My current job and use of different digital tools

I work in the finance industry at a bank. I work with wealthy individuals and my job is to act as their contact person at the bank. The main focus of my work is to provide investment solutions. I have held several positions during my short career, but I have been comfortable in my current role for about 3 years. In addition to investments, I am responsible for all banking services for my clients. Technology plays a significant role in my job, as my work is conducted through a computer. I have the support of our website, and I could almost say that the whole internet is a resource for me. Some of my main tools include Teams, YouTube, and our own intranet site. YouTube may sound strange, but it is a great help to me. This is because we produce videos there for both staff and customer use. You can find market reviews and summaries, for example, of companies’ earnings reports.

Tools of Social Media

ChatGPT:

I could make much greater use of artificial intelligence in my work. Our company has its own AI available for staff, which learns and evolves continuously. I could utilize AI, for example, for content creation and text formatting. With the help of AI, I could also quickly and easily find solutions to questions, of course to support my own opinions. However, AI is still in a developmental stage, so one should not rely on it completely. The user has the responsibility to ensure the quality of the text.

LinkedIn:

Through LinkedIn, I could participate in discussions about markets or other current issues, for example. However, LinkedIn may not be suitable for my work in other ways, as I couldn’t discuss work matters in detail there. It is suitable for discussions, and it’s easy to find people from the same or different fields. Sharing experiences is easy there, and finding interesting articles is also straightforward.

Miro:

I hadn’t heard of Miro before. I found it in a listing. It seems to be a very promising website. With this, my team could plan projects and work on shared tasks. Apparently, it makes it easy to design and visualize strategies. In my job, I could use this tool for creating and visualizing an investment strategy, for example.

TikTok:

Many of the applications on the list are good tools for marketing, such as TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram. Although I don’t work in marketing in my role, our staff in marketing operates in the aforementioned channels. For instance, TikTok is a very easy platform to inform younger people about banking matters. The videos made for it are created according to the current trends and are not boringly made at all. This way, young people are encouraged to watch those videos. To reach people and customers, you need to operate where they are. Digitalization has enabled quick access to and dissemination of information. It is, of course, the reader’s responsibility to ensure the reliability of the information.

DeepL:

Here’s the translation of your text into English:

This DeepL website is apparently for making translations. The site seems helpful, as it allows users to translate text or translate files into another language. Although my English skills are good, I sometimes come across strange words that I may not know. I haven’t used this website before, but if it is more reliable than, for example, Google Translate, then it could definitely be a tool I would use. I should bookmark this site. In particular, the ability to translate files into another language seems like a very good feature.

Thoughts on social media, elements of successful use of digital application and self evaluation

Social media, just like digitalization, has both its good and bad sides. Social media has greatly changed our lives. Personally, I like it because it makes it easy to stay in touch with friends and see what they are doing in their lives. However, social media is not always what it seems; people share highlights of their lives, and this can create pressure for some as they compare their own lives to others’. Another significant downside of social media is that bullying has become easier, and it has indeed become more common. It is much easier to say hurtful things from behind an anonymous account than to do so face-to-face. For this reason, parents and everyone else have a big responsibility to teach good manners for behaving online.

The core of a good application is ease of use. Often, the simplest applications are the most popular. A good and successful application must provide some benefit to its user. Facebook makes it easy to connect and talk to people, while TikTok allows users to entertain themselves with fun videos. Throughout my life, there have been many trending applications that eventually fell out of use. I remember a popular app called Periscope, where people could livestream videos of themselves, and others would visit to engage in discussions. However, its popularity quickly waned, and the app was ultimately shut down. I’m not entirely sure why; perhaps it wasn’t further developed. A successful and popular app continually updates and evolves; I remember what Facebook looked like 8 years ago compared to what it looks like now.

This course was very interesting. It allowed me to reflect on technology, its development, and its pros and cons. Technology has enabled many new things in the workplace, and nowadays it is almost a requirement for companies to operate online to succeed. Few companies function without websites, for example. If I encounter an unknown company, I usually search for them online to learn more about them. In technology and social media, it is important to be critical and to understand reliability.