Life at GE : Careers : GE
I'm currently located in Paris, France, supporting a startup initiative to develop a modern urban transit and passenger rail solution. It's hard to top being part of such an exciting initiative in a great city like Paris!
In a single word: "diversity." Diversity in all areas, including industries, locations and people, with their unique backgrounds and perspectives.
I'll start by saying that if you feel like you're fully prepared for a role, it's probably not a big enough stretch. One thing you can expect in GE is change, which is often difficult to prepare for. It's remarkable that a company of our size con constantly reinvent itself the way we do. But if you build up enough experience in managing, or even creating positive change, you'll succeed.
Replacing our global intranet portal with new technology, infrastructure, and a content management system. The challenge was to coordinate activities globally across every GE business for a site used by 500,000 people. It was a great opportunity to learn the communication needs of the company and deliver a platform that continues to be used several years later.
I had an internship in which I needed to learn how to write in a UNIX scripting language - something I wasn't initially excited about and I'll likely never draw on again. But it taught me a lot about how to quickly and creatively learn something new and deliver a usable solution.
Have enough confidence to take risks and make mistakes, plus enough humility to learn from them. And, above all, always make a clear connection between your work and how it supports the business's goals.
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