In my experience, I have always received very inadequate training. Thus, I often do not even know where to start for the first few days. Taiwanese employers will always tell you to ask questions. It’s difficult to ask questions when you do not even know where to start. It is only after spending a few days analyzing the nature of the job that I know how and what to learn. What are your experiences with job training here?
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Here’s the classroom, here’s the books, here’s the kids. One week later: Here’s everything you’re doing wrong.
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Exactly this.
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no training in Taiwan, and if its any comfort also very little overseas.
in my experience few companies have a well thought of training program for new employees, Taiwan is not different.
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They always to tell the new employee to ask questions. It’s hard to know what questions to ask if the new employee isn’t even given any new guidelines.
ask your boss what he thinks is most urgent, or where he recommends that you start, and do that first.
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Oh, there are schools that do training. I haven’t seen one do it well yet. It’s usually an annoyance and I always avoided schools that had extended training.
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that’s what I did. The problem is that the materials given to me don’t really help with understanding at all. I had to devise my own approach to learning the job.
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hahahahahahahahahaha
That was a good one.
Because, is it a joke, right?
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When i started working here as an engineer, my coworkers tried best to teach me but firstly i realised most engineers here lacks the ability of logic and just follow rules and SOPs to get things done . If you ask something thats different, they dont know how to answer. Secondly myh coworkers couldnt even speak good english so they cant really explain stuff to me. So i just learned all by myself just by observing what everyone is doing.
But i am sure there are places that gives good adequate training. I work in a very local company with no foreigners other than me
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If i failed, i was fired. Piss poor training. And yet, the fastest way to train is by being hungry. never made big mistakes twice. I sure hope doctors arent hired like this.
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In a teaching scenario it’s exactly the same with teacher and student. If teachers only expected students to ask questions about what they do not yet understand…well…I guess i wouldnt recomend the school to other parents.
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A professor I once had told me the following:
“Whenever a person is delivering a presentation in front of an audience and he/she does not get any questions, feedback, concerns, it almost always means that the person did not communicate anything well to the audience. The presenter only communicated the lack of ability to effectively convey information.”
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In Taiwan training is them showing you how company specific systems (if any) work, but apart from that, training is being gaslighted every minute you are on the clock. Think of working in Taiwan as trading your mental health for paycheck.
In the US, at least at Walmart training is spending about 3 work days (that they have to pay for) on some computer training thing, then being told afterwards to ignore everything on that computer.
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Even though you took everything out of the teaching manuals they gave you. 
my manager just told me to start learning about the company’s product lineup from the files I’m currently proofreading. LOL
I realized the only way to gain an understanding of the technology is start by understanding every relevant term. This then allows you to piece things together and understand how the product works.
When I said books I meant textbooks. I think I only once had anything like a manual.