A sound education is a key to any great career. Whether it’s business or architecture training, to excel at a career in your chosen field, you need the fundamental skills and the necessary technical knowledge to be able to operate at a professional level. However, as we move further into the 21st century, it’s becoming more and more necessary for graduates to be launched into the world of business with at least a fundamental idea of the corporate world.
There are a certain attitude and language that is unique to the corporate world, which is important for graduates to understand to maximize their career potential. So why has it become so integral to learn how to walk the walk and talk the talk of corporate lingo before entering into the world of business?
Here are just a few reasons:
Consistency
Increasingly, businesses are adopting set practices and lingo that are pretty much uniform. From using acronyms like “HR” and “ROI,” to adopting words like “bandwidth” to refer to availability to do work, the lingo of businesses can get pretty complex. Schools are starting to teach this kind of thing because it gives new graduates a standard knowledge set that can be applied anywhere – it’s uniform. Learning the corporate jargon means you won’t be surprised when you step foot into an office and people start throwing around these terms – in fact, you’ll be prepared to sling some terms of your own right back.
Standards
While there are a few cutting-edge and more “artistically minded” businesses that are eschewing the age-old traditions of suit-and-tie and prim-and-proper, it’s still largely the standard in business. Knowing these practices and knowing what’s acceptable language, dress and attitude in an office setting are paramount to success. If you walk into an insurance firm calling people “dude,” and telling them to “chill out,” well there’s a pretty good chance you’ll be looking for a new job.
A Leg Up
Training for a variety of corporate settings means that you’ll have an advantage over other prospective employees. If an employer interviews two candidates: one who can tell the difference between a CEO and a CFO, and one who shows up in a t-shirt and doesn’t know what a T4 is, who do you think is going to get the job? Practical skills are important, but a thorough knowledge of standard corporate practices is what will give you the edge.
Improved Performance Through Confidence
While it may seem like little more than a convention and a necessary evil, corporate industry training can actually help boost your self-confidence and ensure that your performance is top notch. Because you’ll feel comfortable performing all of the tasks required of you and communicating in a way that’s consistent with any business environment, you won’t be hesitant or worried about making mistakes.
So, while corporate industry training can seem a bit superfluous compared to the practical, industry-focused knowledge you’re learning in your engineering training or computer-aided design courses, the benefits of an intricate knowledge of the corporate world will give you the confidence and preparation to far surpass the expectations of employers.
