Interview Tip #21

Brian Fink
1 min readJun 1, 2022

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How will you use these skills to tell your story as a leader?

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Leadership skills can help you in all aspects of your career, from applying for jobs to seeking career advancement.

One of the many soft skills that employers value, leadership often incorporates several different personality traits and communication abilities that are useful for anyone to learn and practice over time.

What are leadership skills?

Leadership skills are skills you use when organizing other people to reach a shared goal. Whether you’re in a management position or leading a project, leadership skills require you to motivate others to complete a series of tasks, often according to a schedule. Leadership is not just one skill but rather a combination of several different skills working together.

Some examples of skills that make a strong leader include:

✌️ Patience

✌️ Empathy

✌️ Active listening

✌️ Reliability

✌️ Dependability

✌️ Creativity

✌️ Positivity

✌️ Effective feedback

✌️ Timely communication

✌️ Team building

✌️ Flexibility

✌️ Risk-taking

✌️ Ability to teach and mentor

How will you use these skills to tell your story as a leader?

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Brian Fink
Brian Fink

Written by Brian Fink

Executive Recruiter. ✈ #ATL ↔ #SF ✈ Building companies is my favorite. Opinions are my own. Responsibility is freedom. 🖖

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