One of my main goals when beginning to work here at the Mayor's Office was to increase my professional behaviors. Even though I am in engineering, I also want to obtain a degree in business. In order to be successful later in life in my career path of choice, I need to know how to deal with people in a way that is efficient, polite, and professional.
Speaking of professional, that is a word that gets thrown around lots by various important people in my life. We as college students hear all over the place: "Look Professional.", "You are representing group XYZ now and you need to be professional", "Take those kinds of pictures off your Facebook, you don't want a picture to hinder your professional career.". After hearing all this professional talk, I have really been striving to define professionalism for myself, and trying to apply it to my life in any way I can. For me, being professional means not loosing my cool whenever someone calls who I may just want to hang up on. It means not getting angry back at a constituent who is very very frustrated with something going wrong in their life because of a City sponsored program. It means keeping my wits about me and knowing exactly how to handle a situation, and if I don't know what to do knowing who to ask. And finally it means, not throwing my keyboard across the room because the 'g' key doesn't always like to work. Professionalism is an aura, and I'm learning here that everyone takes it a little differently. Watching these highly professional people at work, only adds to how I want to project myself to others. Finally, the biggest thing I have learned about being professional is that you can always learn more and polish yourself more. Much Love, M
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AuthorMiranda Hileman is an honors student at the University of Cincinnati embarking on a journey to combat the insanity of working for a public official. Archives
December 2014
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