Job Interview: 4 Skills Employers Are Looking For

Every job has specific skills that the employer is looking to find in candidates. These skills tell the recruiter whether you are qualified for a position or not. For this reason, it is important that you demonstrate relevant skills whenever you get the chance.

The job interview is your chance to show the recruiter or employer that you are fit for the position, so instead of just answering questions, you need to focus on showcasing your skills.

How do you do this?
Some of the important skills that employers are looking for in potential employees include the ability to work as a team, organizational skills, detail-oriented individuals and good communication skills among others. While you may already have these skills listed in your CV, employers and recruiters will relate to you more if you can demonstrate these skills in the interview.

Interview skills to showcase in an Interview

1. You are decisive and can help solve problems
Employers want to hire someone they know can help come up with solutions to arising issues in the job. They will also be inclined to take someone who can easily make decisions. For this reason, it is important that you show the employer these two qualities in the interview.

To achieve this, use examples of projects you worked on or times you had to make a decision for your team when answering various interview questions. Avoid giving straight answers that appear recited, and instead focus on giving explanations on each. Create a picture the recruiter can identify with.

2. You are organized and detail-oriented
You may think it’s difficult to showcase your organizational skills, it’s not! How you handle your documents in the interview room is enough to tell the employer what kind of a person you are. If you are asked to provide certificates or other documents, make sure you have them well organized in a folder. This way you will not have to go through everything you carried in a disorderly manner.

You’ll find some job candidates trying to find a document through their bags; this is clear enough that you are not an organized person.

3. You can work well in a team
This can be demonstrated in the way you choose to answer the interview questions. While referencing what you did as a person instead of a team is advised, be sure to kick in a few team references in the answers. You can talk of a project you completed by working well with a team.

Be careful of your body language when talking about team work in your previous job, the recruiter can pick up on your facial expressions.

4. You can interact with clients in an understandable manner
How are your communication skills? Employers want to hire individuals who show confidence in their speaking and can pass a message in a few sentences. Avoid being too wordy when answering interview questions, instead be brief and to the point. Don’t take the interviewer in circles when you could have answered in three or lesser sentences.

Focus on letting the recruiter understand what you are saying the time you say it.

Job interviews do not have to be complicated, all you need is a strategy and the right tips to get through it.

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