.... Before Starting a Business
An entrepreneur seldom has defined duties in the enterprise. At an early stage, from cleaning out after all the employees leave, to attend executive meetings with prospective clients, an entrepreneur wears several hats to get the company on to the track of success.
Though some of the early stage work in the enterprise may seem very trivial and unimportant, an entrepreneur must have a good amount of experience in every kind of job he is about to face in his startup. Business Insider compiles a list of jobs that every entrepreneur should do before starting his business.
Here are the essential pre startup jobs that all aspiring entrepreneurs must take up.
1. Fast Food Service
Quick and efficient service is one of the prime parameters which measure the success of an enterprise. Fast food services like pizza stations and burger joints always concentrate on delivering the quickest possible service in a very conventional yet innovative way. Entrepreneurs may have a lot to learn from these joints about the delegation of work, effective use of technology and importance of working against a deadline. Superficially, the job might look very easy and trivial, but it subconsciously trains the entrepreneur to be punctual and always on the toes.
2. Sales
A greater fraction of the new age entrepreneurs come from a technical background and barely carry any knowledge of the marketing and sales departments. Well to face the hard truth of life, developing and designing the product is not enough, the entrepreneur must know to market the product and sell it as well. Hence, a sales job before starting the company is a must. Sell a small thing or sell anything for that matter, what the job does is that it takes the individual way away from the initial shyness of communication and hesitation.
3. Manual Labor
It is very wisely said that tough places breed tough people. Entrepreneurship brings a great deal of physical and mental imbalance and the entrepreneur must be ready to deal with all that comes on his way to success. Work at a construction site, work in a farm or anything that challenges you physically. The work that makes you tough prepares you for all the adversities and hurdles of your career and hones you to be able to handle any kind of pressure.
4. Customer service
The best entrepreneur is the one who understands the customer well. The customer service job makes an aspiring entrepreneur intimate with all the stereotypical issues faced by customer and moreover understand the way they think and use a particular product. Jobs like store clerks, cashiers and customer service representatives are the best places to start getting the training to understand customers.
5. Baby Sitting
The mention of this job might raise some skeptical eyebrows but, yes it is one of the best fields to start understanding employees, customers, clients and the details of human behavior for that matter. It is easy to handle people when they are happy but it can be a tough job to handle them when they are irate. And most of the human being act childishly when they are upset or irritated. Hence, to start managing the tantrums of the kids can be a great start towards achieving excellent HR management skills.
Courtesy: SiliconIndia
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