1. Tom Jordan
BTEC National Diploma IT
28/09/2011
Personal attributes valued by employers
Attribute Importance to Employers
General
Organisation Skills Deals with your ability to design, plan,
organise, and implement projects and
tasks within an allotted timeframe. Also
involves goal-setting.
Team Work Because so many jobs involve working
in one or more work-groups, you must
have the ability to work with others in a
professional manner while attempting
to achieve a common goal.
Attitude
Creativity Involves the ability to find solutions to
problems using your creativity,
reasoning, and past experiences along
with the available information and
resources.
Independence Employers expect their workers to be
able to work independently if need.
Work load is an Important factor to
take into account for workers, so being
able to work alone and produce a good
standard is vital.
Job specific
Health and Safety Health and safety in the workplace is a
vital necessity to everyone so
employers expect their workers to be
trained to a good level and to take into
account H&S when working.
Knowledge of Computer Security When working in a company their
workers have to be aware of Security
data theft is the most commonly found
security breach as employees details
are store on company’s computers.
TechnicalKnowledge This is something that employers will
look for when employing anyone. They
will except you to have at least a

2. Tom Jordan
BTEC National Diploma IT
28/09/2011
vague knowledge of what you are
applying for .