PORTFOLIO CREATIVE BLOG

What Employers Look For: Performance Skills Are Critical To Career Success

By Kristen Harris

Whether searching for a new position, or looking to advance your current career, it’s necessary to understand the skills and traits employers are looking for. In an environment where education and training is fairly accessible, it is possible for technical skills to become a commodity. If so, then what will set you apart from all the other candidates when applying for a position?

In a recent survey, Portfolio Creative found performance skills (how you do the work) to be at least as important as technical skills

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Surprising Traits Key to Career Success

Great recent article about three suprising characteristics that help people succeed in their careers. Humility. Faith. Optimism. Not what you were expecting, right? Once again it’s clear how it takes more than skills, training and work experience to succeed in today’s job market. Those may be the expected, base-level requirements, but employers are looking for more in their ideal candidate.

Humility. A rare trait, and one that may not be expected at higher levels. Think you only get ahead by being cutthroat and climbing the ladder

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