{"id":47766,"date":"2021-08-16T10:20:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T14:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/en\/the-network\/uncategorized\/growing-with-agf"},"modified":"2024-05-07T15:44:00","modified_gmt":"2024-05-07T19:44:00","slug":"growing-with-agf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/en\/the-network\/human-resources\/growing-with-agf","title":{"rendered":"Growing with AGF"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Waqar Amjad, Production Supervisor at our Scarborough location had an interesting start at AGF a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>He was hired to do a summer job which involved shredding documents, moving boxes, etc. Waqar showed a keen interest in the business and wanted to work in manufacturing. He was then hired full time as a Production Assistant and after showing initiative and taking over multiple responsibilities, was promoted to the role of a Production Supervisor withing one year on the job. Waqar was closely involved with the Fast 80 project in Kitchener and helped to increase production by 40%.<\/p>\n<p>Naveed Aslam, Operations Manager at Scarborough and Waqar&rsquo;s supervisor shares &#8211; &ldquo;Waqar showed enthusiasm to improve himself constantly and hence I grabbed him and started training him. He always came up with good solutions to challenges faced and is a creative thinker. These traits are what helped him grow quickly within the organization&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Always try to learn as much as you can. If you are stuck, ask for help. Always be the person who is ready to help everyone.&rdquo; says Waqar. &ldquo;Also try to have a &ldquo;can do&rdquo; attitude and that would be beneficial for anyone&rsquo;s career growth!<\/p>\n<h3><strong><u>AGF Scarborough &#8211; Making new history<\/u><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Waqar Amjad, Production Supervisor at Scarborough along with 3 team members began working on the night shift on July 26<sup>th<\/sup>, 2021. The team seemed excited and nervous when asked if they were prepared for the new venture. Their happy faces were captured just days before they started on the new shift.<\/p>\n<p>We would like to wish them all the best and hope we can grow the team and reach even greater heights with the night shift!<\/p>\n<p>You want to be part of our great team, see the available positions on <a href=\"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/en\/careers\/job-opportunities\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/en\/careers\/job-opportunities\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Please see below from left to right: Allan Lazona, Larry D. Villas, Dexter Abenoja and Waqar Amjad.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Image_equipe_Waqar-Copy-1-4.jpg\" style=\"height:250px; width:348px\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Bandeau_version_espanola-Copy-1-43.png\" style=\"height:40px; width:475px\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>Waqar Amjad, Supervisor de producci&oacute;n en Scarborough ya cuenta con una trayectoria digna de menci&oacute;n por su primer a&ntilde;o de trabajo en AGF.<\/p>\n<p>Al inicio, fue contratado para un empleo de verano que consist&iacute;a en triturar documentos, mover cajas, etc. Desde el inicio, Waqar demostr&oacute; un vivo inter&eacute;s en la empresa y expres&oacute; su deseo de trabajar en la fabricaci&oacute;n. M&aacute;s adelante obtuvo un puesto de asistente de producci&oacute;n a tiempo completo. Despu&eacute;s de demostrar tener iniciativa en la f&aacute;brica y de haber desempe&ntilde;ado varias funciones, fue promovido a supervisor de producci&oacute;n despu&eacute;s de solamente algunos meses. Waqar particip&oacute; en el proyecto &ldquo;Fast 80&rdquo; en Kitchener y contribuy&oacute; a incrementar la producci&oacute;n en un 40%.<\/p>\n<p>Naveed Aslam, Director de operaciones en Scarborough, y el supervisor de Waqar comentan: &ldquo;Waqar est&aacute; lleno de entusiasmo; durante toda su capacitaci&oacute;n demostr&oacute; que deseaba mejorarse constantemente. Siempre propuso soluciones creativas frente a los diferentes desaf&iacute;os. Son sus habilidades las que le permitieron crecer r&aacute;pidamente en la empresa.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Waqar comenta: &ldquo;Intenten siempre aprender m&aacute;s. Si enfrentan un desaf&iacute;o, pidan ayuda. Sean siempre la persona dispuesta a ayudar a los dem&aacute;s. Tambi&eacute;n intenten tener una actitud que diga &lsquo;puedo hacerlo&rsquo;, &iexcl;ya que es ben&eacute;fico para todos los que deseen ascender en una empresa!&rdquo;<\/p>\n<h3><strong><u>AGF Scarborough &ndash; Continuaci&oacute;n de la historia<\/u><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Waqar Amjad y otros tres miembros del equipo comenzaron a trabajar en el turno de la noche el 26 de julio de 2021. El equipo parec&iacute;a emocionado y nervioso cuando le preguntamos si estaba listo para esta nueva aventura.<\/p>\n<p>Les deseamos lo mejor y esperamos poder desarrollar el equipo &iexcl;y alcanzar niveles todav&iacute;a m&aacute;s elevados con el turno de la noche!<\/p>\n<p>&iquest;Desea formar parte de nuestro gran equipo? Consulte los puestos disponibles en <a href=\"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/fr\/carrieres\/emplois\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/fr\/carrieres\/emplois\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A continuaci&oacute;n, de izquierda a derecha: Allan Lazona, Larry D. Villas, Dexter Abenoja y Waqar Amjad.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Waqar Amjad, Production Supervisor at our Scarborough location had an interesting start at AGF a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":59596,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[225],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-human-resources"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47766"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59603,"href":"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47766\/revisions\/59603"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}