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Just being a chameleon, able to work with everyone. If you have a personality that can easily work with someone in their 60’s or someone in their 20’s, they can put in you in just about any situation and you will survive.
You know how when you have a recurring problem on your computer, but when you call the IT guy over to reproduce it, it somehow works.
I’m that IT guy.
Every. Single. Time.
I really take my time to plan work , sounds stupid but if you actually plan the most efficient path it’s very valuable and means I get things done quicker and with better quality
Curiosity. I want to know everything about whatever I’m working on, I want to have full awareness. When something breaks down I want to know why. It’s a characteristic woefully underrepresented/underdemonstrated in corporate life.
Extremely high boredom threshold. Happy doing a lot of the incredibly boring but incredibly important admin that noone wants to do, especially high level/Director level admin that they hate but don’t want a minion to do. Throw it my way.
I’m very good at reading body language, and holding small talk conversations. It’s so handy especially in the corporate world, but not one I can brag about on a resume. It’s a “show, don’t tell” skill.
I learned from a former principal that if we saw problems we needed solved or issues we felt should be fixed, we need to bring possible solutions and ideas. I work with people who complain and wait for others to figure it out… while I’ve already got 5 ideas.
I show up at 110% and a good attitude every single day. i treat work like its my favorite sport. Im here to grow as a person and fucking win. Im so competitive with myself I often create efficiencies no one considered.
annnnnnnd thats why i started working for myself now!
I don’t mention it because I’m sure it can’t be sold in an interview/resume, but I build tools to use the tools. Sometimes mine, sometimes other teams.
A coworker on another team needs to click through 2000 pages to delete all of the data related to something because the interface is terrible? There’s a public API for this service or one that can easily reverse engineered? I’ll spend the unused time from my lunch breaks, downtime between tasks, and a few minutes at the end of the day building sometime so that task becomes 1 button press and seconds or minutes instead of hours.
At one job at a place that ran a bunch of online stores I was confused as to why they hired me. They were hiring programmers to do basic db changes. They were paying pretty well too. I built them basic crud tools to build the SQL they were writing and left after 3 months because there was nothing else and it was boring.
I can take one glance and have them nailed as a good person or not. Can I prove it? No, but you bet your last breath I’m voicing my opinion immediately and giving you a warning if they’re trouble or not.
Agency. I can articulate it somewhat on a resume, but everyone does to one degree or another so it’s difficult to stand out.
Steve Jobs said this thing one time, I can’t remember the quote exactly but it was along the lines of how freeing it is to realize the the whole world and all of its systems and processes were built by people who aren’t really any smarter than you are. I learned really early in my career that in most professional jobs, especially ones in an office setting, that you can just do things.
Everyone has this idea that you have to check with the right people or fill out a form or whatever in order to get or do the thing you need, when in reality, you can just do it or get it on your own. You don’t need to ask permission, you don’t need to have a meeting, you usually don’t need to bring it up at all, you can just do it.
Recognizing what I need to do, and just doing it has enabled me so many times to make strides that are normally much slower, and it has opened so many doors to other opportunities. See the whole board and just do it.
I have a good amount of common sense and critical thinking, I can call out future problems pretty early before they happen even in departments I dont work in 🤷🏽♂️
I’m fast and I can work while someone is talking to me. I had a coworker who just prattled on all the time at work. She wouldn’t get anything done. But I could continue working even with her noise.
Been telling people for years that i can read rooms like nobody’s business. Not in some creepy way… just always know when someone’s mentally checked out, when there’s tension, or when clients are about to ghost us even though they’re being polite. Found this out by accident—kept pulling coworkers aside after meetings like “dude, you seemed off today” and they’d be shocked i noticed. Or i’d tell my boss “we’re losing the Johnson account” based on pure vibes, and sure enough… rejection email three days later.
Thought everyone could do this shit but apparently not lol. friends would be like “how’d you know sarah was pissed?” and i’m thinking… wasn’t it obvious from her face?
Some career test told me this is “interpersonal intelligence”fancy way of saying you pick up on emotional cues without trying.
Now i use it strategically… suggest topic changes when meetings go nowhere, predict difficult questions based on body language. Can’t put “good at reading people” on a resume but it’s probably saved us tons of deals. Half of workplace drama could be avoided if ppl just paid attention to faces instead of only words tbh.
My ADHD allows me to see problems from all angles and come up with solutions no one has thought of. It’s like I’m a 3rd party observer instead of being inside the problem.
Not me but my husband: He is the hardest working person I know and has a borderline supernatural understanding of how stuff he fixes with his hands works.
Put him in any technical position, be it machine work, repair work, automotive, electronic, etc. and within 6 months he’s the fastest/most consistent technician and the “go to” guy for calls and help needed PLUS he will complete 3 jobs for every 1 the other technicians complete.
But if he puts that on a resume or mentions how good he is in a interview it just comes across as “Oh I’m amazing and wonderful and a super hero employee ”
Its true, I’ve seen him repeat this exactly at over 5 companies. Ive been there for the calls, I’ve been there for the praise from his current bosses, etc. But on paper he looks like a basic technician with no official training – which makes getting a new job difficult.
Being the unofficial office therapist 😂 somehow everyone ends up venting to me and I’m just sitting there like “girl I just came for my coffee.” But I swear it keeps the team sane and drama from blowing up.
I’m the one that makes friends with everybody. I know reddit is slanted towards “work is work and I dont get paid to socialize” but IMO a workplace full of people you like and hang out with is more productive than one where everyone is silent. It’s certainly a space I’d rather be in
Catching things people miss. It’s happened at every job I’ve been at. From a ram air turbine drag increase not being accounted for engine out glide distances (for decades and several aircraft), to a technician missing a broken item on a robot that almost went into a nuclear reactor that I noticed on a camera feed due to how the light was going through it.
Yea my career trajectory has been pretty crazy lol.
I take feedback really well. I work in customer service and can handle upset customers like no one else. It’s not on my resume, but I do mention it in interviews. But it is a skill you have to see in action to understand.
You know the type- “I don’t take bullshit, I’m the man, I’m going to bully anyone weaker, time to lean time to clean”
I just smile pleasantly and politely ignore them, quietly stand up to them, clearly protect others from them without escalating and in the moments their blood cools and they are receptive absolutely kill them with kindness and compassion.
I am pretty sure I contributed to one of them having a stroke, because once the tactics that worked so well for decades failed on me, they suddenly had to deal with a new reality and it broken them. He recovered, I helped build him back up, he’s the softest spoken nicest guy now I still keep in touch from time to time.
Villains arnt born, they are made. And they can be unmade. I had my own villian arch but I didn’t enjoy it, just learnt from it. Once you accept all the good and all the bad and just want everyone to get along and have a good time, most of the time, then the bullshit falls away.
I don’t need to be micromanaged. I’ve had multiple bosses tell me “I love that I can give you a task and leave it at that because I know you’ll get it done.” There’s no need to followup with me or hound me or check in. Just leave me alone and I get the job done. I love it, you love it, we’re all happy.
I’m going to go against the grain of the question a bit: your resume shouldn’t showcase your strengths. It should showcase the results you get (which may be due to your strengths). When you get to the interview, then talk about your strengths (and weaknesses).
If you have a hard time knowing what your strengths and weaknesses are, ask a trusted colleague (current or former) for help (not necessarily to give you the answer but to seed it; you’ll still need to introspect and come up with a plan on how to present it in an interview).
One skill you should develop is one I see frequently lambasted on Reddit: make friends with people you work with.Yes, but in my experience those places are few and far between. Honestly, making friends with colleagues is going to help you out far more than having the ideal resume and perfect interview skills. Are there toxic environments where this will blow up on you? But as Mark Twain once observed:
> if a cat sits on a hot stove, it won’t sit on a hot stove again. That cat won’t sit on a cold stove again, either. That cat just don’t like stoves.
I just get shit down quietly and pretty efficiently. I let those who want the spotlight have it, all I want is recognition in the way it matters for me.
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I shutup, do my job, and go home
I can get the work done in half the time it takes other people
Being an introvert
Just being a chameleon, able to work with everyone. If you have a personality that can easily work with someone in their 60’s or someone in their 20’s, they can put in you in just about any situation and you will survive.
You know how when you have a recurring problem on your computer, but when you call the IT guy over to reproduce it, it somehow works.
I’m that IT guy.
Every. Single. Time.
I always believed it’s the customer who pays my salary.
I don’t fake emotions. I am emotion.
I really take my time to plan work , sounds stupid but if you actually plan the most efficient path it’s very valuable and means I get things done quicker and with better quality
The Patience Level
Not procrastinating.
I’ve controlled the environment at my job even thought it’s toxic… it’s just less toxic than before.
Makes a good dip for the pot luck lunches.
Curiosity. I want to know everything about whatever I’m working on, I want to have full awareness. When something breaks down I want to know why. It’s a characteristic woefully underrepresented/underdemonstrated in corporate life.
Excel. It’s on the CV but most people lack the understanding to appreciate how useful a competent excel user really is.
Apparently I’m very likable and entertaining. The first quality is good the second is a little dangerous.
I thrive under pressure and can see clearly even just chaos. I’m not sure how or why. I’m just built this way, I guess.
Not insecure
Extremely high boredom threshold. Happy doing a lot of the incredibly boring but incredibly important admin that noone wants to do, especially high level/Director level admin that they hate but don’t want a minion to do. Throw it my way.
I’m very good at reading body language, and holding small talk conversations. It’s so handy especially in the corporate world, but not one I can brag about on a resume. It’s a “show, don’t tell” skill.
Except I’m telling all of Reddit right now 🤣🤫
I learned from a former principal that if we saw problems we needed solved or issues we felt should be fixed, we need to bring possible solutions and ideas. I work with people who complain and wait for others to figure it out… while I’ve already got 5 ideas.
Availability. Loyalty is another but that can have pros and cons.
Do mistake if you are not perfect
I know a little bit about almost everything. There’s very little i cant figure out pretty quick with 5 minutes of background information
I show up at 110% and a good attitude every single day. i treat work like its my favorite sport. Im here to grow as a person and fucking win. Im so competitive with myself I often create efficiencies no one considered.
annnnnnnd thats why i started working for myself now!
I don’t mention it because I’m sure it can’t be sold in an interview/resume, but I build tools to use the tools. Sometimes mine, sometimes other teams.
A coworker on another team needs to click through 2000 pages to delete all of the data related to something because the interface is terrible? There’s a public API for this service or one that can easily reverse engineered? I’ll spend the unused time from my lunch breaks, downtime between tasks, and a few minutes at the end of the day building sometime so that task becomes 1 button press and seconds or minutes instead of hours.
At one job at a place that ran a bunch of online stores I was confused as to why they hired me. They were hiring programmers to do basic db changes. They were paying pretty well too. I built them basic crud tools to build the SQL they were writing and left after 3 months because there was nothing else and it was boring.
My intuition is phenomenally sharp about people.
I can take one glance and have them nailed as a good person or not. Can I prove it? No, but you bet your last breath I’m voicing my opinion immediately and giving you a warning if they’re trouble or not.
Agency. I can articulate it somewhat on a resume, but everyone does to one degree or another so it’s difficult to stand out.
Steve Jobs said this thing one time, I can’t remember the quote exactly but it was along the lines of how freeing it is to realize the the whole world and all of its systems and processes were built by people who aren’t really any smarter than you are. I learned really early in my career that in most professional jobs, especially ones in an office setting, that you can just do things.
Everyone has this idea that you have to check with the right people or fill out a form or whatever in order to get or do the thing you need, when in reality, you can just do it or get it on your own. You don’t need to ask permission, you don’t need to have a meeting, you usually don’t need to bring it up at all, you can just do it.
Recognizing what I need to do, and just doing it has enabled me so many times to make strides that are normally much slower, and it has opened so many doors to other opportunities. See the whole board and just do it.
Whenever there’s an unpleasant or tedious-but-necessary task to do, I’m the first to put my hand up. I’ll do it.
I have GAS (give a shit.)
I have a good amount of common sense and critical thinking, I can call out future problems pretty early before they happen even in departments I dont work in 🤷🏽♂️
I’m fast and I can work while someone is talking to me. I had a coworker who just prattled on all the time at work. She wouldn’t get anything done. But I could continue working even with her noise.
Been telling people for years that i can read rooms like nobody’s business. Not in some creepy way… just always know when someone’s mentally checked out, when there’s tension, or when clients are about to ghost us even though they’re being polite. Found this out by accident—kept pulling coworkers aside after meetings like “dude, you seemed off today” and they’d be shocked i noticed. Or i’d tell my boss “we’re losing the Johnson account” based on pure vibes, and sure enough… rejection email three days later.
Thought everyone could do this shit but apparently not lol. friends would be like “how’d you know sarah was pissed?” and i’m thinking… wasn’t it obvious from her face?
Some career test told me this is “interpersonal intelligence”fancy way of saying you pick up on emotional cues without trying.
Now i use it strategically… suggest topic changes when meetings go nowhere, predict difficult questions based on body language. Can’t put “good at reading people” on a resume but it’s probably saved us tons of deals. Half of workplace drama could be avoided if ppl just paid attention to faces instead of only words tbh.
My ADHD allows me to see problems from all angles and come up with solutions no one has thought of. It’s like I’m a 3rd party observer instead of being inside the problem.
I’m very good at identifying paperwork problems. Unfortunately I’m not great at solving said problems.
I know how to tell people what they want to hear to diffuse them.
I bring people together. Make work fun. Am approachable at all times. Do my job and then some. Go out of my way to help others.
Developer – can talk to people.
Understanding what to do after it’s been explained to me once and that I go with the flow.
Not me but my husband: He is the hardest working person I know and has a borderline supernatural understanding of how stuff he fixes with his hands works.
Put him in any technical position, be it machine work, repair work, automotive, electronic, etc. and within 6 months he’s the fastest/most consistent technician and the “go to” guy for calls and help needed PLUS he will complete 3 jobs for every 1 the other technicians complete.
But if he puts that on a resume or mentions how good he is in a interview it just comes across as “Oh I’m amazing and wonderful and a super hero employee ”
Its true, I’ve seen him repeat this exactly at over 5 companies. Ive been there for the calls, I’ve been there for the praise from his current bosses, etc. But on paper he looks like a basic technician with no official training – which makes getting a new job difficult.
I have a knack for intimately learning and navigating systems. This works great for motors and computers.
I will back up the reasonable one no matter what
working in healthcare, i try to humanize my patients as much as i can and not sound like a robot and treat them like a number.
Being the unofficial office therapist 😂 somehow everyone ends up venting to me and I’m just sitting there like “girl I just came for my coffee.” But I swear it keeps the team sane and drama from blowing up.
I’m the one that makes friends with everybody. I know reddit is slanted towards “work is work and I dont get paid to socialize” but IMO a workplace full of people you like and hang out with is more productive than one where everyone is silent. It’s certainly a space I’d rather be in
Catching things people miss. It’s happened at every job I’ve been at. From a ram air turbine drag increase not being accounted for engine out glide distances (for decades and several aircraft), to a technician missing a broken item on a robot that almost went into a nuclear reactor that I noticed on a camera feed due to how the light was going through it.
Yea my career trajectory has been pretty crazy lol.
I take feedback really well. I work in customer service and can handle upset customers like no one else. It’s not on my resume, but I do mention it in interviews. But it is a skill you have to see in action to understand.
I crack em all, everywhere I’ve been.
You know the type- “I don’t take bullshit, I’m the man, I’m going to bully anyone weaker, time to lean time to clean”
I just smile pleasantly and politely ignore them, quietly stand up to them, clearly protect others from them without escalating and in the moments their blood cools and they are receptive absolutely kill them with kindness and compassion.
I am pretty sure I contributed to one of them having a stroke, because once the tactics that worked so well for decades failed on me, they suddenly had to deal with a new reality and it broken them. He recovered, I helped build him back up, he’s the softest spoken nicest guy now I still keep in touch from time to time.
Villains arnt born, they are made. And they can be unmade. I had my own villian arch but I didn’t enjoy it, just learnt from it. Once you accept all the good and all the bad and just want everyone to get along and have a good time, most of the time, then the bullshit falls away.
I don’t need to be micromanaged. I’ve had multiple bosses tell me “I love that I can give you a task and leave it at that because I know you’ll get it done.” There’s no need to followup with me or hound me or check in. Just leave me alone and I get the job done. I love it, you love it, we’re all happy.
I’m going to go against the grain of the question a bit: your resume shouldn’t showcase your strengths. It should showcase the results you get (which may be due to your strengths). When you get to the interview, then talk about your strengths (and weaknesses).
If you have a hard time knowing what your strengths and weaknesses are, ask a trusted colleague (current or former) for help (not necessarily to give you the answer but to seed it; you’ll still need to introspect and come up with a plan on how to present it in an interview).
One skill you should develop is one I see frequently lambasted on Reddit: make friends with people you work with.Yes, but in my experience those places are few and far between. Honestly, making friends with colleagues is going to help you out far more than having the ideal resume and perfect interview skills. Are there toxic environments where this will blow up on you? But as Mark Twain once observed:
> if a cat sits on a hot stove, it won’t sit on a hot stove again. That cat won’t sit on a cold stove again, either. That cat just don’t like stoves.
Self-restraint, that stops me bitch-slapping idiots
I can run the shit out of a meeting.
My meetings start and end on time, and I get stuff done. People also like my meetings and want to show up, so no-shows are much less of an issue.
Being handsome.
I can do all the field works and serve all my co-workers and heads what they want.
I just get shit down quietly and pretty efficiently. I let those who want the spotlight have it, all I want is recognition in the way it matters for me.
If you’re a manager, ability to communicate expectations clearly.
Grit, the ability to work through a variety of problems without breaking.