Kulwant: Lead Hand At Tenneco Automotive Inc.

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Kulwant originally wanted to be a plant breeder and had an interest in plant genetics. He loved plants and wanted to do research in developing new plant varieties. Therefore, he got a Masters of Science in Plant Breeding. After University, he worked as a Research Assistant in Pulse Breeding. Then he had to leave his job after only working 9 months to immigrate to Canada. Unfortunately, when he got here he couldn’t find any jobs related to plant breeding, so he was forced to do odd jobs to make a living. Since then, he was never able to get a job in this discipline.

When he got to Canada, Kulwant first worked as a Lead Hand at Tenneco Automotive Inc for a year, since he didn’t really have relevant job experience in anything, but had to take care of his family. He assisted in coordinating his coworkers. After that, since he lacked qualifications he became a production worker. He worked this job at A.G Simpson for 3 years. Then he had gotten laid off. Since he was laid off, he was offered funding to complete a course as a CNC machinist. He took an Apprenticeship
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At his current job of Quality Control Auditor he has the responsibility of training new employees, teaching them how the warehouse works, auditing the locations and inventory of products in the warehouse, and assigning jobs to the junior employees depending on need. He really enjoys training new employees and helping them with their jobs. Helping people makes him strong, and allows him to improve himself and learn new things. He is satisfied with his job, since he enjoys what he is doing, and easily earns enough money to afford necessities. What he doesn’t enjoy about his job is the disorganization of things, since he also has to control the inventory of products in the warehouse. He also doesn’t enjoy working with people who are disorganized and undisciplined, but he understands and points out that not everybody thinks the same way that he

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