Skill emphasis during the interview is important to show the employer what makes you different from all the other job candidates. In this competitive world, companies search for the most qualified employees by weighing skills of the candidates and determining how they would benefit the company.

Majority of the top companies search for employers who stands out based from their expertise, ability to give new developments, and pleasing personalities that would enhance the organization.

Skills are grouped into three kinds â?? knowledge-based, transferable, and personal traits.

1) Knowledge-based skills are those learned from experiences. These may include educational attainment, additional training, seminars attended, and other practices that you have studied to enhance your expertise.

Knowledge-based skills include computer and communication skills, marketing or managerial knowledge, product development, and many more. These skills vary depending on the field of industry of each job candidate.

2) Transferable or portable skills are those you bring to a specific job. This is the reason why interviewers ask, â??What could you offer the company?â? Transferable skills are important because companies strive to look for quality employees that would improve the development of the workforce.

Portable skills include problem solving, team leader potential, organized, writing and communication skills, customer service oriented, time and project management, and good with numbers and budget. This kind of skills varies depending on the experience and versatility of each job candidate.

3) Personal traits determine who you are. In a job interview, one of the most common things an employer says is â??Tell me something about yourself.â? Your response is vital because it would set the tone for the rest of the interview.

Personal traits include good judgment, well organized, analytical, goal oriented, flexible, creative and many more. Try to sell yourself in as modest as possible within a limited time.

* Self-assessment. In order to provide an impressive presentation, examine your resume and list all the skills you have used for each past job experience. Make a comprehensive list of your skills and strengths including personal traits, knowledge-based and transferable skills. This would be the basis for your personal commercial.

* Once you have completed your script, you are now ready to face the interviewer. Remember that employers are interested in your accomplishments. Use words that are concise, direct and clear.

Although many companies require a unique set of skills, you should still highlight your technical skills in the interview. These skills, which top companies usually seek, include leadership, communication, confidence, flexibility, problem solving and energy.

Emphasizing all of your strengths and skills on job interviews would increase your chances of landing the desired job.

Nicholas Tan
http://www.articlesbase.com/careers-articles/jobs-importance-of-skills-emphasis-on-job-interviews-316569.html

As a personal development coach, a question that comes my way nearly every day is, “how do I gain confidence.” I’m sometimes surprised at the crazy notions people can have regarding “what it takes” to become a confident person. Some even produce a laundry list of things they believe they must do, achieve and overcome in order to gain confidence.

When this happens, my primary job shifts from coach to “bubble buster.” Here’s why:

Building confidence is a process, but it does not have to take ages. Well-meaning “experts” will often tell you the opposite: “there are no shortcuts to building confidence-it takes a long time, and lots of hard work, yada, yada, yada…”

Allow me to strongly disagree. Confidence is not something you gain because you have finally earned your own respect. Not at all! Confidence comes from the realization that you don’t have to do anything to be worthy of your respect. This realization can take you 5 minutes or five years; it’s entirely up to you.

The fact is, you are worthy of every bit of respect and acceptance you can muster simply because you exist. Nature is awesome and filled with infinite possibility; therefore YOU are awesome and filled with infinite possibility-end of story.

I am aware that there is a very misguided notion throughout the world that insists that humans have value only if they achieve something that others in their culture deem “worthy.”

I’m also aware that this paradigm is pure self-destructive nonsense.

But that wasn’t always the case. For much of my life I accepted the reigning paradigms of pettiness and self-loathing that are so prevalent in society (see any of the so-called “reality” TV shows for verification). I only gained personal and financial freedom after I began to see through some of the disinformation that pollutes our collective consciousness, and decided that “I” had tremendous value simply because I was here-no matter what I did, said or achieved (of all the nerve!).

When an individual ‘wakes up” and begins seeing this illogical, competitive paradigm that much of the world operates under for what it is, they become supremely confident. They no longer are bound by achievement or the opinions of others.

Ironically, people who develop this level of self-acceptance often achieve great things. When you are not bound by achievement or competition, your creative mind takes center stage, and you begin creating greatness in your life, instead of pissing around with the “rat race” trying to compete for scraps.

If you want to “work on” building confidence for five years, and you’ve got that kind of time to waste, that’s entirely your call. But it’s not necessary. Powerful confidence can developed in a week. I’ve seen it many times, and there are plenty of tools to help you do it-once you know where to look.

Yes, developing confidence is a process, but no, it doesn’t have to take a long time. You don’t have to “earn” confidence, like some Boy Scout merit badge. You only have to recognize that you are already worthy of more respect than you could possibly give yourself in ten lifetimes. It’s a matter of accepting what is already true: your power, potential and ability are awesome.

Jon Mercer
http://www.articlesbase.com/self-help-articles/how-do-i-gain-confidence-119671.html

I'm interested in practical advice or tips on increasing self confidence and self esteem in particular with guys. My friends and even strangers often tell me that I'm very pretty and smart but when I like a guy, I often don't have the confidence to believe in myself and end up losing him for what is interpreted as lack of interest. How can I believe in myself more? I am capable and have good friends, the problem seems to start when I like a guy. I've had some good relationships but recently seem to have been disappointed in a couple of guys I dated.

Sadly, it's sort of a downward spiral. You lose self-confidence and it hits your self-esteem which lowers your confidence which lowers your self-esteem, etc.

Having been through the cycle before, my advice is that you need to take a moment and perform an honest self-assessment. In doing so, you need to put everything (and I mean everything) in your life under the microscope and figure out what stays and what has to go. It's not always easy, and you don't come out of it all smiles and grins. But, you should have a plan and (at the risk of sounding all Tony Robbins) the next step is to execute the plan. For me, it involved focusing on work and being a responsible adult (i.e., pay my bills, stop buying things I didn't need, and get into shape).

The idea being that you gain self-confidence when you reach the goals that you set for yourself; because once you learn that you can do things that you set your mind to do, you learn to trust yourself. Once you learn to trust yourself, you find that you can stop relying on others and that's when you have self-esteem.

What also helps is making sure that you have a solid support network. I'm going to be honest, that's not as easy as it sounds. You need to associate with people who don't have needless drama in their lives. If you have friends and family that drama just seems to go out of its way to then find, you need to reduce the amount of time you spend with those folks. Sometimes this can be painful or confusing, but unstable people are a wrecking ball for the self-esteem and confidence of others.

I hope that helps.