Thursday, June 2, 2011

Impressive Attributes

The following article was in today's Child Care Exchange newsletter. I thought it was worth posting and asking you to think about how this course could help you build these attributes and answer some of these questions. Click here to subscribe to the newsletter.

Barbara Moses, writing in Work & Family Life (April 2011) notes that employers are looking for these attributes when interviewing job candidates:

Innovation.  Say what you’ve done in the past to help generate or bring about change or growth.  Offer fresh ideas for the future.

Teamwork.  Tell about when you helped a coworker or how you responded (in a mature, positive way) when you did not get the cooperation you sought.

Decision-making.
  Describe your thinking process prior to making a tough decision.

Leadership
.  Tell about a time when it was difficult to get help on a project and what you did in response to make something happen.  Talk about the “big picture.”

Tenacity
.  Talk about a difficult situation when your persistence paid off.

Attention to details.  Describe the process you use to control errors.

Emotional IQ
.  Tell how you dealt with a frustrating situation.

Flexibility.  Talk about how you got around an obstacle that was preventing you from finishing a task or project.




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