{"id":7400,"date":"2019-01-28T10:12:39","date_gmt":"2019-01-28T09:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.traineebloggen.se\/?p=7400"},"modified":"2019-01-28T10:12:39","modified_gmt":"2019-01-28T09:12:39","slug":"exploration-and-experience-through-job-rotation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.traineebloggen.se\/index.php\/2019\/01\/trainee\/exploration-and-experience-through-job-rotation\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploration and experience through job rotation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Hello all,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Welcome to\nmy blog post! I am currently situated at the SKF headquarter in Gothenburg, Sweden\nand I just had a very inspiring day in the factory in Gothenburg. However, I would\nlike to start with introducing myself and giving you some insights from my\nfirst time at SKF as a global graduate. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Me at the SKF headquarter<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

My name is Josefin Locking and I have a Masters\ndegree in Strategic Human Resource Management and Labour Relations from the University\nof Gothenburg. As Aline, who wrote the previous blog post, I am also part of\nwave 3 of the global graduate program and I started in the end of August last\nyear. This means that I am currently in my first rotation. It is an\nexhilarating time at SKF as the organization is undergoing a lot of interesting\nchanges to make sure SKF is in the forefront also in the future. Right now, I\nam working with several strategic global and local HR projects supporting this.\nGamification,\ndigitalization and new ways of working, just to mention a few areas of super\nexciting initiatives going on. To take part in that feels great! Adding the\nglobal dimension makes it an intriguing challenge, as SKF colleagues from\nalmost the whole world becomes part of your scope. I would say it is a truly\ndeveloping and great learning experience. With me, I have great senior and global\nprofessionals with immense experience and great energy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first impression of SKF<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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All the girls together during the graduation dinner for wave 1<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

My first impression of SKF as a global graduate actually started before my first workday. My manager invited me for a lunch, briefing me about my personalized program, and gave me an office tour to see my future desk and meet a few colleagues. It was great and I remember myself being very excited before my starting date. Since the first day I have received a very warm welcome and the graduate program and SKF are doing their utmost to make it as great for us as they possibly can. As Aline wrote in the previous blog post, we had a great introduction month, all global graduates from wave 3 together, and everyone is now in their first rotation in their home country. We are still keeping in touch though! Working at a global company, I am often in contact with people situated in different countries. This is something I really enjoy, and it is one of the reasons I applied for the SKF graduate program in the first place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Job rotation, job rotation, and more job rotation<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The global\ngraduate program is an intriguing 18 months journey, which I am now in the\nmidst of. While the program is tailored for everyone, the common part for\neveryone is job rotation. It is really in the heart of the global graduate\nprogram. As you probably already know, the graduate program consists of three\ndifferent rotations, five months each. Usually, it is one in the home country\nand two in other countries. For me, my second rotation will be in Turin, Italy.\nIn just two months I will go there, and I am looking forward to it a lot! The\nthird rotation is not yet decided, but I am also very excited about that. I am\nsure it will be great. My manager is giving me such a great support in setting\nup the rotations for me, and she is really making an effort to make it as great\nas possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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All the graduates in wave 3 – along the beautiful coast in Gothenburg<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

However, for me, the job rotations are not\nending there. On top of the three rotations in the different countries, I am\nalso doing a lot of rotations and shadowing within each rotation to meet many\nof my colleagues and to get an overview of their areas. Currently, I am joining\nthe local HR team in the Gothenburg factory for three weeks. I get the\nopportunity to develop my knowledge about their areas and the factory, while\nalso getting to know the people. It is set up with a combination of shadowing\nof my colleagues and I am also managing my own work in a few smaller projects. It\nis very interesting to work by myself in the area which I am rotating to, and\nit gives me the opportunity to get to know the people in action. To give you\nsome insights in what projects I am working with, I can say that the topics\nrange from digitalization and competence development to talent management and\nglobal change initiatives. Complementing the smaller projects, I also have projects running\nthrough my whole rotation, and one which I will have through the whole graduate\nprogram. This creates a good balance, not making it too scattered, and still\ngiving me the opportunity to really experience the local areas where I am\nsituated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today I\nhave talked with some of the managers here and I have also joined a cross-the-site\nHR meeting. A lot of things are happening. On a personal side, I am starting to\nget used to being constantly new in different environments. And while it is\nsometimes a bit tough when I feel that I don\u2019t understand everything, it is\nalso very nice to learn this much. The experiences I make now, I will have with\nme for the rest of my life. Moving around a lot in the organization also means\nthat you get to meet a lot of colleagues, and while I have to be open and bring\nmy energy to all new places I rotate to, I think SKF is a very easy\norganization to get to know new people in. The culture is very open, and I am\noften invited to different meetings, lunches and happenings. It is super nice,\nand I feel thankful every time I am in a new part of the organization and I get\nsuch a warm welcome. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Making a difference<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bringing the iPad robot to GADDEN<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

For me it is also important to be\nable to make a difference. Being new in the organization it is of course much\nabout learning and developing yourself, but to be able to contribute is also\nvery important I think. Working for a company that encourage people to take\ninitiatives, empowering them to try their ideas is key. During our introduction\nmonth I think almost every senior executive encouraged us to do so. Exemplifying\nall their words, I later had a great experience when I proposed to bring one of\nour iPad robots to the student career fair Gadden at the Gothenburg School of\nBusiness, Economies and Law. I saw this as a great opportunity where the\ngraduates out in the world could move around using the iPad robot and share\ntheir experience about our Global Graduate Program remotely, to the students, right\nfrom the reality. To be honest, I wasn\u2019t sure how the idea was going to be\nreceived, but I was so happy when I got a lot of positive feedback and great\nencouragement from many of my colleagues. Together, we prepared everything, and\nthe other graduates also made an effort to support. Such an energizing\nexperience. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

With this,\nI hope you have got some insights into the world as a global graduate in SKF. I\nhope you enjoyed the reading and I wish you a nice time ahead!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hello all, Welcome to my blog post! I am currently situated at the SKF headquarter in Gothenburg, Sweden and I just had a very inspiring day in the factory in Gothenburg. However, I would like to start with introducing myself and giving you some insights from my first time at SKF as a global graduate. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":246,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[575],"tags":[659,658,7,657,655,656],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.traineebloggen.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7400"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.traineebloggen.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.traineebloggen.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.traineebloggen.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/246"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.traineebloggen.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.traineebloggen.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7413,"href":"https:\/\/www.traineebloggen.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7400\/revisions\/7413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.traineebloggen.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.traineebloggen.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.traineebloggen.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}