Does Your Job Require Teamwork?
By kdhartford
@kdhartford (1151)
United States
5 responses
@nesher (237)
• United States
3 Jan 08
I am a Customer Support Manager, and when I am hiring, one of the criterias of the successful interview is ability to work in team for the featured candidate. No matter, how bright engineer can be, he/she cannot be an expert in everything. Help, cooperation, and support is one of the most essential parts of the successful team performance. Especially in Field Service (Customer Support), when engineers work with customers on daily basis.
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@kdhartford (1151)
• United States
5 Jan 08
I work with engineers and find that they are not people oriented. I think that the more success ones are people people first and understand teamwork.
@nesher (237)
• United States
6 Jan 08
I have to disagree with you. Service engineers tasks are half-technical, half-communicational. No matter reliable the equipment is, service and maintenance are needed. For 1/5 million eqiupment, customer cannot afford to the equipment downtime. However, not always tool can be fixed immediately. Teamwork is needed to execute the task the most efficiently and to convince the customer that he is a "happy customer" with "excellent customer support".
@kdhartford (1151)
• United States
6 Jan 08
Well I don't disagree with you. In the end results are what matter and even the most likable guy who can't fix anything is not going to have that job anymore.
@Kalyn43138 (63)
• United States
14 Jan 08
Yes, it does require team work. I am part of management for a retail store. We get in huge truck loads every week. Also we have to do customer service, get promotional sales tasks done, and we do a re-set every month. Without team work, half of that would not get done. I work 11 hours a day and I am on the go the entire time but about 30 minutes of it.
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@kdhartford (1151)
• United States
14 Jan 08
Thanks for commenting. Being able to work as a memebr of a team is a skill that will be invaluable in the future of work.
@kdhartford (1151)
• United States
6 Jan 08
Thanks for commenting. I think team work is very important and there are many organizations that I can see that can take advantage of teamwork.
@xingkong178 (298)
• China
2 Jan 08
yeah,i am a student majoying in software ,i am sure in my field ,without team work, nothing can be done caz any job is too huge for one man to complete
@kdhartford (1151)
• United States
5 Jan 08
Team work is very important to your field. Thanks for you comments.
@kdhartford (1151)
• United States
26 Feb 08
Thanks for your comment. I agree with you to a point...individuality will still be valued in the future and teamwork should not erase that.
