Morning, everyone! If you're going for a job interview today, remember that personality, attitude, and likeability are super important. At least as much as skills and experience, if not more so.
If you needed to choose between two people of the same race (in South Africa, race is a legal hiring criteria), gender, disability status, etc, and with a very similar set of skills and experience, you'd hire the one you like the most. You might even try to get away with hiring the one with slightly LESS skills and experience, if they were more likeable. It's just human nature: people want to work with people they get on with.
So work on your social skills. Be yourself at all times, don't try to be someone you're not, but also try to present the best parts of yourself in a way that's relatable and identifiable, and makes people excited to get to know you better.
Just my 2c for this morning. :-) #GetFediHired #advice
Graham Downs /
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