{"id":4011,"date":"2023-11-20T01:49:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-20T06:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=4011"},"modified":"2023-10-27T07:59:11","modified_gmt":"2023-10-27T12:59:11","slug":"two-essentials-for-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2023\/11\/two-essentials-for-employees\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Essentials for Employees"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>There are two essentials for an employee. Given the job market, it appears that the great majority of employers don&#8217;t understand these essentials.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have been on both sides of the hiring and being hired world. I find two and only two essentials:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Job skills<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Work ethic<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Okay, that&#8217;s it. Next?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The trouble is, it is quite troublesome to determine these two in a job applicant. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are &#8220;tests&#8221; that employers want to give to job applicants. It is unfortunate that some employers&#8217; &#8220;tests&#8221; are actual work they need accomplished. The test is a way to have an applicant work for free. Most applicants don&#8217;t know this. Those who do understand how this works are happy to bribe employers to have a chance at a job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The work ethic part is more difficult to determine. Yes, this person knows who to do the job, but do they arrive on time? Do they work a full day? Does it take them an hour to sit and start working? Do they spend most of the day running a football pool? There are many questions that attempt to measure work ethic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sigh. This ought to be easier. Sorry. It isn&#8217;t. Still, come back to these two things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips There are two essentials for an employee. Given the job market, it appears that the great majority of employers don&#8217;t understand these essentials. I have been on both sides of the hiring and being hired world. I find two and only two essentials: Okay, that&#8217;s it. Next? The trouble is, it is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[335,271,7,26,421,235,67],"tags":[336,272,130,148,422,236,187],"class_list":["post-4011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics","category-jobs","category-judgment","category-multitasking","category-remote-work","category-testing","category-work","tag-ethics","tag-jobs","tag-judgment","tag-multitasking","tag-remote-work","tag-testing","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4011"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4012,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4011\/revisions\/4012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}