Skills and attributes valued by employers
Employers look for various skills and attributes that you may specifically need for the job. A skill is something your good at. You can achieve skills or you may already be good at these skills. A list of different skills would be communicating skills, organising skills or planning skills.
Specific attributes are attributes that you specifically need for your job for example if you wanted to be a computer technician then you would have to have certain techniques and qualities for your job. Not all jobs require specific.
General attributes
· Planning skills – Having good planning skills shows that you plan your work out first before you actually do anything. This is good because it shows you’re organised and are willing to plan ahead of schedule. Most people that plan their work sometimes also have a back up plan in case all goes wrong, with the back up plan at least there not stuck and have something to show and work on, planning your work out also shows that you want to plan it to get it to perfection. Planning your work also shows that you’re willing to take as long as it takes to get it done properly.
· Leadership Skills – Having good leadership skills is good because it shows promotion maybe to manager if you’re not already manager. It also shows that you lead everyone else who maybe is not as confident, those who have recently been promoted to supervision or team leadership and know they need to know more about leadership to be effective in the leader role but those who have been in management and supervision for quite some time but have received little training and may lack confidence in their leadership roles.
· Organising skills – Organisation skills is great, it shows great time keeping skills, being organised could mean your always on time know what your going to do before you do it, always have everything you need, folders, notes etc. All leaders/managers should have good organisation skills to organise out, breaks, lunches, attendance sheet and the rota etc.
· Communication Skills
Good communication skills is being able to communicate well with others, and participate in tasks with other employees, this also shows good team working skills. More people nowadays interact with people and plan work out together rather than doing it all by yourself, it can get boring.
Attitudes
There are different types of attitudes.
Some skills and attitudes can be taught and learnt, such as the technical skills. Other skills such as determination, problem solving, leadership, confidence and self-motivation, these are all part of the way you are and act. An attitude can be a feeling and some attitudes can lead to temper.
