F2F Class Notes (Celeste) [R/W]

Edit the last few paragraphs below in your next class. 

Vocabulary

atmosphere n. – the character, feeling, or mood of a place or situation / a feeling that a place has of being pleasant and interesting or exciting
eg. I love the atmosphere  (at – miss – feer ) at Pure Yoga.

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I made a list of must-haves for 11/11.

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11/11 and Black Friday are huge shopping events.
Black Friday is huge online and in-stores.  

Singles’ Day: Alibaba smashes records at world’s largest online shopping event

https://www.cnbc.com/2016/11/11/singles-day-news-alibaba-poised-to-smash-records-at-worlds-largest-online-shopping-event.html

Alibaba smashed its Singles’ Day shopping record on Friday by clocking growth of more than 32 percent, the Chinese e-commerce giant said on Friday.

Retailers on Alibaba’s platforms had recorded $17.8 billion worth of gross merchandise volume (GMV). In 2015, the 24-hour e-commerce sales event racked up $14.3 billion GMV in total.

“Back in 2013, $5.14 billion was our one-day GMV. Now we can achieve it in one hour,” Alibaba Group CEO Daniel Zhang told the company’s live blog earlier in the day, adding that in the first hour of Singles’ Day, orders were coming in 175,000 per second.

Media reports had forecast GMV from Alibaba’s 11.11 Global Shopping Festival, as Singles’ Day is officially called, to come at $20 billion in 2016, easily eclipsing the $2.74 billion and $3.07 billion respectively generated online during the Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales in the U.S. this year.

 Your Work

1. What work do you do?
2. Why did you choose to do that kind of work?
3. Do many people in your country choose to do that type of work?
4. What are your responsibilities at work?
5. Do you remember your first day at work?
6. What did you do on your first day at work?
7. Did you like your first day at work?
8. (Similar to above) How did you feel on your first day at work?
9. Do you think the first day at work is important?
10. (Similar to above) Do you think a person’s first impressions of a new job are important?

I am a HRd work for a pharmaceutical company and my job responsibility is recruitment. I don’t think HR is a very hard industry for the fresh people who is graduate from university. HR cannot be paid a higher salary. About my first at my work, I remember it’s a very horrible dayd. When I went to my current company, it’s totally different with my previous company. My previous company is a HK company which is belong to a big business group and my recent company is a private ownerd company so the policy is very mixed, is very lake of many policy, so it’s very hard to do my job according to some policy which means I need to finish my job according to my experience. And I need to work for 2 department, 1 is consumerd department, the other is cosmetic department, the y are 2 bu head with 2 total different culture. And I need to arrange 2 different plans for them. This why at my first dayd I want to quit my job, really, because I really don’t like the culture for my recent culture. And I think it’s important for a company to create a orientation for a new staff which they can learn some finance routine, HR policy, or otherd supporting functions policy. They can learn about. If the first impression is good, they will feeld much comfortable, but if not, they will feeld very weird to work in this kind of company. They will adopt their choice… They will think about did they have a right choice or not.

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I work for a pharmaceutical company in HR and my job responsibility is recruitment.
I work for a pharmaceutical company in HR and I am responsible for recruitment.

I don’t think HR is a very trendy/popular industry for the new university graduates. HR salaries are usually/normally lower than marketing or sales departments. 

About my first day at my current company, I remember it was a very horrible day. When I first went there, it was totally different from my previous company. My previous company is a HK company which belongs to a big business group and my current place of employment is privately owned. This means there is a lack of policies, therefore, it’s very hard to tell staff which procedures and policies to follow. So,  I often advise them according to my experience.

TBC

And I need to work for 2 department, 1 is consumerd department, the other is cosmetic department, the y are 2 bu head with 2 total different culture. And I need to arrange 2 different plans for them. This why at my first dayd I want to quit my job, really, because I really don’t like the culture for my recent culture. And I think it’s important for a company to create a orientation for a new staff which they can learn some finance routine, HR policy, or otherd supporting functions policy. They can learn about. If the first impression is good, they will feeld much comfortable, but if not, they will feeld very weird to work in this kind of company. They will adopt their choice… They will think about did they have a right choice or not.

And I need to work for 2 departments, one
is consumerd department, the other is cosmetic department. They are very different in the culture because their BU heads of opposite characteristics. And I need to arrange different plans respectively for them. That’s why I want to quit my job in my first day. I really don’t like the culture for my recent company. And I think it’s important for a company to create a orientation for new staff which they can learn some finance routine, HR policy, or other supporting functions policy. If the first impression is good, they will feel much comfortable, if not, they will feel very sad to work in this kind of company. They will adopt whether they make a right choice or not.