2006-09-03 21:06:21 · 9 answers · asked by Chuck Dhue 4 in Business & Finance ➔ Careers & Employment
remember, you are not the only person working at the company.
Besides technical ability or professional knowlege, you need people skills. Getting along with different personality types, cooperation, congeniality, etc. as as much required for professional success as other qualifications.
If you can't get along with people, or for whatever reason, they don't get along with you, then you are NOT the most qualified person for the job.
2006-09-03 21:15:39 · answer #1 · answered by Piggiepants 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When a person promotes another person they generally do it because according to their judgement this is the best person for the job. Now this may be a flawed viewpoint of the boss. Also simply because you are better educated or have been at the job longer does not necessarily mean you are better qualified. The boss may know things about the other person that you do not know that makes them better qualified. And we all know that looks count also, promptness, getting the job done, bringing in the money, etc. Being liked may be a very important aspect of promotion to another better position because it may require the input and help of others who will find it difficult to work with someone who is not well liked working in that position. There is a great deal more to promoting someone I have learned working and sometimes it is not correct and not fair. Often it is related to survival of the boss. I have been kept in other positions because I was reliable whereas the other person would have left if they were not promoted and there was a shortage of people. Eventually the other person was fired and I quit because the boss made the same mistakes of promoting the newer less qualified person to try to keep a warm body at work. So the boss in their poor judgement lost not just one bad person but lost also a very good employee because the bosses did not support nor promote the better employees. It is not easy to be a boss because I have been one also not just an employee. I have seen it from both sides. If it is that bad and you are that good then begin putting in applications elsewhere. Also get some self help books to see if you can find why you are being passed over books like the gentle art of self defense can help with people skills.
2006-09-04 04:14:42 · answer #2 · answered by Faerieeeiren 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
an essential part of any job is being able to get along with other people and being like by them... so i say you would have to be outrageously the most qualified to overcome not being liked...
2006-09-04 04:10:48 · answer #3 · answered by Jesters Deadd 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It always didn't matter. People hire other people who they like after interviews because they have to work with you. If they don't like you then you will most likely argue with them, making their lives difficult. Nobody hires a person because they will make their job harder
2006-09-04 04:11:26 · answer #4 · answered by ken 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Being the most qualified never really mattered. You must be a "team" player and by that, it means you must be likeable...
2006-09-04 04:10:50 · answer #5 · answered by locowherto 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think both are important bot howmuch you are liked will not excuse you if you did not do your job right .. well and if you are not liked then whatever hard you'll work is just not enough
best advice try to be charming with everyone .. you'll always get what you want
2006-09-04 05:26:57 · answer #6 · answered by Ramrum 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As a career coach once told me... people hire people they like, and in order for people to like you, you must like yourself.
Besides, if you are not liked... you will probably not be happy working there.
2006-09-04 04:15:09 · answer #7 · answered by elle_meno1 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would never hire someone I don't like. Especially if they look like a douchebag.
2006-09-04 04:23:40 · answer #8 · answered by Lil b 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
agree.
2006-09-04 04:11:23 · answer #9 · answered by ash 7 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋