What Employers Want
Awareness of employer’s expectations is essential to finding a job. Older job-hunting techniques focused on “you”, the person. It laid emphasis on your work history, accomplishments, academic background and other credentials. It focused on your qualifications and objectives as well. But that has changed and today, employers expect you to know what their needs are and tell them how you can complement the organization.
Energy
Displaying the right energy and initiative is very important. Energetic people are credited with enthusiasm, vigor and drive and that is exactly what employers want. Most jobs require you to be proactive. Employers can easily evaluate this ability, almost as soon as the candidate enters the room. If you are not an energetic person, you should practice ways to look and act accordingly, in order to make a good first impression. It can make a huge difference; most of the time, job opportunities are won or lost on approach and preparation.
Specific Skills
Every job involves a set of specific skills and education or training, with the required background and experience. Most often, these skill sets are mentioned in the advertisement. If, however, they are not mentioned specifically, find out about the company and its hierarchical structure. This will help you to prepare to present specific abilities and initiative, creating a positive impact on the employer. Your primary concern, once you have the list of required skills, should be to present evidence that you have those skills.
This could involve your academic qualifications, projects and achievements. In addition, you need to project the capability to meet job responsibilities, work experience, voluntary activities and tasks in personnel management. The key is to try to match your skills and capability to the specific requirement of the employer. Highlight the relevant areas, since recruiters usually do not have a lot of time on hand and have to deal with a number of applications. They show interest only in particular skill sets that are required by the organizations that they represent. Make these skill sets noticeable. Precision and brevity are important too, but it is also important to highlight the skills you possess and how you can be an asset to the firm.
Transferable Skills
There are particular skills that most employers look for that have nothing to do with the competencies required for the particular job. These skills indicate the development potential and not the knowledge level. These so-called transferable skills include communication, teamwork, leadership, initiative, problem solving, adaptability, motivation and numerical skills. In addition to this, private sector companies prefer the candidate to have some idea of how the firm operates, current business news and trends and their impact on the organization. The courses completed, work experience and hobbies are of value as well. Be ready to answer clearly if asked at the interview as to how your education has prepared you for a specific job. You should be prepared with a good and precise answer. It is important to plan in advance.
By applying the steps above, you will be well on your way to giving employers what they want and conducting a highly successful job search.
By: Tony Jacowski
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Job Hunting Tips — What Employers Look For
January 11th, 2010How is Online Degrees Increase your Competitiveness in Job Market
October 22nd, 2009Recent years, online degrees gain their popularity among the working individual because of the flexibility of learning style. The common reasons of working adults go back to school to earn additional degree are either for job promotion, career advancement or enhancement of their knowledge in their job related fields. The job market is very competitive, to stay and survive in this competitive world, you need to continue maintain and increase your competitiveness in the job market. A strong educational background is one of the most important credentials that can help you to become much more attractive to your employer and secure you with a brighter future.
For those people who are employed and want to success in their career, they know that they need to compete among his/her colleagues and new graduates that enter the job market every year. In order to be a winner in any job promotion, working experience, skills and a strong knowledge in the related field are among the important factors that determine the final result. Besides building your working experience and skills over time, you need to continue refresh the knowledge related to your career. If you are looking for a career switch, a strong education background will definitely help you to transition your career smoothly.
But, going back to school is not an easy decision for many working individuals; especially those who have family commitment and/or other financial reasons that hold back their intention to on-hold their job just to go back to classroom for a degree. Under this condition, online degrees provide a perfect solution that enable one to earn their favorite degree while continue their current career moves.
Flexibility of learning style is one of the key advantages of online degree program and the main factor that makes the online education becomes popular among the working individuals. Online degree programs enable you to design your learning schedule and study at your own pace, from any remote locations such as your comfort home, workplace or internet café as long as the place has a connection to internet. Such flexibility has enabled you to schedule your learning time which fit perfectly into your busy working schedule and time you need to spend with your family.
Online degrees cover almost all subjects offer in traditional class-based education. You will be able to find a degree that suite your need and increase your competitiveness in the highly competitive job market. The best place to search you favorite online degrees is from internet. Many resources available at internet, you can utilize these resources to find a degree that can help you to meet your career goal. The best thing of search and getting information from internet is convenient and it’s free of charge (FOC). Looking for degrees offer by any online university and submit an information request is just a click of button. Be aware of every online degree programs offer by different online universities might be slightly different in term of courses although those degree programs carry the same title. Hence, you need to review each and every one of courses contains in the degree programs to ensure it meet your goal.
Summary
Working experience, skills and a strong knowledge are the most important factor that determining your success of your career in your favorite field. Online degrees provide an easily and convenient channel for you to refresh the required knowledge and equip yourself with a strong educational background to increase your competitiveness in the job market.
By: Amelia Turner
