Work Experience and Its Relevance to Business and Management Course

This essay discusses the work experience of Elena Ilie in different fields and how it has advanced her skills and knowledge. It also summarizes how her experience relates to the course of study applied for, which is Business and Management.

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Contents
Contents...........................................................................................................................................2
1. A summary of work experience...................................................................................................1
2. A consideration on how that experience has advanced skills and knowledge............................1
3. A summary of how that experience relates to the course of study applied for............................2
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................3

1. A summary of work experience
Working in different fields provides an individual a basis for intellectual challenge along
with assists to upgrade skill sets together with learn for new ones (Sharma, Israel and Bhalla,
2019). I, Elena Ilie started working as housekeeping where I gained experience related to
performing ample number of cleaning practices including mopping, sweeping, dusting along
with polishing. In this job field, I have gained insights about managing addition to avoiding
mistakes while devising decisions in housekeeping department. The job field not only included
assisting guests, rather, also entailed well illustrated management competences in form of
planning, leading, controlling as well as decision making. After some time period, I have
switched my job career to accounting field wherein I learnt to maintain addition to expand
financial health of an enterprise. In this, I have carried out activities to track financial revenues
and expenditures, ensure compliance of statutory regulations and management in making
business based decisions. Further, I have tapped professionalism in construction field in which
my experience taught me significance of visiting job site prior releasing plans for building or
bidding. While working in such jobs, I have learned to speak Italian and other languages well. I
have also worked as supervisor in which I gained experience of leading a team along with
executing plans that are developed by seniors. With this experience, I have set my objective of
life to open an online business in future.
2. A consideration on how that experience has advanced skills and knowledge
Job experiences have advanced skills and knowledge of an individual to great level (Torres,
Ferraz and Santos-Rodrigues, 2018). As working in different professional field have helped
Elena Ilie to build networking skill, communication skill, organising skill, attention to details and
many more. In my work experience, I have attended various kinds of professional events which
turned out to be more valuable to me to learn aspects concerned with growth and development of
skills and knowledge in a distinct career. There were local businesses, professional groups along
with business associations that hosted seminars and workshops that leaded to providing me direct
access together with insight for expert in my profession. While working in different professional
areas, I gained insight that knowledge addition to skill are essential in life of an individual
because it not only assist in getter preferred job, rather enhances decision making, analytical,
problem solving and so on.
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3. A summary of how that experience relates to the course of study applied
for.
Elena Ilie is applying for course of study of Business and Management. My job experience
in distinct professional areas have helped me to develop and improve ample number of skills
including management, communication, problem solving, decision making and many more. As
having personal objective of opening an online business in future, my experience assists me to
gain knowledge related to my choices for learning. The course of study is similar to personal
objective which will help an individual in improving insight for theoretical concepts related to
managing a business and achieving success in real life (Flick, 2018).
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals:
Flick, U., 2018. Triangulation in data collection. The SAGE handbook of qualitative data
collection, pp.527-544.
Sharma, K. K., Israel, D. and Bhalla, B., 2019. Does previous work experience matter in
students’ learning in higher project management education?. Engineering, Construction
and Architectural Management.
Torres, A. I., Ferraz, S. S. and Santos-Rodrigues, H., 2018. The impact of knowledge
management factors in organizational sustainable competitive advantage. Journal of
Intellectual Capital.
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