How to Keep a Job - What Employers Want
How to Keep a Job focuses on the major attributes employers have identified in their long-term and most promotable employees. Although it is important to thoroughly read the entire handbook, we have provided a brief summary of each section below.
Master the Tasks - It is important to master the core tasks required for your job. Even with a great personality, it is essential to be able to do the work listed in your job description. When you reach the point where you excel at what you’re doing, there is still room for improvement. The best employees continue to learn new things every day.
Soft Skills - Eight of the most common soft skills required in the workplace today are a positive attitude and customer service kills, commitment and dependability, flexibility and multi-tasking, communication, appearance, initiative, teamwork and leadership and accountability.
• Attitude and customer service are all about how you treat other people. A person with a friendly attitude and great customer service skills will excel in nearly any job.
• Commitment and dependability exhibit a
willingness to do the best job you can. Loyalty to your organization is a trait that employers value and encourage.
• Flexibility and multi-tasking are a large part of today’s business environment. With constant innovations in technology, our society is changing faster than ever and good employees adapt with the times.
• Communication includes verbal and written
methods of expressing your thoughts. It is critical to your job success that you learn how to both express yourself clearly and listen effectively.
• Appearance is the only skill employers can use their eyes to critique. Because it is so easy to
evaluate a person by what they wear and how
they wear it, your appearance makes the first impression about you.
• Initiative sets you apart. Any time you can help your boss with their work or make their job easier, you will be noticed and remembered.
• Teamwork and leadership are growing in
importance with technological advances that make it easier to come together as a group. Excelling at teamwork marks you as a valuable asset.
• Accountability is the action you take on a
consistent basis that shows you are responsible for yourself, your job and your future.
