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Skills employers like?

  • 02-03-2009 09:38PM
    #1
    ManwitaPlan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 183 ✭✭


    Im interested in doing a night course but cant really decide on what to do.


    Im just wondering if there is anything that employers particularly like or things that would be useful throughout a career (working in business)?


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  • #2
    Kernel32
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 640 ✭✭✭Kernel32


    There is one key thing that employers do like. Not a skill per se, but a question. "Can I put him/her in front of a client?" If the answer is yes, no matter what you work in, IT, finance, picking turnips etc, then you will do well in your chosen profession. The closer you can get to the point of influencing the closing of a sale the safer your job is, the higher you're valued and the more you will be compensated.

    Others may disagree with that analysis but thats what I have found in my own experience and it's a question that always comes up when ever I am involved in evaluating a potential new hire.


  • #3
    doolox
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,350 ✭✭✭doolox


    My father was in business all his life and loved dealing with people.
    He would talk for hours with all types and was in sales most his life.
    I did a stint as a milkman for three years.
    I found dealing with people who were basically out for they could get very stressful. Having to be nice to them all the time when you felt the opposite inside was very sould destroying and stressful.
    You have to have a thick skin in sales.
    You have to put up with a lot of bull and lies and greed and insults and making up for other peoples mistakes. Heaven forfend if you make a mistake of your own and get caught. They will never let you forget it.
    Sales should be seen as a temporary way to a higher job, then when you get there you can start to dictate terms and control things, in a limited way.
    At least you can start to have some time off and live............


  • #4
    Kernel32
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 640 ✭✭✭Kernel32


    Sales is an awful job and that wasn't actually my point. The sweet spot is to be a doer and a talker. Sales are talkers. They are important but don't really know how to do anything, how to delivery anything. Other types of people are doer's. They focus and getting product or service delivered. What you want to be is a skilled doer who can be injected into a sales process and be seen as someone who was instrumental in making the sale but you don't have to be the sales person.

    So for the OP I would suggest rather than focus on some specific skill within his or her industry, I would focus on enhancing your soft skills which broadens your reach within an organization.


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