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Colleagues are easy to get along with, the work environment is acceptable, and the supervisor is very gentle.
The work is simple.
The work of an administrative assistant is fairly simple; it is just miscellaneous, and basically anyone willing to learn can do it.
It includes booking hotels for events, preparing reports for the sales team, cleaning the manager’s office, preparing product packaging materials to send to the factory, and so on.
However, I only found out on my first day that the person who previously held the position would be taking maternity leave in a few days.
They could only show me the tasks I would currently encounter, and I had to figure out the rest on my own.
I also heard that the graphic designer might be leaving as well...
Only after I started did they tell me that I had to sign a guarantee form.
I needed to find someone to act as my guarantor.
If you cannot accept having to trouble someone to be your guarantor, you can ask them in advance whether it is possible not to sign it or to use fidelity insurance instead.
The company’s software focuses more on customer functions for the sales team.
Therefore, inventory, incoming and outgoing shipments, and similar matters all have to be recorded manually in EXCEL.
Moreover, no inventory count has ever been conducted, so the quantities are very disorganized.
The warehouse is also very small, so packaging materials and other items are piled up all over the place.