1.Attitude. You hear a lot about folks with “an attitude”. If you’ve got “an attitude”, lose it! Employers want employees with these attitudes:

·“Can do” attitude ·“I’m willing to risk failing to give it a go” attitude ·“I’m willing to apply myself and learn” attitude

Smart employers hire for attitude and train for skill.

2.Process Thinkers. Doing your work well used to be good enough. Now employers need workers that both do their work well and think about how they do their work simultaneously!

Do you ever perform a task more than once? Do you do it same way second time? Shame on you if you do! Think about what can be done:

·Faster ·With less effort ·Smarter

Then change how you do it. Your employer will love you for it!

3.Problem Solvers. Face it, we consume someone else’s product at work and produce a product for someone else. How well you manage chain above you and support chain below you effects how well company works. Employers want folks who know how they affect everyone else’s work and affect it positively.

Communicate clearly what you need from folks who produce product you use. Be receptive to needs of consumers of your product. You’re all working to accomplish same goal – make process as smooth as possible for everyone!

4.Emotional Intelligence. I rode subway to and from work in Washington, D.C. for over 20 years. If I had a nickel for every conversation I overhead about bickering, uncooperative co-workers, I’d never have to work another day in my life!

A. Ah, funny quiz. Lucky you! It's not often that a company has an official sense of humor that they are willing to display for all to read. This is going to be a great assignment for you!

A funny quiz is typically one where questions and answers have no real purpose other than to make quiz taker laugh. Although almost anything goes, there are some taboo subjects. Off hand I'd say that anything that pokes fun at a specific person, or groups of people, as well as anything that's anti-semitic, racial, sexual, political, or religious should be off limits. Remember, what one person thinks is funny can offend someone else. Even seemingly innocuous subjects like "hillbilly" or "redneck" jokes might not be funny to someone who lives in mountains or deep South (like I do).

You can think of a funny quiz as a series of one-liners with multiple-choice punch lines. Because you are writing for a company publication you have a built-in "affinity group" as there is bound to be some common subjects that are company related and could be made into something funny.