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Recruiter Tips: What are Employers Looking For?
What are employers looking for? It depends -- every employer seeks a different mix of skills and experience from a prospective employee. But one thing they look for consistently is soft skills.
This month's video podcast highlights the importance of defining your soft skills while in an interview. Your resume doesn't tell the whole story, so make sure your social skills shine as much as your work skills.
What are soft skills? Soft skills are intrapersonal and interpersonal skills that determine a person's ability to excel or at least fit in a particular social structure, such as a project team or a company. These skills include competencies in areas such as Emotional Intelligence (EI), communication, leadership ability, etiquette, conflict resolution, decision making, self-motivation, self-discipline, persuasion, social graces, personal habits, friendliness, and optimism that mark people to varying degrees. Soft skills complement hard skills, which are the technical requirements to a job.
Remember the phrase from your report card -- "works and plays well with others"? That's a critical soft skill, and there are many more, all of them important for any job in any industry. More and more corporations around the world recognize that, in order to gain a competitive advantage, they also need to make sure their people know how to handle themselves at work and how to relate with their customers and peers.
Check out the rest of my series of Recruiter Tips in the coming weeks. I hope that you find them useful and good luck!
Posted by Brendan Courtney on March 25, 2008 at 9:16 AM
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