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What Employers Are Looking For
When applying for a
new role, it is important to think about what the
employer may actually be looking for. Employers are looking for
evidence that you have the skills and qualities needed to perform well
in the role.
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Primarily, an employer will want to see that you have the specific
qualifications, experience or specialist skills that are necessary to
perform in the particular role.
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In addition to qualifications and technical skills, employers also want
to see "employability skills", which are almost universal across all
employers. For example, they will want to see teamwork, problem
solving, communication (listening, verbal, written), analytical,
computer, initiative, planning/organising and self-management skills
and the ability to learn. These are all important to showing you will
be a well-rounded, competent, future employee.
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There will also be certain "attributes" that the employer will be
looking out for. These are your values, personality traits or personal
characteristics. For example, important attributes may be honesty and
integrity, commitment, loyalty, enthusiasm, reliability, commonsense,
good self-esteem, sense of humour, motivation, willingness to learn and
flexibility/adaptability.
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More and more often, employers expect you to know what their needs are
and how you can fill them. It is critical to success these days, that
you are aware what they are looking for in a potential recruit. It is
not 100% focus on YOU as it used to be in the recruitment process but
what YOU can bring to the company and how you can assist them to move
forward. What is good news is that once you know what the employers are
looking for, you can tailor your background aligns with the common
employer requirements.
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Obviously, some employers will want to see certain skills and
attributes more than others and what they require will also vary
depending on the particular role they are recruiting for. The above
lists are not exhaustive. As long as you can touch on the majority of
the above points and illustrate some practical examples for each, you
will impress the reader. Try to make sure that you demonstrate these
important factors in the whole recruitment process, including your CV,
cover letter and application forms as well as in any interviews you go
to.
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