2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:43
If you are still in search of your professional vocation, sorting out areas in which you could find yourself and are in doubt whether you will fit for an attractive position for you, this research can instill in you a certain amount of confidence. Professional knowledge can be gleaned in educational institutions, the ability to learn over time, and personal qualities must be nurtured in oneself! I will introduce you to the most demanded and the rarest (but no less valuable and resourceful) qualities that a strong professional should possess.
The Internet portal for job search HeadHunter has conducted a study of the most popular personal qualities that representatives of companies from various professional fields expect to see in job seekers. Research department specialists analyzed more than 1,000,000 vacancies of Russian companies submitted to the portal from January to August 2014.
Our hit parade opens the most universal quality for broad-based professionals - this is sociability. 32% of employers (every third vacancy) prefer sociable and open-minded employees. And this is not surprising. An enterprise, a company, a firm, a factory is a kind of community of people connected by common goals. And the links of this system are connected together by communicative channels, in other words, the ways people communicate with each other. Even if your primary responsibility is to monitor plant equipment, there are other people working around you. Therefore, throughout the entire working process, you will repeatedly explain, teach, negotiate, inform, propose, etc. The overall performance of the company depends on how skillfully and expediently the employees communicate with each other and with clients.
With a small margin, he is pursued by the following, very important quality - responsibility.
As a career counseling consultant, I can responsibly declare that I would put this quality first in all vacancies. A responsible person is one who has a sense of conscience in relation not only to himself, but also to the common cause. A responsible person can show a number of important qualities in work: diligence, initiative, leadership. If you really find a responsible person - consider that you have found a grain of gold. Even if today his professional competence is far from your expectations, the feeling of responsibility for the trust placed in him will urge this person to study, improve his skills, and produce results. And soon you will be surprised by the rapid professional growth of this "newbie". The difficulty is that a direct question: "Are you a responsible person?" You will hardly be able to determine this quality in the applicant. If communication skills can be learned rather quickly, then responsibility is a value category. This quality is developed gradually. A responsible person is an adult. If you want reliable people on your team, be prepared to lead them by example. For many managers, this can be a serious test and a "test of strength".
The third most popular universal professionally important quality is mobility (17% of vacancies). Times are changing, and now employers want their employees to be ready for change. I recommend that you consider this quality in a broad sense: the ability to move quickly, adapt to different working conditions, the mobility of consciousness, i.e. the ability to quickly grasp new information, learn quickly, introduce new knowledge, information, habits into their work.
Stress tolerance - Yes! Kilometers of texts have been written about the role that stress plays in the modern world. It is not enough just to endure adverse conditions by clenching your teeth. This means that you can awaken additional resources in yourself when times are tough.
Below is a short list of the most universal qualities in descending order:
- Attentiveness
- Diligence
- Accuracy
- Openness
- Purposefulness (the secret of purposefulness is the ability to connect the personal goals of employees with the goals of the company. How can an employee of the company fulfill his dreams and desires? motivational work with their subordinates.)
- Independence
- Active life position
It is unlikely that the list of the most desirable qualities surprised you. In my opinion, it's pretty predictable. The portrait of the “ideal average employee of the company” is caricatured to the point of impossibility: a sociable, polite young man or girl who willingly and diligently performs her job. The picture is a dream!
I would like to draw your attention to the other side of the study - a list of the most rare personality traits indicated in vacancies. I will briefly comment on some of them.
Gallantry. Why not? Now more and more women are driving their own cars. This means that one day they will become customers of some car service. Naturally, there are many car services in Yaroslavl (and in any other more or less large city). How do they differ from each other? Practically nothing: location in the industrial zone, noisy hangars, snob-masters. Now imagine how, among this dull monotony, a service with gallant craftsmen would stand out. Okay, I got excited about all the masters. With a gallant administrator, because it is with him that all clients will deal. I am sure that with an average level of service and prices, the number of customers for such a company would be many times greater.
Cold-bloodedness. It is believed that this quality is useful for a narrow range of professions - law enforcement officials, doctors, rescuers. In my opinion, it is closely related to the most popular quality from the list above, stress resistance. It is composure that will help you make sober and balanced decisions in a short period of time in unfavorable circumstances (force majeure, picky or inadequate client, a sharp lack of time).
Expressiveness (expressiveness), Generosity and Temperament. It is believed that the manifestation of human emotions during work is unprofessional. Let's not generalize. The duty smile, the standard greeting, the protocol gratitude for the purchase have become objects of the parody genre. Therefore, our attention is so caught by people who treat their clients not only as a source of their salary, but as people, that is, humanly. It's funny that now there are training programs that train the service personnel of companies precisely in a generous and emotional attitude towards customers. The calculation is quite simple: our emotional memory (those feelings and sensations that we experienced) is more stable than logical memory. Consumers will better remember exactly the company where they experienced pleasant emotions, talked with real people, and not with service robots, and will subconsciously choose it, despite other minor flaws.
I hope that the data from this study will be useful to both employers and job seekers for promising positions.
Leaders and HR professionals can start looking for a unique set of qualities for their employees. This search can ultimately lead you to a unique corporate culture and work style.
And if you are in the process of looking for a job, pay attention to rare professional qualities. Perhaps it is in them that you will find a resource for finding the job of your dreams.
The author of the article,
career guidance and career counseling consultant,
psychologist - psychotherapist,
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