Part 1 – The Interview

What is your job title?

Vice President of RCAP Leasing ( Division Of RBC)

What is your job description?

Manages staff, in-charge of day to day operations, sales.

What are the duties and tasks you perform at your job?

keeping your sales team on track, solve problems within workplace and give some of his employees the connections for getting sales done.

What qualifications do you need for this job in the following areas?

a) Training?

No training is needed, however a strong business background and being smart with money and good with math is crucial, good with people

b) Education?

technically no specific prerequisites

c) Experience?

Lots of experience in leasing experience, managing people, and doing sales in general

d) Skills and Attributes

multitasker, math, problem solving, communication, time management

What are some things that you like about this job?

The amount of money made would be nice and the work hours are flexible as long as the job gets done.

What are some things that you dislike about this job?

I personally do not like working in closed in space all day so I did not like the office space. The commute is quite bad because it is in Vancouver. The travel is inconvenient because he ends up going away 1 – 2 weeks a month to go to the head office in Toronto.

How do you anticipate this job changing over the next 5 years?

not a whole lot. There are lots of things that can be automated in the future but this does not seem like one of those things. It has lots of different things that need to be done and I don’t think there is a easy way to get it done automatically.

Student Reflections:

overall I really enjoyed the day. I love the flexibility of the hours and I really do think that I learned a bunch of useful information. However, I do not see a job like this being in my future because sitting in an office is one thing that I found very difficult since I can’t sit still.

Give 3 reasons why you would like this job:

1. it is in the middle of downtown Vancouver so their would always be something I could do when I take my lunch break because of all of the different restaurants down there
2. I don’t know how long it would last but I feel like it would be fun to build up a positive relationship with the other employees on your floor.
3. The amount of freedom within the job. When you go into work there is no set time of when you leave and when you get there. As long as the work gets done it is all that you need. Unless you have a meeting at the office. If it was me I would try to get as much work done at home and only go in on the days that I have meetings so I minimize the commute time overall.

 

Give 3 reasons why you would not like this job:

1. The commute is pretty terrible some days. Every day it takes at least an hour to get into work and an hour to get back. The way I see that commute time is its time that you are spending just to get to work that you aren’t getting payed for.

2. I start to feel sick. When we sit up in an office with not much airflow all day my head started to hurt and I started feeling a bit sick.

3. It seems to be very stressful. You have to be good with the way you talk to people and you have to be able to motivate other people to get their work done and done properly

 

Is this job for you? why or why not?

as where I am right now I would not say that this is a job for me. I had quite a bit of trouble staying up in the office all day because I really just wanted to get moving around and get some fresh air. Another thing about this job is you need to be really good at talking to other people and things can change but as it is right now I’m not very good at that either.