What Employers Want: 3 Traits
Phil Randazzo
Founder @ American Dream U / Helping military members find freedom, peace & physical excellence—choosing their own adventure through entrepreneurship, career change & integrating through habit change to own their future.
What if you could peer into employers’ minds and find out what they want in an employee? Job applications and interviews would become like a math test where you’ve already seen most of the answers.
Ian Altman shared with our ADU LIVE participants some of the top traits employers value the most. Here are three:
Drama-Free
Employers don’t want to be distracted by a variety of employee issues. For the most part, they want individuals who will show up and stay focused on the mission.?
There are a multitude of areas in a company that employees could choose to be dramatic about. This wastes valuable company time and could detract from job satisfaction, ultimately weakening overall performance. Employers want people who will stay on target and get tasks done.
Reliable
Reliability is often overlooked but is in fact a very valuable characteristic. Employers want somebody they know they can count on.
For many employers, an ideal employee is someone they are sure is going to show up and get the work done. They’re going to be able to work well with other people and they’ll do what they need to do to get the product done.?
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Reliable employees do what it takes to meet deadlines. Their employers don’t have to worry about them - they know they can trust reliable employees to do their work and do it well.
Adaptable?
Finally, employers value people who are adaptable. If things change, the best employees will be flexible to still meet the company’s needs.
This is something military service members are quite familiar with. If something changes in the military, nobody can say, “well something changed, so I am not going to focus on this mission anymore.” You find a way around it because that’s what you have to do.
Employers want someone who can still meet the goal even when the parameters change.
These qualities may seem obvious or easy to some, especially those with a military background. However, they are surprisingly hard to come by in the civilian workforce. Having these traits and using them in the workplace can set you apart from the competition and help you stand out.