Henriette Dumont

Candidate - Office Management

Testimonial

Henriette Dumont

My name is Henriette Dumont, and I’m currently enrolled in the RAC process for the Office Management DEC. I actually work for Champlain College Saint Lambert in the Continuing Education Department, so in a way I was very lucky because I understood well the process, and I was very excited to hear that they would be offering the services for this program.

Well initially of course I was mainly motivated to get the DEC so that I could advance my career. And like many other women I had never completed a DEC, and I finding myself in a position now that I work for a government agency where I can’t even apply on an administrative technician position if I don’t have that technical DEC. So that was my initial motivation.

Once I started attending the seminars, my motivation changed. I found that was not only receiving validation for the skills that I currently have, but that I was improving on them. And I was motivated to keep learning and to keep improving them. I also found that I had a new understanding of my role in the office. And that is really helping me put into place my organizational skills, and it’s helping to tackle any situation that comes along, even if it falls out of the scope of my daily responsibilities.

Well I haven’t been a traditional classroom in a long time, and I was a little bit scared at the beginning to go into the seminars, I didn’t really know what to expect. I’ve always been on the administrative side of it, like making sure that the seminars happened, but I’ve never really been a participant. And so my first one I was very nervous, very uneasy, but the content specialists were wonderful, they really helped to put us at ease, and right away helped us to really, like, situate ourselves in the actual process, and within the evaluation process, and I found myself looking forward to each seminar and also to meeting up again with the new people I’ve met, and to sharing experiences with them, I found that we had a lot to share, a lot of best practices, and the content specialists was, you know, enabling it, really, sometimes, and that was a wonderful part of the seminars as well.

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