Skills Employers Crave, Job Search Checklist, Walmart DEI Backlash - Nov 26, 2024
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Hello, Career Climbers! As the year wraps up, it's time to sharpen your competitive edge — especially when it comes to the interpersonal skills that can make a real impact on your growth. We’ve got practical insights on essential people skills, the secret sauce to thriving in any workplace. Keep reading and keep climbing!
On the agenda:?
???Skills Employers Crave: Are your people skills job-ready?
???Walmart DEI Backlash: Diversity, equity and inclusion programs to be curbed.
??Job Search Checklist?—?GIFT: A starting point for finding something better.
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SPOTLIGHT?
Are Your People Skills Job-Ready? 20 Interpersonal Traits Employers Crave
Much of the workforce today have spent years gaining qualifications, technical skills, and certifications, only to find that employers are increasingly looking for something else — interpersonal skills.
?? Employers now consider soft skills to be as important, if not more so, than technical skills when hiring new employees. In fact, 73% of employees in a Gallup survey said that strong interpersonal skills are critical for driving performance and innovation within organizations.
Technological and AI advancements are making the technical expertise of workers less relied upon, among other factors. Yet, many people focus on gaining unnecessary qualifications, neglecting the interpersonal skills that make a real impact in the workplace.
So, what makes people skills so critical to business and hiring managers? ?? Interpersonal qualities aid the flow of communication, collaboration, task progression, and contribute to the successful functioning of teams and create desirable work environments.
Hiring managers and employers in 2024 therefore crave individuals who can connect, negotiate, lead with empathy, and adapt to ever-evolving team dynamics. Without these traits, even the most technical employee can struggle to thrive.
?? Ready to stand out and succeed? Reveal the 20 essential interpersonal skills employers are looking for in 2024 and beyond.
NEWS THAT MATTERS
Walmart Rolls Back DEI Programs after Right-Wing Backlash
Walmart, the largest private employer in the United States, will curb some diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) efforts in the face of growing pressure. [Yahoo Finance]
???Remote Work Crackdown: How Trump’s DOGE Could Push Federal Workers to Quit
DOGE, a nongovernmental entity helmed by Elon Musk and biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, is expected to push for an end to remote work across federal agencies to help reduce the federal workforce through attrition.?[CNN Politics]
???Forget Work-Life Balance. It’s the Future of Less Work
Work-life balance is out, and the future is less work. Forbes explores how shorter workweeks and reduced hours are reshaping productivity and well-being. [Forbes]
???Ford Cuts 4,000 Jobs in Europe, Including 800 in UK, after Slowdown in EV Sales
Ford announces significant job cuts across Europe and the UK due to slowing EV sales and economic challenges. What does this mean for the auto industry? [Guardian]
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