10 departments you’ll find at work –
Introduction 👋
It can be quite scary starting a job. 😨
There are so many new people to meet – so many departments and different job titles. 👩💼💼
But what do these departments actually do?🤷♀️
Why are they important?
Here are 10 common departments that you’ll probably come across in a new job!
1. Executive Team 👑
The executive team are the group of people that manage and lead the organization. 👑Members of the team can include the:
- CEO – Chief Executive Officer👩💼(in charge of overall organisation)
- CFO – Chief Financial Officer 🕺💰 (in charge of finance)
- COO – Chief Operating Officer 🦸♀️ (in charge of day-to-day work/operations)
- CISO – Chief Information Security Officer 🕵️♀️ (in charge of security)
- and other “executives”.
The executive team is responsible for making decisions about the company’s overall direction and management. 🛣️
They are also in charge of overseeing day-to-day work as well as managing money, people, and things the organisation owns. 💸🧑🤝🧑🏢
2. Marketing 🔊
Usually every job or organisation has something to offer people. 🤝
Organisations can offer people:
- Services e.g. hairdressing is a service, 💇♀️ or
- a product for someone to buy e.g. buying a hairbrush from a shop 🪥
Marketing teams are responsible for advertising/promoting the organisation and what services/products they offer. 🔊✨
They are also in charge of choosing what ways to promote an organisation.
They could promote the organisation using things like:
- Social media 📱
- TV advertising 📺
- Radio advertising 📻
- Print e.g. leaflets, newspaper articles 📰
- Influencer marketing (using influencers to promote the business) 💃🤳
3. Sales 💵
A sales team is a group of people who are in charge of selling products or services. 👩💼🤝💸
The sales team all work together to reach the same goal – to sell as many products as possible. 🏆💵
Sales teams are an important part of any organisation because they help them grow, support more customers, and hopefully make more money!💰💸
4. Procurement 🛍️
Have you ever wanted to do shopping for a living? 🛍️🛒
This is what procurement teams do! 😎💳
Procurement teams are responsible for buying products and services for an organization. They are usually in charge of:
- Deciding who to buy from🤔💰
- Negotiating prices 🤝
- Deciding what to buy 💸
- Arranging contracts 📜
- Deciding how much to spend 💳
- Making sure that they buy really good quality things 🔎
5. Human Resources (HR) 💞
Human resources (HR) teams look after the humans in organisations. 🧑🤝🧑
They help with things like:
- advertising new jobs and recruiting people for them 🔊
- deciding who gets job offers for a new job 🤝
- training and developing people 🏆
- overseeing new staff 👋
- reviewing employee pay💸
- managing staff when they leave their job 🚪
- advising on relationship difficulties in teams 💣
- supporting wellbeing for staff 💞
- deciding what benefits employees get like holidays and flexible working hours 🏖️
6. Tech Support 💻
These days pretty much every workplace uses technology 📱💻⚙️
The more we rely on technology for work, the more we rely on tech support teams. 👩💻
Tech support teams are responsible for things like:
- Helping staff with their computers 📞
- Setting up technology like Wi-Fi, computers, and phones for you to use 📶
- Fixing tech issues 🔧
- Teaching people how to use technology 👩🏫
- Deciding what technology everyone in the organisation uses 🤔
- Making sure technology runs smoothly 🧈
7. Finance/Payroll 🧾
Who wants to be in charge of the money??👸💸
Finance teams are responsible things like:
- making sure that the organisation has enough money to function and grow. 🌱⚙️
- keeping track of how much money the company has 🕵️♀️
- finding ways to increase the money the organisation has 📈
- trying to predict how much money the organisation will have in the future 🔮
- finding ways for the organisation to save money 📉
8. Legal 👩⚖️
There are sooo many different laws that organisations have to follow 📜🛤️
Legal teams are responsible for things like:
- giving advice about legal issues 💁♀️
- making sure that the company is following the law 🛤️
- Writing contracts, agreements, and other legal documents ✍️
- Negotiating contracts with customers or people selling things to the organisation🤝
- Staying up-to-date on the latest laws ⚖️📰
9. Information Security 🕵️♀️
Information is sooo valuable to organisations, so they need to protect it 💪🦸♀️
Security teams are responsible for protecting companies from people doing things like:
- accessing secret information without permission 👀📄
- using secret information for bad things 🦹♀️
- telling other people secret information without permission 😏💬
- disrupting the business e.g. the website getting hacked 😈💣
- changing/modifying information without permission ✍️🤫
- destroying information without permission 🔥📜
Information security teams protect the business by doing things like:
- securing office buildings and computer systems 🏢🔒
- tracking where important information is stored 🔎👀
- creating rules for employees to follow to protect information 📜✍️
- paying “ethical hackers” to try and hack into the company (so they can learn where they might be vulnerable) 👩💻😎
- monitoring and scanning computer systems for any vulnerabilities 🔎🕵️♀️
- making sure that the company follows data protection laws 🧑⚖️🔏
- writing “disaster recovery” plans to follow in case of an emergency 🚒🌪️
- teaching employees how to keep information safe 🔐🤫
10. Facilities/Office Management 🏢
Offices don’t look after themselves! 🏢
Facilities teams are responsible for providing offices with things like:
- Maintenance/repairs 👩🔧💡
- equipment and office supplies 🖋️🖇️📄🧻
- furniture 🪑🛋️
- grounds/gardens ⛲🌳
- reception 👩💼
- cleaning 🧹🧽
- water 💦
- food services 🍌🍎
- security guards💂♀️
Conclusion 👍
So that’s it!
10 departments you can find at work are:
- Executive Team 👑
- Marketing 🔊
- Sales 💵
- Procurement 🛍️
- Human Resources (HR) 💞
- Tech Support 💻
- Finance/Payroll 🧾
- Legal 👩⚖️
- Information Security 🕵️♀️
- Facilities/Office Management 🏢
Hopefully you’re feeling more confident about knowing what departments there are at work.
If you know any friends or family members who might benefit from learning about different departments, feel free to share it with them! 📱
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