Interpersonal skills… team player… time management… motivation… commercial awareness… analytical skills. How many times have you heard these terms when researching career opportunities or preparing job applications? You might believe recruiters speak a different language, inventing terminology to throw applicants into a blind panic.
However, there is method in our madness. Once upon a time, senior management teams realised that the employees who remained happily in their organisations all demonstrated similar skills and behaviour. It makes sense, therefore, to look for individuals with these qualities to enable businesses to thrive. The ‘jargon’ you are hearing will not disappear the moment you accept a job offer. Most probably it will haunt you for the rest of your working life. At every performance review and interview for partnership, these criteria will appear but perhaps in a slightly different guise.
