Quality Assurance (QA) Director Reviews - Page 4

"it is not what you know, it is who you know". If I had known how important networking was to advancement in my career I would have begun in college. Also, when you get into top management positions, it is a small world and most executives know each other. Do not burn any bridges early in your career or it will come back to haunt you later.

Grow thick skin quick. Operations staff consider you the sheriff in town.

In this world of standards and specifications governing pretty much everything we do, to become a standout, all new employees need to do is know where to find accurate and verifiable information. One would think the GEN X, Y & Millennials would be experts at this. But the ones I've hired seem to be missing 2 critical components: The Discipline to dig for answers, and when they do, there is "no filter" -- no innate understanding of even the basics of right or wrong for them to interpret and apply information. And the really difficult part of training todays workforce is that things like discipline and Grit to follow through with projects is one of those virtues which, by the time they are in their early 20's, is very difficult to teach or instill. By then their paradigms are set and their filters are set to sift-out only what applies to their world. To combat this in our work place I focus on teaming and the process approach toward job completion.

Gather as much subject matter knowledge as possible.