There’s value in what you have to offer yourself (and your team and your boss) when you take an extra 10 to 20 minutes to complete an assignment at work that has a step-by-step process you are unfamiliar with.
It doesn’t matter who the assignment came from (coworker, your boss, the CEO, an indirect coworker or a combination of these). When you receive it and you’ve been on the job for long enough to understand the basics of how to meet the required demands of the assignment using the tools you use on a daily basis, that’s where your confidence either comes to a halt or you take the resources you’ve been getting familiarized with and your brain goes on turbo mode without second guessing. The kind where you’re rather excited to complete this assignment as a self-starter; you know the tools, so you point and click where needed but you run into speed bumps because you’re not 110 percent sure which tool can do what. You just know that somewhere in the maze of options, you can complete the assignment if you give yourself a minute to think.
This is experimentation at it’s best with one outcome: Complete the task to its entirety.
This scenario is why your boss and your boss’s boss were interested in interviewing you.
Because your boss and their boss were thinking ahead of the game, but they wanted to verify this by asking tough questions in the interviews. They wanted to know how you think. That’s why interviews are conversations, but the ball is in your court the entire time no matter how many times you choose to be savvy with questions that make them want to ask you more questions.
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When you get your first “real job,” you are part of a percentage of people in your age group who have proven indirectly to your future boss why they should hire you without your future boss having to convince their boss how you’re going to add value to the business and/or team. I would assume it doesn’t matter how well you interviewed with your future boss. You have other people’s minds you have to sell your skills to. There is a constant value being added to the business as long as innovation is in demand by the consumer.
Give them a reason to keep you around.
Damn. Today felt amazing.
Chew on that.