what employers want. cooperativeness: a willingness to work well with everyone else on the job to...

What Employers Want

Cooperativeness:

• A willingness to work well with everyone else on the job to reach a common goal

How can yoube cooperative?

• Do tasks you don’t like without complaining.

• Do your fair share of a job.

• Pitch in to help a coworker.

• Volunteer to help coworkers meet a deadline or reach a goal.

Be willing to follow directions.

• Stop whatever you are doing and listen to the directions being given.

• Listen carefully.

• Take notes.

• Identify the goal of the task.

• Ask questions!

Have a willingness to learn.

• Look for opportunities.

• Get more training.

• Don’t pretend to know something you don’t.

• Again, ask questions.

Have initiative.

• Do what needs to be done without being told to do it.

Be responsible.

• Demonstrate the willingness to accept an obligation and to be accountable for an action or situation.

Loyalty

• How do you show loyalty at work?How do you show loyalty at work?

Be positive.Be positive.

Look for solutions.Look for solutions.

Keep critical comments to Keep critical comments to yourself.yourself.

*You are part of a team. Work together.*You are part of a team. Work together.