{"id":931,"date":"2012-10-11T14:19:23","date_gmt":"2012-10-11T18:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/~career\/blog\/?p=931"},"modified":"2022-12-08T12:12:33","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T16:12:33","slug":"what-employers-want","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/career-center\/what-employers-want\/","title":{"rendered":"What Employers Want"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/~career\/images\/Blogimages\/JobFair1011.jpg\" alt=\"Employers and Students at Job Fair\" width=\"415\" height=\"240\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So you want a job or an internship.\u00a0 You have worked hard, polished your resume and ironed your job fair shirt.\u00a0 So now what? What is the secret to what employers really want?<\/p>\n<p>Keep to the basics.\u00a0 Employers seek people who present themselves well, are well informed and are interested in being actively involved.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few strategies on sending the right message at the fair and afterwards:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/~career\/job_fair\/\">Prepare<\/a>: Know who is coming and with whom you want to talk and share your resume &amp; skills.<\/p>\n<p>Dress: to signal you want to work and be taken seriously.<\/p>\n<p>Practice: introducing yourself, your skills and interests.<\/p>\n<p>Positive &amp; Personable: Remember employers are people. Start a conversation and show your interest in what they do for a living.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\">Follow Through<\/a>: Persistence pays. \u00a0Collect business cards and follow up via email or LinkedIn.<\/p>\n<p>It is all in the conversation!\u00a0 Keep learning, practicing and exploring the avenues for your job journey.<\/p>\n<p><em>~Holly<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So you want a job or an internship.\u00a0 You have worked hard, polished your resume and ironed your job fair shirt.\u00a0 So now what? What is the secret to what employers really want? Keep to the basics.\u00a0 Employers seek people who present themselves well, are well informed and are interested in being actively involved. Here &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/career-center\/what-employers-want\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What Employers Want&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":832,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[127021,128337,128680,16890,129271,129667,6901,1],"tags":[116804,131420,132056,132835,133173,542,603,135537,135871,46457,138816,569,528],"class_list":["post-931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-career-exploration","category-dress-to-impress","category-employer-advice","category-event","category-helpful-resources","category-job-searching","category-networking","category-uncategorized","tag-advice","tag-career","tag-career-path","tag-employers","tag-etiquette","tag-events","tag-how-to","tag-job-fair","tag-job-search","tag-jobs","tag-networking","tag-photos","tag-tips","entry"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"career","author_link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/career-center\/author\/career\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/career-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/career-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/career-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/career-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/832"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/career-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/career-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2640,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/career-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931\/revisions\/2640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/career-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/career-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/career-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}