CLIMBING THE CAREER LADDER: SUCCESS ONLY COMES AFTER HARD WORK

Going from the lowest to the highest position, the following workers had to train themselves through many difficulties and challenges.

Nguyen Thi Nhu Y: Not afraid of difficulty

Joining the SG3 family at the end of 1998 and working in the Materials Planning Department, Nhu Y has spent more than 19 years in the Company and has been appointed to many key positions. From an ordering staff, she got promoted to the deputy manager of planning in Binh Phuoc factory and now the manager of the Hiep Binh Phuoc factory. She shared with us that every time she got promoted, she felt a new pressure, especially in the current position. She is now responsible for various tasks, such as workers’ salary, monitoring and supervising the process of order fulfillment and delivery time, or connecting the workers and the departments together.

But above all those difficulties, it is the love of the people in SG3 that has motivated her to keep trying and devoting to the Company. She says that her goal now is to improve the workers’ salary and their quality of life.

When asked about her achievements during the years she’s been working, Ms. Nhu Y was very humble. She just wanted to remind the younger generations that: "When you work in the garment industry, you should understand that the work is very challenging. But you shouldn’t be afraid of difficulty, because the difficulty is a valuable chance to stimulate your critical thinking and accumulate more experience for yourself. If you work hard with passion and discipline, your superiors will see your efforts and consider promotion to help you develop yourself.

Mr. Trinh Van Hoa: Try to learn and change yourself

Trinh Van Hoa's starting point was similar to most of the workers in May SG3. He joined the Company in early 2001 as a pattern worker. He said that when he came in, he never thought that he would get to his current position, or become the leader of any team.

At that time, he was a passionate young man who loved the job and was always willing to help his colleagues. Workers often went back home if they finished their work early, but will enlisted to go but Mr. Hoa, a pattern worker, often stayed in the production area to provide any assistance. He didn’t mind working overtime in the production area, though it was actually not his responsibility.

The good habit helped him to learn about many other production steps and to receive a lot of love from his colleagues. With a strong sense of responsibility, he was a highly sociable and experienced worker, thus earning the trust of the Board of Directors. In just five years, he was promoted to deputy manager of technical support. He has held this position since then. He regularly achieves a congratulatory certificate for his amazing achievements at the factory.

When asked about his secret of work and success, he just laughed simply: "I have never taken part in any formal training, but thanks to the guidance and advice of the senior workers, I have been trying my best to achieve successes. Try to learn to call it a little success. The career path I’ve taken requires a lot of effort and learning is the only way to transform yourself.”

Ms. Nguyen Thi Van: One for all

In 30 years working in the garment industry, Ms. Nguyen Thi Van has been in SG3 Company for 25 years. Nevertheless, her rise to the current position of Manager of Minako Factory was a path full of challenges.

Identifying herself as someone who always likes challenges, she explained that she learned the most when she was put in a difficult situation. In her first years at SG3, she was assigned to manage a team of 50-60 workers. Since then, she has been responsible for more people, from 180 to 350, then 480 and finally, nearly 1,100 people today.

2009 was when she went from a group leader to a factory manager. At that time, her factory had the lowest production results and the Company had to support workers’ salaries for months. As deputy manager of production, in addition to her mandatory tasks, she worked closely with the community of workers here to renovate the factory and put it into stable operation, thus increasing workers’ income and life quality.

In 2015, she was assigned to manage the Minako factory when it was in a serious crisis: low productivity, poor product quality, inadequate export capacity and demotivated workers. What should she do to change? She recalled that she had always been thinking of her life motto, which is “one for all”. When an individual sacrifices for the collective, the collective will surely return the favor for that individual. Those days, she had to closely supervise production, personally give instructions, strongly encourage workers and promptly solve any problems that arose. The factory went back to business and after just two weeks of her working in the new environment, the factory could achieve the Company's target and was rewarded with significant amounts of money. That money was divided equally to the workers to motivate them. The manager herself took it a great motivation for her next journey at work. From more than 300 people in 2016, by now she has been managing nearly 1100 workers. Her biggest concern is that workers can work few hours, yet still receive the same or even higher, and their quality of life should improve steadily. She said that the problem has been solved for 80%, so she will keep trying to make it 100%.

The manager did not take any achievements as her own. She said: "I can be who I am today because the community of workers has helped me, with their sincere love and support." So the work motto also revolves around the collective power: if we can work together and sacrifice for the greater benefits, there is nothing impossible to overcome. That is also what she wants to tell her workers.