What Do Employers Want?

What do employers want?

In a nutshell they want YOU to possess the key skills and attributes they value highest.

Demonstrate them through the course of the interview, and the jobs as good as yours!

And when I say demonstrate, you have to give examples of how you have used these key skills to achieve previous objectives. Using tangible business language to describe the results of your actions. For example, "I used my problem solving skills to smooth a critical client problem, so saving our company the loss of a $450K per annum account"

But what do employers want? Will the job specification give me all the information I need?

I would say most job specs will give you 50 -75% of what the employers is really looking for. It's low for a number of reasons, often the spec is written by someone other than the person who will be responsible for the new role, often boiler-plate job specs are used for consistency and speed.

Also the spec will likely contain the key skills employers look for, as critical skills are hard to overlook. But the less obvious skills and most valued personality traits, are nearly always overlooked.

And discovering these secondary skills and personality traits are your ticket to interview mastery. Because with them you gain the keys to your interviewers logical and emotional drivers, and Job offers that lies beyond.

What do employers want? The answer is no two employers will be looking for exactly the same basket of key skills, and personality attributes. Which is why its so valuable for you to do extra research to flush out these hidden gems.

However with all the research that has been done into successful recruiting there are a number of skills and attributes that always come top of any employer pole.

These break down into technical skills sets such as accounting, lawyer, project manager, CEO, and soft skills or personality attributes or traits such as leadership, problem solving, mentoring, listening skills, honesty, creative thinking, the lists go on...

The real secret to acing interviews
is to research and build a clear picture of the unique basket of
technical and soft skills your target employers is really looking for.

Top Skills Employers Look For

What do employers want?- the following is a pole of the top 10 skills employers look for.

• Ability to follow instruction
• Leadership
• Willingness to learn
• Decision making
• Problem solving
• Communication skills
• Time management
• Organisation and Planning
• Computer skills
• Conflict management

If you can identify both the critical technical skills and soft skills / personality traits or attributes that apply directly to your target role and organisation, you'll be way ahead of all your interview competition

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