Self-reflection is the capacity to exercise introspection and the willingness to learn more about the self. This is a great time of the year to look back since I have joined the firm for more than three months already. During this period of time, I have been actively participating in various professional networks’ events and meetings, building and maintaining relationships across service lines, proactively playing a role in pursuits and client work, growing into a strong team player, delivering high-quality work product, and acquiring advanced computer and technical skills. My work and efforts significantly exceed EY’s expectations for a first-year staff; therefore, I have been receiving excellent feedbacks from those seniors, managers, and
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I leveraged my knowledge and skills to impact client value. For example, in September, I did research and analysis about Amazon’s philosophy, perspective, and efforts related to diversity, which helped Mike Ronan fully prepare for his presentation at a tech-related conference. Moreover, I continued doing more research and analysis for the Qualcomm/NXP integration pursuit on various topics and aspects, which allowed the team to demonstrate our experience and knowledge to the client with high-quality work products. o After summarizing and analyzing emails and documents sent by several legal consultants from other countries about labor union issues related to the Qualcomm/NXP integration, I was able to fully understand the process of European integration and works council interaction, and then prepared a future roadmap deck of action items and timeframe for the team to present to the client. o When I was helping translate the ULI Asia Pacific Research Survey, I suggested a better order for the survey questions that would help participants to understand easily and quickly. Moreover, I helped test the survey and corrected format and grammar. All of those ideas and suggestions came from my past research experiences.
• Contribute to discussion of potential projects on existing …show more content…
I was invited by the UW Technology and Business Association to be a speaker at the Big Four Info Session on 10/14, and the presentation went successfully. I will also assist the team with the UW Diversity Networking Night next January.
• Initiate discussions with team members to clearly define roles and expectations on an engagement; play a significant role in an engagement initiative that drives collaboration and team spirit: o When I was working on the OCM deck for Centene West Corporation with another staff from the LA office and also the Project River benchmarking deck with two other staffs in the Seattle office, I always initiated discussions to clarify the directions and expectations and define roles and responsibilities. I scheduled calls with them to assure everyone’s availability, collaborate, answer questions for each other, and consolidate all the pieces to a high-quality work product.
Quality and values
• Deliver high-quality work product that requires little or no rework; collaborate to help enhance the quality of fellow team members’ work products; perform timely, effective supervision and review of team member’s
I leveraged my knowledge and skills to impact client value. For example, in September, I did research and analysis about Amazon’s philosophy, perspective, and efforts related to diversity, which helped Mike Ronan fully prepare for his presentation at a tech-related conference. Moreover, I continued doing more research and analysis for the Qualcomm/NXP integration pursuit on various topics and aspects, which allowed the team to demonstrate our experience and knowledge to the client with high-quality work products. o After summarizing and analyzing emails and documents sent by several legal consultants from other countries about labor union issues related to the Qualcomm/NXP integration, I was able to fully understand the process of European integration and works council interaction, and then prepared a future roadmap deck of action items and timeframe for the team to present to the client. o When I was helping translate the ULI Asia Pacific Research Survey, I suggested a better order for the survey questions that would help participants to understand easily and quickly. Moreover, I helped test the survey and corrected format and grammar. All of those ideas and suggestions came from my past research experiences.
• Contribute to discussion of potential projects on existing …show more content…
I was invited by the UW Technology and Business Association to be a speaker at the Big Four Info Session on 10/14, and the presentation went successfully. I will also assist the team with the UW Diversity Networking Night next January.
• Initiate discussions with team members to clearly define roles and expectations on an engagement; play a significant role in an engagement initiative that drives collaboration and team spirit: o When I was working on the OCM deck for Centene West Corporation with another staff from the LA office and also the Project River benchmarking deck with two other staffs in the Seattle office, I always initiated discussions to clarify the directions and expectations and define roles and responsibilities. I scheduled calls with them to assure everyone’s availability, collaborate, answer questions for each other, and consolidate all the pieces to a high-quality work product.
Quality and values
• Deliver high-quality work product that requires little or no rework; collaborate to help enhance the quality of fellow team members’ work products; perform timely, effective supervision and review of team member’s