Winston Gordon

Background

About Winston Gordon

Over the past six years, I've engaged in numerous personal and professional development opportunities, including nine jobs and three internships. I gained valuable skills, such as management, communication, and resourcefulness, among many others. Each additional experience that requires different skills gives me the opportunity to do one of two things: Refine them, and therefore make them more useful to that new situation and system, or acquire them, learn how to use them, and investigate ways that the new skill can help me succeed in other areas or situations. This is the basis of how I manage my personal and professional life. Since so many young people are earning degrees these days, employers must overlook many applicants and pinpoint the only few they believe will not only go above and beyond their expectations, but provide a longevity of successful work within their organization. This is especially true in any position that requires leadership skills, specifically employee and client management. How can you show an employer that you will do this? Experiences, education, references, activities. Those help, but what I want employers to know is what kind of person I am, how I operate daily personal and professional life, and why THOSE two things will make me successful. There are several integral ideas/values that shape the system of behavior I operate my life by- Get better every day. If you're not getting better you're getting worse- Operate life with a system. Not a plan, not ideas. Exceptional leaders have systems- Always do more. Go above and beyond, but know your limits- Take your priorities seriously. Don't let life's pleasures OR misfortunes guide you away from this- Always be courteous. Even if undeserved, do your absolute best to make every situation you're in better for yourself and everyone involved.