Fast-Track Your Graduate Career Now! Proven Step-by-Step Program to Overcome Graduate Challenges
Posted in Graduate Experience on Feb 10th, 2009
The workplace is a coordinated and structured effort to create economic value. Technological advances are making these structures more flexible, sometimes non-existent.
For the most part however, they are still adhered to. The main components of this structure include the following:
- Physical attendance
- Core working hours
- Dependence on others to perform
- Accountability
Posted in Graduate Experience on Feb 10th, 2009
The nature of work and study have much in common to begin with, but the differences become evident very quickly as you settle into your graduate program.
The differences stem from the purpose of each:
- Work requires you to learn a skill and add value by repeatedly applying the newly acquired skill.
- Studying requires you to learn something new, prove you have learnt it and then move onto something new.
The repetitive and structured nature of work does take some understanding and requires acceptance because it exists in every job you will ever take on. Even if you are a project based professional such as a consultant, architect, engineer etc where no two assignments are exactly the same, the process you engage to address the assignment will soon enough resemble a repetitive pattern.
