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Working life presents many challenges and you need to show employers that you're the kind of person who will find a way through, even when the going gets tough Read more about how to answer questions about handling stress at interview. In the workplace you need to strike the balance of being confident in yourself but not arrogant, but also have confidence in your colleagues and the company you work for.
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Read more about managing ambiguity. Graduate employers look for resilience in their recruits because it enables employees to cope with change, problems and stress. Find out how to develop your resilience and how employers assess it during the recruitment process. Read more about resilience. Analytical skills enable you to work with different kinds of information, see patterns and trends and draw meaningful conclusions.
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Read more about how to show your commercial awareness 2. Communication This covers verbal and written communication, and listening. Read more about communication skills 3. Teamwork You'll need to prove that you're a team player but also have the ability to manage and delegate to others and take on responsibility.
Read more about teamwork 4. Negotiation and persuasion This is about being able to set out what you want to achieve and how, but also being able to understand where the other person is coming from so that you can both get what you want or need and feel positive about it.
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Employers share the skills they want you to have for their workplace — 3. Rakesh Naukira: Communication skills - they're absolutely vital and important both written and verbal communication skills ensuring that you write very, very clearly and articulate it well. And same within the verbal communication. Speaking slowly, articulate yourself and actually think about what you're saying so that the other person understands what you're saying.
Niels Alkemade: Teamwork and interpersonal skills in a candidate is extremely important for us. We're an organization that works in an agile way so you'll be working lots with people across the company and in different project groups. Justin Ensor: Teamwork is essential. More and more collaboration is becoming the centrepiece of what makes us successful. Rakesh: Organisations are about a group of people and it's about those people connecting together and in today's world that we live in it's very diverse.
Having that connection between that diversity is extremely important. Shailen Patel: Nowadays anyone needs to be confident proud of their achievements and be comfortable to show that in an interview.
If you don't shout about yourself no one else will. Sandra Lyall: When we're recruiting, we look at people that are aligned with the values of our organization. So the last value is excellence and that really is being the best that you are, bringing yourself to work and working as hard as you can and bringing that effort through.
Camilla Weinstein: Another quality that we look for in candidates is that they're passionate and driven. We are a technology, software-development house so people that are interested in technology and have a passion for and where the future of technology is going.
Justin: Self-management is really important because yeah New Zealand businesses as a whole tend to be a lot flatter in the organizational structure there's an expectation that you're proactive in recognising what needs to be done and doing it.
Sandra: So one of the key things that we're looking for people that we're recruiting for are agility, sort of, flexibility people that are really open to change and also partnered with that is the real willingness to learn and adapt and be curious. Rekash: Networking always assists anyone in their own career and we also value that in our organisation.
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