1. Describe your role in your OJT company. What were your responsibilities?

How did you feel about doing

that kind of work?

My role was as a Document Management Developer where I was tasked to create a few systems for
the easier use of the department Document Management System by the department employees as well as a
few other miscellaneous tasks such as easier access to supplier information and easier materials and labor
costs estimation.

It was a challenging experience for me because I had to learn a whole new language on my own. I
had to use Visual Basic for Applications in developing the systems because the department only wanted
them to be in Microsoft Excel to decrease the likelihood that the intended users (the department employees)
would have a hard time using the applications.

2. Were you able to apply concepts you learned in school? Which ones?

Yes. Seeing that my role in the company was to not only develop the systems but also design them,
I had to apply all of the steps in the Software Development Life Cycle. Systems analysis and design concepts
were applied when I conducted needs assessment and also when I designed the program flow and excel
database. Obviously, programming concepts were applied, although with a language that was different than
what was taught in school. I also had to extensively test the system myself as well as receive feedback from
my supervisor and the other employees who would be using the systems. Lastly, I had to make detailed
system documentation reports that not only described the systems but also provided program flow diagrams
for specific tasks that could be done within the system.

3. What is something you did in OJT that you are proud of?

I was mainly tasked with creating a document indexing system to complement the department's
existing Document Management System. I had spent the bulk of my OJT hours working on that single project.
When I had finished the entire system, including testing and documentation, my supervisor presented the
system in their next department meeting. He had wanted that I would present it instead but I was not to be
allowed during the meeting since many issues that were sensitive to the company would be discussed. After
he had delivered his presentation, the Vice President for Technology and Engineering (my supervisor's boss)
himself was so pleased with the system that he went up to the presentation computer to try it out for
himself. The other employees were also impressed with the work put into the system that right after the
meeting, all of them approached me in my workstation and kept joking around that they should hire me right
then and there.

That firsthand experience of end-user satisfaction at their initial exposure to the system made me
proud of the work that I had put into that system.

4. Do you think the OJT experience is an important part of your education? Why or why not?

Yes, because it exposes to real-life scenarios where we can put the skills that we’ve acquired to the
actual test. This time around, there are no professors to bail us out. Thus, the OJT experience is a valuable
part of our education because it exposes us to workplace situations that we would only get to experience
when we’ve found jobs after our schooling. Because of this, we more or less already have an idea on how to
tackle similar situations and we will not be left clueless when we come across them when we are already
employed.