What Do Employers Look For In Employees?
What do employers look for in employees or what do employers really want? A great question that will lead you to interviewing success. To answer these questions lets firstly consider a great interview tip.
One of the best interview tips, is to first put you into your interviewers shoes. It is a massive advantage to be able to see things from their point of view.
The first issue facing the employer is the potential risk. It is common knowledge that most hires are considered unsuccessful by differing degrees. And this is with all the interviewing and assessment work that goes into the modern hiring approach. It is also amazing to consider the monetary value of hiring mistakes, between 10 to 28 times the annual salary; even more for C level mistakes.
Who can blame employers for using every effort to avoid recruitment mistakes.
When considering how to ace your your job interviews, another way to consider the assessment process is as a very serious buying decision. The psychology of how people make such big buying decisions is that evaluate them on two factors, logical criteria and emotional criteria. Some people give more weight to their emotional drivers other people their logical.
For recruiting this{ all boils down to the logical; or do they feel you have the attributes and experience needed to fulfill the role; and the emotional drivers explained as , do they think you will fit in with the culture. This second one I like to call likability.
Demonstrate the logical and likable attributes to the satisfaction of your interviewer and you PASS, or in the case of a final interview you have WON the job offer.
Nearly; Nearly all companies have been caught by the excellent candidate who it later turns out, had rather exaggerated their ability through the assessment process.
PROOF is the magic ingredient that will turn your job interviews into job offers.
What do employers look for in employees? Proof of attributes, achievements, abilities, and experience is what potential employers are really looking for.
Sounds good, but how do I do it?
This article is in danger of getting too long so let me put my foot on the gas. The following list of interview principals is what I consider to be your interviewing Nirvana. Do most of the following and I promise you will receive an offer from nearly every company you target with this approach.
So here goes my interview checklist for success
1. Reflect and research to gain a clear vision of what you are looking for.
2. Understand really what your potential employer requires. Clue; you will have to go much deeper .
3. Research; to gain a crystal clear understanding of your strengths and weakness, as they apply to your TARGET employer.
4. Plan how you will compensate for any gaps or weaknesses you may have.
5. Compile COMPELLING marketing materials (letters, resume or CV, brag book, testimonials, articles, OBJECTIVE Statement, 30 60 90 day plan).
6. Use the STAR method for answering those difficult interview questions heading your way.
7. Carefully plan your own intelligent questions to ask.
8. Learn positive body language (the old adage it is not what you say but how you say it definitely holds true).
9. Do not dismiss the power of NETWORKING. The other old adage It is not what you know but WHO you know is also true.
10. Use a plan or strategy to harness all of the above.
Note. Concealed in the above are 2 of the best interview tips I know, the use of a Brag Book (or, achievements portfolio) is probably the best technique I know for demonstrating PROOF.
And a 30 60 90 day plan is the secret technique that turns the assessment process completely on its head
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