind of behavior is not profession for students to be in, nor is it an uplifting environment to excel in. In part, the office struggles because it’s staff are so young. There is an energy that comes with youth, but in this case there is also an immaturity.

At my ongoing placement year at KPMG, I was recently assigned as the In-charge for a group of three summer undergraduate interns from the months of June – August 2016. My role included acting as a guide to the new recruits, showing them the ropes of the various functionalities of the unit, and being their first point of contact in case of any issues or challenges that may arise at work. This was a very good experience that gave me an insight on leadership in the professional environment, and also gave me the chance to see the importance of not only to be a “teacher” in a position of leadership but also the relevance of being a “student” as well. At university, I had the opportunity to be the Treasurer of the FXU chapter of Enactus, a society

In the summer of 2015, I interned with Bank of America. At Bank of America I was given the title Student Leader and was positioned to work in conjunction with a local non-profit partner, the YWCA of the Central Carolinas. Within the YWCA I helped to maintain the organization's day-to-day operations in order to ensure a successful implementation of their not for profit services within the Charlotte community. Throughout my time at the YWCA, my duties included, operating philanthropy initiatives, managing off-site youth learning centers, and organizing meetings for the board of directors.

Smith College is known as the school that gives opportunities to any women in the world regardless their background. As a future government student focusing on international relations, I believe that the multicultural environment that Smith College has will teach me to embrace the cultural and ideological diversity of the world, a key characteristic that I need to adopt for my major. Attending to Smith will keep empowering me as a woman and leader. The holistic approach of the government program, open curriculum and the fact that it is part of the Five College Consortium will allow me to select the classes that are required and the ones that I am interested in. Smith will present me the opportunity of developing my own research investigation

Through my internship with both the Mesa County Valley School District 51, as well as Family Health West’s Pediatric Rehabilitation, I have learned a vast amount about occupational therapy. I have learned about its importance and its necessity, as well as the array of ways it can help individuals in need. I have also gained countless experiences that I am very thankful for. Additionally, I have accomplished all of the goals I sought to when starting this internship with leaps and bounds. I helped with many tasks and projects, I accomplished challenging, but realistic, responsibilities, I developed professional competencies needed for a future job as an occupational therapist, I utilized the knowledge of the professionals I worked with, I applied the knowledge that I learned in the classroom and I gained an understanding of the qualifications, knowledge, skills, and duties involved in occupational therapy.

In other words, the management of Wells Fargo has already passed from good to great. Kovacevich strives to create an atmosphere of employee satisfaction and trust. It is true that he finds it profitable to maintain happy workers who execute their jobs better but we saw much more than the pure profit added to these open management ? employee relations: we saw a caring leader, humble enough to risk his authority to be undermined by critiques. Several years after Collins? book was published, the management at Wells Fargo is still approachable, humble, humane, and very charismatic.

During my time at TRUCE, I witnessed many of the problems that are prevalent within non-profit organizations such as low job security, high turnover rates, and bad communication among the staff. After processing these different issues have definitely impacted my interest in working with non-profit organizations at the ground-level, in the future, I believe that I could be more effective at an administrative level. Nonetheless, this internship has given me insight into the deeper complications that occur within non-profit organizations and witness firsthand the troubles that face people who are working directly with the population the organization is serving. These observations will help me be more effective and mindful when making decisions at an administrative level. I believe that HCZ is a wonderful organization and is a strong model for other non-profit organizations, but all organizations have room further development and are not immune to