Why you need Internet at/to work !
I could talk and talk about that subject, be boring, and even incorrect, the best way to explain you why it is so important is to give you a bit of my humble experience !
First step is to find a job, and Internet appeared to be the best way to find it. First because it allows you to send/keep all the information about you, an E-CVfor instance, a small presentation or even a blog. Second because you can find plenty of jobs, by searching on websites, chatting with people, contacting organisations. Internet is now the first tool to get a job or an internship. Third because the company will probably ask you in the first place to send an email with your CV and a letter. Imagine if you don’t have any way to contact them but calling them and sending them a letter ! I’m not saying that you won’t get a job, but it will certainly be harder.
As you got your job, and you work in a company, no need to tell you that you’ll be ALL THE TIME on the web. I worked for TF1 Channel, for my first internship ans I realized why I couldn’t afford to stay even a day without being connected. We could say that there’s two way to use it.
- With the “out world”, all the people I was working with, and with who I had to correspond in different manners. Calling someone is a good way to get in contact, but sending an email is quick, precise and doesn’t bother the other one if he’s busy. As I was working with journalists I discovered that the first step of our relations was built on the emails we were sending to each other. As I began to know them good, and send them lots of emails, the phone calls were not so hard to make because they knew who I was. Finally, our websites (some public, some dedicated to the journalists) helped everyone to get a clear information on our programs without calling us. It appeared to be really important also because I had to make lots of research on precise subjects. The use of the Internet accelerated the research and I could get access to many information just by surfing on different websites. I gathered a big amount of information in a short period of time.
- Inside the company, because many of the people I was working with were not in my office. As TF1 is the same company than Eurosport, I was working a lot with them during the European soccer tournament 2008. But it took a long time to meet them and discuss about precise subjects. Connected all the time, we could debate it from our offices. Moreover, TF1 Intern communication system is one of the best : some people I was working with created many intern websites to keep always posted on the meetings to come, the last ones, the programs to be broadcasted, or even what the others were working on. Those many tools have been a real help during my internship, and as I was leaving the company, they were creating some other tools to develop a more and more accurate communication system inside the company.
It is not even possible to work without the web nowadays for the reasons I’ve told you about, but for many others….
