Report: my work experience

 Introduction

The goal of this report is to describe and evaluate my six weeks’ experience at the Ministry of Education and to make recommendations for the future.

About the Ministry

The Ministry of Education is one of the most important department of the government. Its leader is the Minister Raúl Figueroa, who has that position since February of this year. The mission of this Ministry is to create policies to assure that the Chilean society could have a good education level.

My work experience

In my first week the people over there only ask me to do things as make coffee, do copies and run errands. I didn’t feel respected at first.

Then I started to participate in work groups, giving my analysis and researching about the issues that concerns to the Ministry. I enjoyed that labor more than the first things that they make me do, so I put all my effort to do a good job. I was so motivated that I didn’t mind being very tired at the end of the day, because I worked 45 hours a week.

At the fourth week, they ask me to do an evaluation to an improving program for rural schools. I did a very complete research and then I make a very good presentation, but nobody of my colleagues was interested. In the fifth week the same thing happened to me.

Finally, in my last week there, I participated in a commission to help the Minister to create a policy to help the teachers with COVID, but I also consider my help useless, because the Minister only heard the President and a group of businessmen.

General comments

I wanted to work in the Ministry because I believe that education is an important matter to society. Unfortunately, my work partners didn’t think like me. They didn’t care about the students or education at all, they were only preoccupied to make money and be seen for the Minister.

Conclusion

I don’t recommend at all to work in the Ministry of Education as the actual government is still in La Moneda, because they don’t care about helping people, but they only want to help themselves and the millionaires.