5. Team Oriented

Employers look out for people that can work and contribute in a team. People that can fit well in a team work, because team work can lead to effectiveness and work will be done on time.

4. Passion

Although, one cannot totally remove the monetary aspect of working for an organization. After all, why waste years in the University and end up not being paid, but also there is a place for passion and drive for what one is doing. With passion a staff can achieve more things because the love for the job is there. Employers look out for such people that have love for what they do, because they deliver the best.

3. Competence

Competence is very important in one’s career; it is the foundation of career growth. Over time work load has increased, managers or chief executives don’t have time to supervise their staffs. Due to that, they need candidate that can carry out their work without being micromanaged. They need someone that can carry out the job very well.

2. Creativity

Most companies are looking for new ideas, new ways for carrying out tasks. For most of the top companies to stay in business they have to continue to strive for new innovation to enable them compete with their rivals and to stay at the top of their business.

Therefore, they look for candidates that have something creative to bring to the table to employ.

1. Resilience

These are people that don’t give up easily. They see the positive side to things, they view their problem in an optimistic manner. They see the big picture in every situation. They might fail but they get back right in track and continue to strive to get their desired result. These set of people are those people employers look out for in order to hire.

Human resource personnel receives series of job applications on a daily basis. The truth is that they don’t have the time to go through all the job applications, so the selection starts from your cover letter to your CV.

In addition, hiring new employees can be both time consuming and costly for businesses. Not only must businesses work to retain as many hard-working personnel as possible, they also work to make good hiring decisions to avoid a loss when it comes to the training of new hires.

There are certain qualities companies look for when hiring new employees, which often can be discovered in the first interview.

The qualities are listed below:

Source: Career.com.ng

femi4:
Not in Nigeria, you are expendable if you don't have connection

You are expendable if you are not related to the CEO.

You are expendable when the coy no longer make profit

You are expendable even if the CEO is your brother or have all the right connection when you lack competence except you are not handling sensitive position. On the other hand you are unexpendable when you are making profit for the company, when you ideas are what moving the company to the next level even if you are the son of nobody.

I used to believe this "No connection no job" mentality but i have seen people over and over again with no connection get good high paying jobs just because they have what it takes to do the job. Even the people with connection the kind of jobs they give them are no sensitive positions, jobs that anybody can do that don't really require much skill. Every company is set up to make profit except NGO's, so i don't think any CEO would want to employ his brother for a position that's key to their business success when he know that his brother lack the skill and the competence to manage the position.

Another to keep in mind is that your skill and competence can get you a job but that's not enough to take your far in your career. This why networking is a key in career success, you need to be able to create good relationship with the right people..

cnzesinachi:
All these are tips to retaining your job but not in Diamond Bank.

I believe every organisation has a system for layoff workers, what is the way to retain your job at Diamond Bank?

butanep:
All the messages just to retain your job. There is more to life than your job jare. You should have time to relax, socialise, exercise and go on vacations.

Nigerians put too many emphasis on jobs and yet nothing meaningful comes out... We are still 90% dependent on the white who work for less hours.


The sure way of retaining your job is by getting your own job. Gbam.

In as much as entrepreneurship is good but not everybody are born to be business owners...

femi4:
After all these, downsizing will still affect you cos you are expendable

Every employee are expendable when their value depreciate, while some employee are asset. Companies will always keep their asset.

kopite:
With all these knowledge n practices applied people
Will still get fired once there is business or economic recession.

People get fired when there is recession but some people still get to keep their jobs or are even promoted..

9. Always know that small things count

Small things like: Saying thank you, congratulate others when needed, be punctual, be neat, be tidy, never start a fight.

Predominantly, be prepared for the worst. It’s quite difficult to realize after doing all these, one might still lose his or her job, so this is why you have to be ready to survive if the worst happens.

Try to attend business meetings, exchange contacts, create good network. Update your LinkedIn profile and some other professional social media platforms and have a good savings for the rainy days. All these will be needed if perhaps you may need to start your own business.

8. Understand the company’s culture

Understand the company’s culture, what the organization holds very important, try to work in accordance to the culture.

For example: If the organization stresses the need for attending a meeting, or a business function, kindly attend the meeting or business function.

7. Brand yourself

Try to brand yourself in a productive way by sending out articles to people in the organization that you know will find it useful, volunteer to be part of a committee that a senior colleague is on, express your opinion when appropriate in the meeting.

6. Learn how to manage your boss

Make an effort to understand your management style of communication and need, try to relate with this need and meet the need of the management. Make your management job easier by looking for effective ways to work with the management.

5. Expand your Network

Like the saying goes, “It’s not your boss who protects your job, it’s your boss’s boss”. Relationship with higher managers are important during this period. During layoffs, it’s a joint effort to compile list of people to be laid-off. If other departments see you as useful, they will stand up for you. Therefore, expand your network and develop good relationship with them.

4. Have a positive attitude

During layoff, people that are seen as difficult, less friendly people, rebellious people are easily gotten rid of. On the other hand, the friendly ones, cooperative, helpful ones are usually retained because they have the positive vibes to things and people.

3. Match your goals with the organization’s goal

Your job security increases if your goal matches the organizations priorities. Try to spend time on things the organization care about. Try to take part in the organization’s most important projects. Concentrate on the task the management see as high priority.

2. Have a variety of skills

Management moves staffs from one department to the other during staff layout, the essence of this is to keep the best staff. Try to be useful in different department and have a variety of skills, because if you have a narrow set of skills your usefulness gets reduced and also get ready to accept roles that are outside your regular job description.

1. Update your skills and knowledge

During staff layoff, management will be quick to let go of staffs that their skills are outdated and they have nothing new to offer, no new idea to bring to move the company forward. One will be seen as useless to the company.

Therefore, it is best to look for new ideas, new ways to go about your job description that will be productive. Acquire new productive skills and make sure the management is aware of these efforts.

With the harsh economic crisis, the country is undergoing, many multinational companies; banks and indigenous companies are looking for ways to cut down expenditure due to the fact the economy is not conducive. This indirectly means laying off some of the staffs in the company in order to adjust the company’s budget.

Intellectually, you understand downsizing is not a personal decision but it’s the law of commerce; thanks to the troubled economy but your heart beat increases at the mention of “LAYOFF”. This makes it hard for you to be proactive. You don’t have to panic but rather face the reality and look for ways to keep your job.

Like the saying goes “hard times calls for desperate measures”. As an employer in an organization, one has to be proactive and be smart about saving your job especially this period of massive layoff in the job sector of the economy.

Here are some useful tips on how to save your job during a layoff

Source: Career.com.ng

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I have seen people with 2.2 even with a CGPA of less than 3. get jobs that requires only 2.1. I would advise you to take professionally courses in your discipline in other to improve your skills and also apply for those 2.1 jobs.

9. Take the initiative of sending a follow-up email to the company at least a week after you submitted your application. This will create a serious impression of you in their mind in the midst of the multitude application sent to them.

8. Try to dedicate enough time towards the searching of jobs on all media because your chance of finding a job largely depends on it.

7. It’s advisable to always check all media system where they place job vacancy regularly. Register with the newsletter of website that are into job advertisement so that you will get recent update of job vacancy, ensure to indicate the type of jobs you are interested in to avoid being sent ads that are not relevant to you.

6. Ensure you address and submit your application to the HR department which is responsible for recruitment of new employee excerpt they state otherwise in their advertisement. Those to the large volume of application employer receive, it's better you apply on time to increase your chance of your application to be viewed.

5. Your cover letter should be outstanding when “blowing your trumpet”, for this is the only document that you have the right to talk about yourself to an employer. When applying through an email ensure you include your cover letter details in the body of your email, but if through physical submission of document you can do it separately.