Discussing skills and qualities needed for finding a job

1. Communication skills:

In employer surveys, communication skills consistently ranked at the

top of the list of soft skills hiring managers are looking for in new hires. The
effective exchange of information is essential in all careers.

This cover verbal, written communication, and listening. You need to

be able to express your opinion concisely, clearly and listen to the views of the
others.

High efficiency: making your message as easy to emerge as possible

reduces the chance of misunderstandings, speeds up projects and helps others
quickly understand your goals. Instead of speaking in long, detailed sentences,
practice reducing your message down to its core meaning. While providing
context is helpful, it is best to give the most necessary information when trying to
communicate your idea, instruction or message.

Empathy: Listening to your colleagues can develop empathy between

you and them, understand their feelings, goals, ideals. Thus, this can help you
when communicate with them. For example, you might need help from other
departments to get a project started. If they are not willing to help or have
concerns, practicing empathy can help you position your message in a way that
addresses their apprehension.

2. Collaboration skills:

Collaboration is one of the fundamental skills employers look for and

it's on the graduate recruiters' high priority list.

Collaboration is all about being able to operate smoothly and

efficiently within a group.
 Boosts Productivity: First things first, working within a team allows for the
workload to be shared equally among members and distributed according to each
member’s skills and strengths. With more hands on deck, tasks are completed
faster and more efficiently, basically increasing productivity. For example, if one
employee has to deliver an important report within 24 hours but has a backlog of
72 hours’ worth of work, the end result will most likely be subpar. Worse, still, he
might not even be able to finish it at all. However, if he were to collaborate with
someone else, chances are the report will be delivered with plenty of time to
spare.

Encourages Innovation: On the other hands, when working on a project, an

individual often needs the input of other employees. By collaborating with
others - different departments or even different offices, your skills can be pooled
to make the project more successful than it might otherwise be.

3. Problem solving skills

At workplace, we encounter lots of problems in our day to day work.

The basic requirement for any employee is that he should be able to find an
effective and optimized solution to such problems. The skill is not just limited to
finding a solution, one must have ability to recognize the problem, analyze its
impact on the business, prioritize it and come up with an optimum solution to
resolve it.
Fixing things that are broken: Some things wear out and break over
time, others are flawed from day-1. Personal and business environments are full
of things, activities, interactions and processes that are broken or not operating in
the way they are desired to work. Problem-solving gives us a mechanism for
identifying these things, figuring out why they are broken and determining a
course of action to fix them.
Addressing risk: Humans have learned to identify trends and
developed an awareness of cause-and-effect relationships in their environment.
These skills not only enable us to fix things when they break but also anticipate
what may happen in the future (based on past-experience and current events).
Problem-solving can be applied to the anticipated future events and used to
enable action in the present to influence the likelihood of the event occurring
and/or alter the impact if the event does occur.
4. Technology skills
We are living in a fast-paced environment where technological devices used
for more reasons than ever. It doesn't matter what type of work you are likely to make
use of a computer
It’s essential in any workplace: Being computer literate is a requirement in
almost any workplace and for any job. It’s difficult to find a job that doesn’t involve a
computer in some way. Almost every position will require a basic understanding of the
operating system. Understanding computers is a foundation on which you can add a new
skill to your list while working. Having this skill is essential for progressing in your career.
Increase work performance: This is especially important if you perform a
job that requires you to use a computer on a regular basis. There are computer feature
programs, such spreadsheet and word-processors, which will help you organize your
thoughts and ideas. You need to know how to use these programs in order to make
proper use of their features. And if you work with a database on a daily basis, then you
won’t be able to do any work without computer knowledge. So, it’s clear that being
computer literate will increase your overall work performance.