Personal attributes valued by employers.

The purpose of the questionnaire that we made was to find out what personal attributes are valued by employers. I have analysed the section of our questionnaire that asks the majority of the personal attribute questions. The other two sections of our questionnaire ask personal detail questions and questions that involve good working practices. With our questionnaire, we interviewed a range of different companies that include supermarkets and high schools. The section of the questionnaire that I analysed included both open questions and closed questions that help us find out exactly what we want from the interviewee which is what personal attributes are valued by their employer. I have analysed the results we gained with things such as graphs and pie charts to represent the findings. The results we gained were very similar.

There first question that I analysed is an open question that asks: ‘What skills do you feel you need to offer in your job role?’

With this question, we expect to receive answers that include some of the key job skills needed in the world of work including, organization, patience, motivation, co-operation, leadership skills, i.t skills and many more. 

The results we gained included: All of the above and more including excellent customer service, management and motivational skills, responsibility, risk taker and more. All of the findings can be found in the graph below.

Some of the same skills have been said by more than one employee which suggests that those skills must be valued by their employer. The most common skills that the employees felt that they need to offer in their job roles are good communication, motivation, customer service and patience as three interviewees said them.

According to our results, the least common skills needed to offer in their job roles are good knowledge, good training, interpersonal skills, literacy skills, leadership and risk taking as only one of the interviewees answered with them.

The next question we asked was a closed question that asks: ‘Do you feel respected in work?’

As you can see from the results 6 of the 7 people interviewed answered yes they do feel respected at work. 1 interviewee answered that they feel respected at work sometimes, and nobody interviewed feels they are disrespected at work. This suggests that the majority of the interviewees who answered that they do feel respected enjoy their job and are perhaps motivated by being respected. However, the interviewee who answered that they only feel respected at work sometimes may not enjoy their job as much and may not be motivated at all.

We then went on to ask another open question that sees the interviewees say that their employer expects them to produce things such as decision making in meetings, monitoring’s of efficiency and effectiveness in the work place and to maintain good standards of work. The question we asked was ‘What does your employer expect you to produce in your job role?’ As you can see from the results that we got in the graph above, there wasn’t a single answer used twice. Every employer gave a different answer to what their employer expects them to produce in their job role. This shows us that all of the interviewees’ companies and employers have different expectations on what they want their employees to produce.

The next question that we asked is another open question that asks ‘In your job role, what does your employer expect you to be organized in?’

We received answers including making sure that departments are run well and safely, being organized in general workloads including e-mails, managing employees and time effectively.

 

The most popular are in which the interviewees employers expect them to be organized in is time management as three of the interviewees answered it. The second most popular areas to be organized in are in their general workload and managing other employees. These two were answered twice by the interviewees. All of the other answers received one vote each. The most popular area to be organized in – time management can range from things such as managing the amount of time spent on work or the setting of priorities.

We then went on to ask a few more closed questions.

As you can see from the ‘Do you use ICT effectively in work?’ question, almost everybody interviewed said yes, except the one who said sometimes. This shows us that all of the interviewees need to use ICT in their place of work and that they have the acquired the ICT skills in order to use it effectively.

The next question asked: ‘Do you feel you work better in a group?’ This question does not apply for one of the interviewees because as they are a manager they have responsibilities of their own where they have to work and produce work alone, however they also have to work as part of a team to motivate and be a role model to fellow workers. So with this question, this interviewee could answer both yes and no, therefore it is not applicable to them. Other than this, 4 interviewees answered yes that they feel they do work better in a group, 1 interviewee said that they don’t and 1 said that they sometimes work better in a group.

 

The next two questions asked:

‘Does your employer expect you to have good leadership skills?’ and ‘Do you feel like you could drive and lead a team?’ 100% of the employees interviewed agreed with both questions which tells us that the different companies and employers expect pretty much the same thing out of their employees.

In conclusion, the questions that I have reviewed shows that the employer expects a number of key attributes from the employee including skills such as IT and Literacy skills, to be organized and many more.