Job Seekers Challenge... Improve Your Resume Listening Skills

Former U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk once said, “One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears – by listening to them.” If you want to increase your chances of getting the best job, be a better listener According to Knowledgeable experts we communicate during 80% of our waking hours. How do we communicate? Communication authority and former Executive Director of the International Listening Association Dr. Lyman K. Steil has found that 9% of our communicating time involves writing, 16% is used to read, 30% is used speaking to others, and the largest segment, 45%, involves listening. All of us were taught reading, writing, and speaking skills, but how many people are ever given formal training in listening, the communicating skill you use most frequently? According to numerous university studies, the average person’s immediate recall of a spoken message is only 50%, and that falls off to only 25% within forty-eight hours.

Most managers and executives love to talk about their companies and themselves. When you listen, you acquire knowledge, and knowledge gives you power. It allows you to channel your marketing efforts to emphasize how your acquired skills will help a company to solve their problems and contribute to growth and profits. It helps the employer see you as a better “fit” for their specific organizational culture. As the word of God states, "Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry."

Ideas to improve your Active Listening Skill:

• Learning to listen is an important skill. You can improve your Active Listening Skills just as you improve any other skill.
• Active Listening is important because you can learn new information through listening. Listening also includes paying attention to the person speaking, so you can also pick up on body language, gestures, expressions, and other non-verbal clues to help you understand what they are saying.
• Active Listening is also polite, and it helps you to get along with other people.
• Active Listening is a virtue, something that not everyone has. It gives you an insight of other person’s thoughts and their behavior and which in turn makes dealing easy with them.
• Active Listening can help people reason with them and deal better with their emotions. And the most important of all it gives you other persons perspective of the problem or the situation.
• Active Listening is vital, if you wish to live life to its fullest,.
• If you are a good listener, you should find it quite easy to establish positive great job opportunities, working relationships with bosses, clients, as well as colleagues.

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