post-doctoral fellow

nurse practitioner

custodian

research specialist

prep cook

University of Missouri

Gather, organize, and summarize information requested by supervisor; ensure accuracy of data/information requested.
Use a personal computer to develop/modify working files, select and extract data, and design reporting formats to present information.
Process and sign requisitions, vouchers, and documents (for director or under own signature); ensure they are approved/distributed in a timely manner; evaluate requests using own knowledge of appropriate purchase/expenditures to be made.
Review/approve requests for services such as printing, building or equipment maintenance, or duplicating services.
Prepare graphs/charts, documents, and/or presentations to aid supervisor with departmental reports.
Observe, evaluate, and record employees’ job performance against established standards; provide information performance evaluation.
Evaluate qualifications of applicants for office positions using interview techniques and personal knowledge of the job requirements; assist supervisor in determining which applicant(s) are best qualified.
Select and schedule meeting facilities, equipment, and meals for conferences/meetings.
Respond to internal/external requests (salary surveys, federal forms, investment forms, budget appropriation worksheets).
Communicate with appropriate technical representatives concerning software/hardware malfunction.
Teach/demonstrate/give directions to new employees for performing specified tasks. 
Assign work to office support staff in order to complete assignments in a timely manner.
Schedule appointments/conferences for departmental faculty and staff members.
Originate and/or type correspondence, reports, and other materials; provide final copy for review and signature.
Record/type and distribute minutes of departmental meetings to all participants.
Greet and assist office visitors.
Calculate/record vacation and sick leave accrual and usage for departmental staff.
Respond to customer and department inquiries.
Answer departmental phone, route calls to appropriate person(s), and answer routine office inquiries.
Order supplies and equipment from outside vendors and University departments; maintain adequate stock of supplies and equipment.

A typical work day:

-As a Wellness Coordinator in the UM System a typical work day depends the time of the year and day of the week.
The fall months were dedicated tp flu clinics.  During the Spring we had Cholesterol Clinics and the Summers were typically our planning months.  Coinciding with coordinating our wellness events I was responsible for:
-Providing individual support or counseling in general wellness or nutrition.
-Track attendance, participation, or performance data related to wellness events.
 -Prepare or implement budgets and strategic, operational, purchasing, or maintenance plans.
-Develop marketing campaigns to promote a healthy lifestyle or participation in fitness and wellness programs.

What I learned:

-Strong custoner service skills
-Congenial and strong and enthusiastic contributor to team goals 
-Knowledge of office practices and procedures
-Excellent analytical, organizational and communication skills
-Ability to prioritize and handle multiple tasks in a challenging environment

Management:

-Be clear and concise about direction, mission, and goals
-Provides credible leadership
-Authoritative
-Participates and coordinates in projects
-Develpos employees

Co-Workers:

-Works well together using everones strengths and weaknesses
-Motivated
-Worked well with each other to achieve our goals
-Shared ideas and strategies 

Hardest part of my job:

-Finding a way to communicate our program, projects, and goals to a to every individual in the UM System.

Most Enjoyable part of my job:

-Helping to improvide the lives of individuals and helping to provide a healthy working enviroment on a daily basis.

The University of Missouri (UoM) is a shining example of a university unwilling to change in the face of the future of education. 
Other schools have changed and updated their ways of education and employee support. Sadly the UoM is stuck in the past. From time to time, new employees have amazing ideas that are often stolen by upper management, mis-managed, then abandoned. If something doesn't offer immediate overwhelming success, it's a failure and dropped no matter the cost it took to implement.  
Pay is low compared to other schools, and there is almost no job culture to speak of. If you want to experience working for a university in the 1980's, you still can! When someone leaves, you can almost guarantee their position won't be staffed. They will close the position to save money, and force other employees to pick up the slack. If you're lucky you'll get a 1-2% raise, unless pay is frozen. 

There's 2 main cons with the University of Missouri:
1. Spineless management; you are essentially on your own with little information or support from management. Often what management says in a meeting, and what is written in an email are 2 entirely different things, just hope you're not the one being thrown under the bus.

2. Poor communication; often emails will need to be taken apart and decoded to find the real information. Or, just go to the office of the person that sent the email. They will tell you "what's going on" since it's not in writing any longer.

Overall, they have the potential to be so much better, however lack decent middle management to drive and support faculty and staff. 

I was offered a promotion and since I have taken this promotion it seems as I signed up to fail with the way that the structure is going how do you have open positions and freeze them and now what I thought was an opportunity to grow has now turned into a punishment. They say you need coaching the leadership class are awsome but hands on training couldn’t be consistent due to higher management decisions to run on no support. How do we gets so worried about budgets that we risk the safety of our patients being sure the appropriate items are available.How do you create a problem and then use it to remove people.From years of working at this facility I have never seen the advancement in this department by any other previous administration to get out with you and help plus development of growth and know the department specifically. Every one of the past was never qualified had no prior training and yet you get one that knows it and they’re word is not valid to bring us out of the created mess all that was needed was staff. I have never seen this type of foolishness which makes me feel like what can I offer if they are not looking for growth. I should have not listened to my leader cause they been removed and I have to protect myself cause I started in march as a new leader  sorry to think is it because we are of another culture with no training in their eyes why would you do this and say we failed the facility. It is fearful and heartbreaking. I was able to get new techs to work with surgery to understand why our job is important now we may be losing that idea or someone else will take it.

What I liked about this position was that I learned new skills which included:

Developing, coordinating and maintaining programs within the community, and aspires to provide a positive intellectual, emotional and social living environment for ALL students/residents. Provided support, encouragement, and leadership to his/her community. Was available to his/her residents and empower his/her residents to grow and develop as good citizens. Helped to facilitate a positive living and academic environment. This is accomplished by the following:
• Build relationships with the residents in the community
• Assist residents in developing relationships with each other
• Develop residents through programming efforts in relation to the Mansion Hill Programming model.
• Held residents accountable for their behavior
• Educated residents on the policies and procedures of Residential Life
• Promoted student involvement
• Role model positive attitudes and behaviors
• Helped to facilitate an environment that allows students to meet their academic goals
• Provided opportunities for residents to look at the world from different perspectives
• Served as a resource
• Provided helping skills for residents in need The Community Advisors are also responsible for the following administrative tasks:
• Check-in and check-out of residents
• Kept track of resident occupancy
• Documented policy violations
• Reported maintenance and facility concerns and conducting Health and Safety Inspections
• Duty responsibility and working office hours in the mansion hill central housing office

I chose to work at Domundo's, because I was most often hanging out in the LGBT Center downstairs anyway, so the location was really convenient, and I did appreciate the free lunches. However, after COVID hit, moving all my classes online and making the Center too unsafe to remain open almost entirely through 2020, I found it incredibly difficult to justify paying $15/week on parking, on top of the emotional and mental load. 

Student workers were chronically undertrained because the supervisors were stretched so thin across two or three different shops, and upper management was more concerned with having all the shops open than having fewer shops open running optimally. My coworkers and supervisors were easily the only things keeping me from outright quitting in September, but after reckoning with the constant, droning noises of the fan system and grills (thanks, undiagnosed ADHD); everything being metaphorically and occasionally literally on fire, and otherwise meager benefits, I ended up quitting to save my mental health and my grades.

If you're a NT Mizzou student who just needs some help with gas, it works fine. I just got tired of my weekly work-related breakdowns.

My studies at the University of Missouri-Columbia involved multi-step synthesis, handling air sensitive reagents, and various kinds of purification methods allowing me to hone my skills in synthetic organic chemistry. During my PhD, I have discovered and developed several new reactions and used multiple analytical techniques such as NMR, IR, and HPLC to interpret data and identify and characterize many new compounds. I have utilized literature precedent to enhance results through optimization to produce five new synthetic methodology projects. I have a strong history of publications and a keen aptitude for learning new software and technologies. I am able to work on multiple projects simultaneously and have learned various techniques required of a professional synthetic chemist. Reading journal articles and advanced organic chemistry books keep me up to date on the latest advancements and methods in the field. 

In addition, I also worked in GVK Bioscience for Wyeth Pharmaceutical Inc. USA in Hyderabad, India for two years. Industrial experience has given me the opportunity to learn experimental skills and to explore synthetic organic chemistry in addition to “how to plan and execute the reactions”.

Oh boy, where to start.

First off, the job is draining. You'll hear dozens of depressing tales of medical problems, financial problems, etc., and the company does, to their credit, try to help people in dire straights.

Unless you're middle class, that is.

The management here was a joke. I technically worked for/with two different companies under the same roof, and had a manager from each branch, and they were the coldest, most unfeeling managers I've ever had. I had known medical issues, and I was missing a lot of work because of it. I ONLY went to MU medical facilities, so the issues were well documented. They don't care. They have a firm set number of times you're allowed to ever be sick. Any more and you're fired. Pretty weird behavior for a hospital.

There are constant stressful updates to the systems, laws, etc. as well. That can't really be helped at the organization's level, but they don't do much to get you ready for it, aside from the month of listening to another agent do calls. Oh, and they think the pay is awesome, but for what you deal with and the way I was treated, I gotta say, it's not worth it.

This is a grant funded program that teaches nutrition to schools that is an Extension of the University/ This position gets University benefits but you are not compensated enough to take advantage of the great benefits. This department is outdated as far as how long it takes to update things such as their website and accurate nutrition information. You are required to use your personal cell phone and your personal vehicle for work. If your are in an accident in your personal vehicle while working you are not covered under the company's insurance for damages to your vehicle. Sometimes it seems as if upper management has no knowledge of this department when trying to communicate with them. You get a stipend of hour to use your personal cell phone and a mileage reimbursement for gas. A typical day consist of you teaching between 1-3 classes per day that are at least an hour long then planning for the next class and completing paperwork and also recruiting your own classes in between time.

Most notably, in my experience, HR and management do not support staff in the ways that they should. When staff enforce policies and protocols (that are decided upon by management) with patients, that should be supported by management. However, it often happens that a patient becomes upset with the enforcement of policy/protocol, and management will undermine the staff and give the patient what they want. This not only disempowers staff, but it typically creates more work for them because it results in care tasks being expedited that didn't need to be or results in appointments being overbooked.

Additionally, I have experienced HR mishandling s*xual harassment claims, telling the complainant that they "should have tried to handle it themselves before escalating it to HR". How is that appropriate? Do you know what that trauma staff person has been through? Even if the situation turns out to be innocuous, their experiences may not make it easy for them to address these concerns on their own. That is a very unprofessional recommendation to make.

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