- Definition
- Description of personal qualities
- Characteristic
- Description of business qualities
- Positive
- Negative
One of the guarantees of the success of any activity is the professionalism of the person involved in it, which is why it is so important to look at the business qualities of the employee. They allow you to understand what he is capable of and what you can entrust to him. It is advisable to analyze them when applying for a job; it is also important to remember about personal qualities, on which behavior with colleagues and management often depends. The list of both varies for different professions. They can change if necessary for career advancement.
Business qualities are extremely important when applying for a job
Definition
Business qualities are a person’s ability to perform functions if he has a certain level of knowledge, education, work experience and personality characteristics. Without identifying and assessing them, it is difficult to entrust him with the performance of duties and count on their high-quality performance.
There are different approaches to defining business and professional qualities. Some people tend to believe that an employee’s professional qualities are the least important. The most popular position is that professionals reveal in more detail the characteristics of a specialist’s properties. Business skills are universal qualities for different types of work.
Description of personal qualities
Personal qualities play no less important role than business qualities when applying for a job. Personal properties reveal the characteristics of a specialist as a person and show how he interacts with other people. Some of them are laid down from childhood, formed in the family, the other part develops in society, in school and student groups. Some personal characteristics can only be discovered during work; positive qualities can and should be developed to achieve professional goals.
Professional and personal qualities are important for work. They are reflected in the resume of a candidate for a position, often business ones follow from personal ones.
Given the same professional characteristics, the employer studies a list of personal characteristics. The applicant should strive to show the strengths of his character and personality in his resume so that the manager makes an objective choice.
Characteristic
An approximate list of personal qualities of an employee:
- honesty;
- communication skills;
- responsibility and integrity;
- hard work;
- politeness and tact;
- determination;
- flexibility and ability to accept someone else's point of view;
- self-criticism, the ability to see one’s mistakes and admit them;
- stress resistance.
- readiness for professional deformation.
This list shows positive properties; there are also negative aspects of personality that are easy to identify through the opposites of positive properties. It is difficult to find an ideal employee; everyone has these and other characteristics in different proportions.
Top 20 most popular personal qualities on a resume
How are personal qualities formed?
In the structure of personal qualities, there are both hereditary and qualities formed over time that characterize the personality. You can make a list consisting of four substructures-levels, under the influence of which specific personal qualities are formed.
- Temperament. The type of a person’s temperament depends on the functioning of his nervous system. Of the four types of temperament, each person usually has two main ones that are clearly expressed. Two different people can have the same personality quality, but they will manifest themselves differently because one of them is choleric and the other is phlegmatic. For example, creativity in a choleric person will be manifested by high creative activity and heightened emotional background. A phlegmatic person may be no less creative, but he will not make his ideas and emerging emotions public. The result will be the same, but the way to achieve it will be different.
- Mental processes. Their individual characteristics contribute to the development of personality traits associated with the level of development of perception, memory, will, thinking, sensations, and imagination. Features of logical operations of thinking form the way of mental actions, which also influence the formation of personality traits. For example, a person with developed strong-willed qualities is distinguished by purposefulness, high adaptability and stress resistance, and developed imagination and thinking contributes to the formation of ideology, enthusiasm and high creative activity. Developed logical thinking operations form the ability to quickly learn and assimilate information.
- Experience. Personal qualities are formed on the basis of a person’s habits, knowledge, abilities, skills established in the process of learning and practical activity. For example, they can contribute to the formation of accuracy, flexibility, delicacy, assertiveness, or asceticism, recklessness, and carelessness.
- Directionality. Based on the views, interests, beliefs, social attitudes, value orientations, moral principles and worldview of a person, personal social qualities are formed that characterize his attitude towards other people, the world as a whole, and are the driving force of his motivation and behavior. Direction forms the basis of the self-government mechanism. On the one hand, these are qualities such as tactfulness, altruism, selflessness, and gratitude. On the other hand, it is arrogance, vulgarity, imperiousness, and temper.
As you can see, the list consists of genetically determined qualities - this is the central core of personality (temperament and characteristics of mental processes). The formation of other qualities is determined by a person’s life in society (experience and orientation).
Description of business qualities
Business qualities for hiring can be classified on various grounds, including motivation, range of job responsibilities, focus on colleagues, management or contractors, time of acquisition of qualities.
One of the common and broad classifications is the division into positive and negative. They will be considered separately, since in different situations the same property can be good, but in another case turn out to be bad.
Also, some job characteristics are important for the boss, while others are important for the average specialist.
Positive
Among them are those that characterize the attitude towards work responsibilities:
- discipline;
- perseverance;
- independence in making individual decisions;
- self-learning;
- accuracy in working with documents;
- ability to plan and distribute your time;
- foresight;
- creativity;
- the ability to clearly formulate your thoughts;
- ability to make quick decisions.
Those that show the nature of relationships with others:
- ability to find a common language with clients;
- knowledge of business etiquette;
- ability to speak in public;
- ability to organize events;
- skill to work in team;
- ability to persuade;
- professional integrity;
- balance, striving for the golden mean.
The list is not exhaustive, but contains a basic set, which, if desired, can be supplemented with some personal qualities of the employee.
Negative
Definitely negative qualities:
- greed;
- quarrelsomeness;
- touchiness;
- envy;
- self-confidence and arrogance;
- arrogance;
- talkativeness and tendency to spread gossip;
- aggressiveness;
- manifestation of laziness;
- vindictiveness.
Some properties can be called negative under certain circumstances:
- hyperactivity;
- modesty;
- straightforwardness;
- emotionality.
Negative human qualities
A person's personal qualities can be innate
, and
purchased
.
Certain personality qualities are developed either under the influence of the environment and society ( upbringing
) or are a consequence
of self-education
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Many qualities, traits, behavioral characteristics, abilities, skills a person can develop, develop,
so
eradicate it
.
Of course, there are personality traits that are practically impossible to change, but you still shouldn’t hang “labels” (either on yourself or on others)!
A person can always, if not change radically, then at least learn to compensate for some of his qualities by developing others.
Negative human qualities
, which are undesirable and require correction, all together would form not just a large, but a huge list. Therefore, only a few of them are listed below:
- deceitfulness,
- hypocrisy,
- irresponsibility,
- contempt,
- coarseness,
- hot temper,
laziness,- despondency,
- sloppiness,
- rudeness,
- aggressiveness,
- hatred,
- intolerance,
- excessive selfishness,
- passivity,
- lack of will,
- indecision,
- touchiness,
- arrogance,
- cowardice,
- greed,
- greed,
- insensitivity,
- indifference,
- excessive self-criticism,
- envy,
- vindictiveness,
- sloppiness and many, many others.
All these personality traits give rise to corresponding behavior
Thus, a deceitful person lies to everyone all the time, a lazy and careless person is in no hurry to do his work, and an irresponsible person constantly lets himself and others down.
The presence of one or another negative quality spoils the life of the person himself and/or other people, but in any case, this is not a death sentence
. By working on yourself, you can improve the quality of your life, relationships with others, and become happier.
Reflection in the resume
When hiring, business and personal characteristics are taken into account first. Without knowing the person, an employer can only choose a suitable candidate based on a resume or interview. Sometimes the problem arises of which employee qualities are most suitable for a resume. The applicant makes a mistake if he lists them in large numbers without selecting the main ones related to the position. For the manager, this is a signal that he does not know how to isolate the necessary information.
The wording in the resume should be clear, concise, logical, and not inconsistent with the rest of the information. It is desirable that they reflect the strengths of the individual, so that from the text it is possible to trace the connection between business qualities and professional achievements.
Sometimes applicants for a position indicate in their resume not only their best sides, but also their worst. This can have two meanings: it demonstrates the person's honesty and shows his shortsightedness. It is advisable to note your shortcomings at the interview, where they will ask about them. It is important to emphasize the desire to correct your shortcomings.
An example of the correct beginning of a resume
Personality qualities
Film “Personal life: the joy of close relationships. The lesson is conducted by Prof. N.I. Kozlov and psychologist Marina Smirnova"
Practicing the Silovik condition.
Personality qualities are stable internal characteristics of a person, assessed positively. These are positive character traits, knowledge, skills and abilities. A broader category is personality traits, which includes both positive and other personality traits.
Classification of personality traits
There is an interesting classification: all qualities can be divided into two large categories: internal qualities (forming a person’s rich inner world), and external qualities (behavior and image), which form a beautiful sign.
By spiritual peace we mean those qualities that are not striking, but make a person a welcome guest in any company.
The trainer (curator) must have all these qualities developed and developed well. If you have a sagging sign but rich content, great, but who are you going to tell about it?
And if you have the brightest sign, but there is a problem with the content, then maybe they will come to you one day, but, alas, there won’t be a second time...
Qualities that make for a bright sign
- Artistry, ability to perform
- Beautiful appearance, ability to dress
- Delivered, clear speech
- Beautiful gestures
Qualities that work for rich content
- Positions of perception, the ability to look at a situation from different angles
- Ability to care for others
- The ability to think, freedom of thought. Thinking is not just a mental function, it is a personality quality that is not adequately developed in everyone and in this sense is not typical for some people.
- Positive outlook
- Wisdom
We have included some of the qualities that are characteristic of a developed personality and less common in mass individuals in the Self-Improvement section. We attributed to such traits positivity, constructiveness, responsibility, energy, determination, love of order, willingness to cooperate, as well as the ability and habit of living with love - unfortunately, these traits are clearly lacking at least in Russian people, both in workers and close relationships.
How to develop
Many of your personal qualities can be successfully developed by working with your body. In particular, making the necessary gestures (external gestures, and then internal gestures) develops the necessary personality qualities. There are many other methods of working on yourself, see - How to work on yourself
