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Top Insider Advice
Believe in yourself, fight for your values and try to be independent in everything you do. When I say independent I am thinking about continuous learning, knowledge gaining and hard work. Sir Francis Bacon said "Knowledge is power" and this is my advice for me and why not for you. Never stop learning, apply what you learn and teach your peers and friends based on your knowledge and experience. Working in Quality for so many years I always have in my mind some words of Aldo Gucci "Quality is remembered long after price is forgotten", therefore try to do everything being responsible, being true and with "quality" and your value will be noticed all the time
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Quality and Production Engineer
Kingfisher Plc
Started 02/2020 to PresentCompany
What do you like about your job and the company?
What I like most about my current position is the opportunity of being a sort of entrepreneur. I have the flexibility of organizing my work in order to accommodate the job responsibilities and the requirements of Kingfisher. Working with product development helps me learn all the time about different categories of products, legal compliance expectations for different countries, testing protocols and many other technical aspects. At the same time I enjoy working in a very diverse and multicultural environment. I'm really driven by results. I like it when I have a concrete goal to meet and enough time to figure out a strong strategy for accomplishing it. Sometimes the times is not enough for me to figure out a strong strategy from the beginning but working in this position makes me become more agile and discover new types of approaches.
Greatest achievements
To deliver projects on time in full is not an easy task. For some may sound easy, but actually it's not. This is something that I was always paying attention to and focused on. In Kingfisher I am a part of many projects, therefore it is very important for me to do my part in due time and properly, work in harmony with my colleagues and together as a force to deliver the project on time and in full. It requires from my part a lot of energy, attention, motivation but I enjoy it. I was once told that as a person I am intrinsically motivated, and this is something that I am really proud of.
Isabelle P
GROUP SUPPLY SPECIALIST
Top Insider Advice
The best advice that I can give you is to be true to your values during the interview. Like everywhere, a company is above all made up of people so be yourself and think about the people you are meeting and potentially working with as well as the job itself. If you are not hired after an interview, it means that this role is may not have been the right one, but the right one will come along. Keep believing in you and your capabilities and never give up!
Dominic W
Lead Engineer
Top Insider Advice
There isn't enough kindness in this world generally, but as a person that has to recruit is quite clearly obvious in most interviews when you are being your authentic self. As an engineer, you would often exclaim at the stereotypical management that you would hear about on the internet. As I grew into the position that you would hear stories around, and developing myself, I realised that all those are based on trying to second guess the answers that you think the interviewer would want to hear. Generally, I want to just find out about the person; approach an interview as an opportunity to show who you are, what you enjoy and what you are good at. Be open and honest with your answers and don't forget that an interview process is a two way process.
Katie B
Service Transition Manager
Top Insider Advice
Don't get used to something and stuck in your ways, keep an open mind and try to look for the value in the change, at the same time don't be scared to challenge or ask for more detail before you make up your mind, and if you still don't think it's the right thing be vocal but also be willing to try.