Let The Employers Know YOU Have The Skills THEY Need

   Employers want workers who demonstrate a positive attitude, are motivated, honest and goal-oriented.  During an interview or written in your resume give examples and highlight the following skills and attributes:

  1. Personal Values:
   • Willing to make the most of opportunities
   •  React well to challenges
   • Willing to reach beyond personal limitations

  2. Problem-Solving and Decision-Making Skills:
   • Can accept additional responsibilities
   • Can talk with others and resolve issues
   • Can make decisions and can carry them out

  3. Ability To Relate With Other People:
   • Friendly and can communicate well with people of all ages
   • Can take initiative when needed
   • Work well with people in all levels of my team

  4. Communication Skills:
   • A good listener
   • Express themselves clearly
   • Not afraid to ask for help when necessary

  5. Task-Related Skills:
   • Can complete work on time
   • Know how to care for tools and materials
   • Follow directions and stick with tasks until they are finished

  6. Maturity:
   • Reliable, dependable, and responsible
   • Take pride in their work
   • Put in the time and effort to do a good job
   • Work well with little or no supervision
   • Willing to take courses or additional training in order to develop new job-related skills

  7. Health and Safety Habits:
   • Know about common health and safety rules
   • Follow established workplace rules and guidelines

  8. Commitment to the Job:
   • Enthusiastic about work and willing to learn
   • Always on time, and give consistent work and effort to the team

  9. Communicate:
   • Understand and speak the language of the business
   • Know and understand any technical or professional terms
   • Listen to understand and learn
   • Read and understand written materials, including charts and graphs

  10. Think:
   • Think critically and act logically to evaluate situation, solve problems and make decisions
   • Solve problems involving math, and use the results
   • Use technology, instruments, tools and information systems effectively
   • Use and apply knowledge from a specialized field (e.g. skilled trades, technology, physical sciences, arts and social sciences)

  11. Learn:
   • Continue to learn for life
   • Take courses to learn, and to upgrade skills

  12. Positive Attitudes and Behaviours:
   • Self-esteem and confidence
   • Honesty and integrity
   • A positive attitude toward learning, growth and personal health
   • Initiative, energy, and persistence to get the job done.

  13. Responsibility:
   • The ability to set goals and priorities in work and personal life
   • The ability to plan and manage time, money, and other resources to achieve goals
   • Accountability for actions taken

  14. Adaptability:
  • A positive attitude toward change
   • Recognition of and respect for people’s diversity and individual differences
   • Ability to identify and suggest new ideas to get the job done creatively

  15. Work With Others:
   • Understand and contribute to the organization’s goals
   • Understand and work within the culture of the group
   • Plan and make decisions with others and support the outcomes
   • Respect the thoughts and opinions of others
   • Exercise ‘give and take’ to achieve group results
   • Seek a team approach as appropriate
   • Lead when appropriate, mobilizing the group for high performance

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