I am Marat from EMMOTION, HR professional, career strategist and coach, and today I’d
like to make an introduction video to the main strengths, competencies or skills that
the employers look for in candidates.
You probably heard about competencies before, but what exactly are the they?
A competency is a set of defined behaviors, skills, knowledges and abilities that are
required to perform a task.
Depending on each job position the hiring managers decide the key competencies and skills
required for the role and those are being evaluated during interviews.
Hence the origin of the competency based behavioral interviews.
Which is an interviewing technique when a candidate is asked to describe past behavior
in concrete cases, with concrete examples to determine whether they are suitable for
a position.
Competencies can be split into different categories and levels, if you are interested I am going
to make a detailed video about it.
For now I’d like to go through the main competencies and strengths that most of the
employers are looking for:
Communication Written and oral communication skills are
critical for almost any job.
Whether you are giving a presentation, talking on the phone to a client, or emailing a colleague,
you need to be able to communicate effectively and appropriately.
Your communication skills will be evaluated from the moment you submit your CV, to your
phone and face to face interviews, when he hiring manager will focus on how well you
handle the interview and communicate with the people you meet during the hiring process.
2.
Flexibility and Adaptability Any job requires some form of flexibility,
from juggling multiple tasks to working flexible hours.
Employees need to be adaptable, taking change in stride.
Flexibility means being open to changes in your role at work or being able to adjust
your work routine and schedule, whenever it’s necessary.
Employers prefer to hire employees who are willing to do what they can to get the job
done, and who are agreeable to changes in the typical workplace routine.
3.
Analytical and Problem Solving skills Companies are looking for people who are motivated
to take on challenges with minimal direction.
Analytical skills refer to your ability to collect and analyze information, solve the
problems, and make decisions.
Nearly every job requires critical thinking on some level.
Analytical strength can help solve a company’s problems and increase their productivity.
Showing that you can gather information, resolve problems, and make decisions will enhance
your chances during the recruitment process.
4.
Teamwork Most jobs require teamwork of some sort.
Employers want candidates who are willing to work with others, and can do so effectively.
Regardless of the job, employers want to hire people who are team players who are cooperative
and work well with others.
They don’t want employees who are difficult to work with.
When you are interviewing make sure to share examples of how you worked well on a team.
Hiring managers will be interested both in how you have worked as part of a team and
how you manage teams (if you are interviewing for a leadership role).
5.
Customer Focus:
“The customer is always right”” is a phrase still used a lot by many however the
customer focus goes beyond that.
Customer orientation means keeping an internal and external customers in mind at all times.
Assisting your business partners and customers to achieve their work goals and provide consistent
customer satisfaction.
The ability and willingness to find out what the customer wants and needs and to act accordingly,
taking the organization’s costs and benefits into account.
6.
Reliability/Commitment
Employers want to know they have employees they can depend on, and who are responsible
and professional.
You need to be able to show up on time and get your work done by designated deadlines.
When asked about reliability, good examples to share are ones that describe how you were
able to meet project deadlines or how you can be counted on to get your work done efficiently.
Any example that might show your consistency and trustworthy at work.
7.
Time Management
Every employee is expected to get a certain amount of work completed, in a certain amount
of time, or they won’t be doing their job effectively.
What’s when organizing and prioritizing comes in handy.
Achieving better results, both at work and in personal life by organizing time effectively
also increases productivity both on and off the job.
Identifying and eliminating time wasters reinforces planning, priorities and achieving goals.
8.
Stress Resistance Stress tolerant employees demonstrate stability
and maintain their performance under pressure.
Tolerating time pressures, control of their own response when criticized or provoked.
A candidate with this competency would remain focused in emergency situations, composed
and optimistic and would bounce back from failures or disappointments.
9.
Leadership
Companies that hire for leadership roles, seek employees who promote organization’s
mission and goals, showing ways to achieve them.
A leader creates a positive work environment where all of staff are motivated to do their
best.
Even if you're not applying for management roles, leadership is very valuable.
Demonstrating how you applied each competency through examples on your past experiences
will partially define the impression you make on hiring managers, and the success of your
job interviews of course.
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