BUILDING TRUST WITH POTENTIAL EMPLOYERS IS CRUCIAL, LEARN SOME GREAT TIPS

The skills and experience you bring to your future employer are obviously important, but it's not the whole picture. In addition to specific hands-on experience, technical or functional skills, and roles and responsibilities you have had, how you think, work and communicate is key.

If you jump onto LinkedIn (for example) and review recommendations on people's profiles, or think of feedback you have had in prior performance reviews, your personal behavioural characteristics are often assessed just as much as specific job knowledge and experience.

People like working with good people. Positive characteristics highlighted by individuals may include things like:

1. They were always there when I needed them
2. I knew I could rely on her to get the job done
3. He is one of the hardest-working members of the team
4. Their communication skills are second to none
5. People gravitate towards her, especially in meetings or group tasks
6. He will often go above and beyond what is expected for the role
7. They are incredibly innovative, always exploring different, better and fasters ways to complete the tasks that are assigned

Unlike work 'in the past', employers are increasingly seeking individuals they can trust both from a skillset and personality perspective. Micro Management is mostly (thank goodness) a thing of the past, and it's a wonderful thing to be left to get on with the job, knowing that you can deliver quality work, consistently and be trusted to complete tasks at least to the expected standards, if not exceeding them.

Be sure to emphasise in your CV and job applications, the different types of responsibility and task ownership you have had (however small) in your prior work, as these are building blocks to greater responsibility, trust, and hopefully, a higher income. Emphasise personal characteristics that are at the core of you as a person, independent of specific roles you have held, and make sure when interviewed, that you take the time to mention these, with examples.

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