4.2 • 5 Ratings
🗓️ 19 June 2023
⏱️ 43 minutes
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0:00.0 | The Thank you. Hi, I'm Waseem Malik. I'm the Chief Claims Officer at Aviva and this is my duvet flip. |
1:19.6 | Over to you, Jack. How are we doing today? I'm really good. I'm a little bit warm after the walkover. |
1:24.3 | What beautiful weather. Oh, it's hot. And I just wear black and it's really hot. |
1:28.8 | And I'm trying to avoid the sun, but you can't in this weather. You really can't. So I want to |
1:34.3 | start here because I always start on this first question because we have young people tuning in |
1:39.5 | from all walks of life, all backgrounds, some will be in work, some won't be in work. We also have |
1:44.8 | LinkedIn tuning in, so that could be anyone from all businesses or walks of life. What was your |
1:50.1 | first job? What did that job teach you? And what do you wish you knew about that job before you |
1:56.1 | started it that you can pass on to young people? Great question. So my first job, I started working as |
2:03.3 | part-time for MNS. I was in one of their food stores. I was a student at the time and I wanted to |
2:09.6 | help pay my way through university. I don't come from a very privileged background. So actually it was |
2:14.8 | the thing that I could do to help my parents out a little bit as well. |
2:18.8 | So what did I learn? Actually, I still remember the moment. When I got the job in the interview, |
2:24.8 | they said to me, you've got a lovely smile. And I thought, that was a bit of a strange thing to |
2:29.0 | pick up on, but I'll take it. I got the job. And actually, the most important thing was, |
2:33.2 | their whole ethos was, how do we delight customers? |
2:36.1 | Because M&S wanted to set themselves out from everyone else by really focusing on customer service. |
2:42.5 | So actually, my first job, I saw that come to life and I saw how you work as part of a team |
2:47.1 | to deliver that exceptional customer service. |
2:49.9 | And was that the first time that someone |
2:52.8 | said to you, you have a lovely smile? And then you realise that actually that could be translated |
2:57.2 | into the workplace? Absolutely, yeah, because actually, yeah, your friends say it or whatever, |
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