6 Attributes of a fresher’s right attitude which can lead to right skill

Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.- Hans Selye

When you start up a company, the two important arms of business are getting business and delivering good quality service/product simultaneously. Delivery of service/product is solely dependent upon the skill set of your team but is having a desired skill enough to deliver?

For a highly technical and senior position, skills and experience are overriding. But for a fresher who are yet to be trained, and to learn skills, attitude is certainly a major deciding factor. As they say, hire for attitude and train for skill.

What is right attitude? Well, it could be anything

·         Passion for the job/learning a new skills

·         Resilience

·         Ability to ask questions

·         Do the math

·         Ability to take criticism positively

·         Ability to be proactive

1.      Passion: If you are passionate about the new career you have chosen, you will find it easy to learn new skill sets and coping with the changing environment.

Takeaway: It's easier to be successful if you love what you're doing.

2.      Resilience: The key is to hold on. Don’t give up. You may be facing lot of difficulties but you need to find a way to dig in and keep going even when it seems everything is going against you.

Takeaway: Never give up. Today is hard, tomorrow could be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be what you have been waiting for.

3.      Ability to ask questions: How well do you ask questions? From my experience, most fresher fail to think about this issue. But asking questions effectively is a major underlying part of the learning process of a fresher— which suggests that it might be worth giving this attitude attribute a little more focus.

Takeaway: We get wise by asking questions, and even if these are not answered, we get wise, for a well-packed question carries its answer on its back as a snail carries its shell. - James Stephens

4.      Do the math: You need to know about your efficiency; productivity every hour. What you have learnt; how far you have come; where to go and how much time & effort, it will take to reach there. You should have this calculation going inside your head, if you really want to learn

Takeaway: It's hard to achieve success if you don't understand how it's measured.

5.      Ability to take criticism positively: If you don’t know how to accept criticism with grace and appreciation, it is almost impossible for you to learn a new skill. One could take criticism as hurtful and demoralizing, it can also be viewed in a positive way: it is honesty, and it can spur us to do better.

Takeaway: Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots. - Frank A. Clark

6.      Proactive: Being proactive at work not only boosts your self-esteem, but also gets to teach you skills real fast. When you are a proactive fresher, you seek to resolve your queries before they even become a problem. Being proactive is not limited to helping yourself, but others around you as well.

Takeaway: Real freedom is creative, proactive, and will take me into new territories. If I am not free if my freedom is predicated on reacting to my past. - Kenny Loggins

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