February 19, 2011

This month, both my direct supervisor and my superintendent were away on holidays for a couple weeks. I was left responsible for a lot of the work required from HR. While the workload was immensely heavy, I had never felt more important, motivated, and ready to work. While I was responsible for a lot of recruitment work that consisted of things such as scheduling interviews, doing interviews, scheduling feedback sessions, organizing travel itinerary for applicants, and doing sign ons; I was also involved with new employee sign ons, going through resumes, attending meetings, and dealing with WCB cases. While faced with such a busy workload I had also successfully met the entry level recruitment goal of 10 candidates for this month which was considered to be pretty impressive by my supervisors.

The main highlight of this month for me was attending the Courageous Leadership workshop at the beginning of the month. This workshop was created by Teck as a company to inspire its employees to be leaders in ensuring that the workplace is safe and healthy. The workshop was very inspirational to me as it highlighted important points such as being responsible for our own and other's safety, having the courage to speak up, being a leader, and having the right attitude. It was meaningful to me in that the content could also be applied to my personal life and not just at work.