What do you have to offer to an employer?

What do I want to receive from a potential employer? While you are job hunting you focus quite a bit on what you want when you find a job. If you are long term unemployed you probably just want a job that pays enough to cover your bills. But if you have just begun your search, you think about benefits like time off, health care, tuition reimbursement and potential growth with the company. And that’s great but the person who will be interviewing you will be wondering exactly what you have to offer to their company.

What do you have to offer? Is it experience, or maybe education or maybe you helped your previous company save money from one of your ideas. You have to make sure that the interviewer knows all this either from your resume or from the interview itself. What if you don’t have anything to offer or at least you don’t think you do. Then you need to think harder because everyone can contribute something if you feel that you have nothing to offer then the interview wouldn’t be too successful.  Take time before the interview and write down accomplishments that you have had or experience that might be useful. You may not think that it amounts to much but everything counts.

Remember that during an interview the focus really needs to be on what you can offer the company not the over way around.

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