{"id":1919,"date":"2013-12-16T21:46:14","date_gmt":"2013-12-17T05:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/careersingovernment.com\/tools\/?p=1919"},"modified":"2013-12-16T21:48:27","modified_gmt":"2013-12-17T05:48:27","slug":"attitude-everything-public-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.careersingovernment.com\/tools\/gov-talk\/career-advice\/on-the-job\/attitude-everything-public-sector\/","title":{"rendered":"Attitude is Everything in the Public Sector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.careersingovernment.com\/tools\/gov-talk\/career-advice\/on-the-job\/attitude-everything-public-sector\/attachment\/positive-attitude-public-sector\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1921\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-1921\" alt=\"positive.attitude.public.sector\" src=\"https:\/\/www.careersingovernment.com\/tools\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/positive.attitude.public.sector.jpg\" width=\"358\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.careersingovernment.com\/tools\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/positive.attitude.public.sector.jpg 448w, https:\/\/www.careersingovernment.com\/tools\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/positive.attitude.public.sector-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.careersingovernment.com\/tools\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/positive.attitude.public.sector-298x300.jpg 298w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 358px) 100vw, 358px\" \/><\/a>I was training a group of public agency managers the other day and asked them the question, \u201cprovided you had the option for a pool of prospective employees, all with baseline qualifying skills, and could choose between one with extraordinary skills and knowledge or one with a demonstratable great work attitude, which would you choose?\u2019\u00a0 The overwhelming choice was the employee with a great attitude toward work.\u00a0 I heard stories from experienced managers who told of greatly skilled and experienced employees that were \u201cprojects\u201d and \u201cproblems\u201d to their supervisors\/managers instead of \u201cproducers\u201d. \u00a0They told of how, in every case, their best employees had always great work attitudes. There are high expectations of Public agency employees. In the public sector, managers, and all employees for that matter, are under great scrutiny, and rightfully so, from decision makers and the public to provide a high level of effectiveness while spending public money.<\/p>\n<p>You see, from a manager\u2019s perspective, skills and knowledge can be trained, but great work attitude is something that is a rarity. \u00a0An employee with a great work attitude is simply easier to manage. He\/she doesn\u2019t complain about the work, instead embraces it, makes the most of it.\u00a0 Great work attitude seeks to be effective, doesn\u2019t misuse leaves, likes what they do and works to make their supervisor\/manager successful.\u00a0 Reliable, productive, team-player, conscientious, one who stimulates good in the workplace are terms that describe this individual. This attitude, as told by managers, yields the \u201cbest employee\u201d designation, the go-to person, the model.\u00a0 Consequently this relates to an overall positive career vector, if applied over time. \u00a0And remember, this career vector is not because of superior skills or knowledge, its simply because of attitude toward work.<\/p>\n<p>So what does this mean to you, who may be seeking employment in public sector? These days the public sector jobs are some of the most stable and well-compensated careers out there.\u00a0 These jobs are worth you checking your own work attitude. Managers are clamoring for not just good employees, but great ones.\u00a0 Its attitude that makes the difference to them.\u00a0 Come to your interview looking to give them what they <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">need<\/span> in an employee.\u00a0 Look for ways to talk not only about your skills and knowledge, but your attitude about work.\u00a0 Give them an assurance in so many words how you look at work, and how you are there to add value. This may require that you first do some sole-searching yourself, asking yourself just what kind of an employee you are.\u00a0 Whose interests do you have in mind while being paid for your work? How can you adopt the philosophy of every day adding value to your workplace and shunning negativity or unproductive complaining, being a positive example and even an agent of positive change in your workplace?<\/p>\n<p>If you can adopt such a work philosophy, get that across in an interview and apply it liberally to your work, it may not only get you the job, but may very well mean you are on an upward vector with your entire career. You, your employer and the Public all win by you adopting a great workplace attitude!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was training a group of public agency managers the other day and asked them the question, \u201cprovided you had the option for a pool of prospective employees, all with baseline qualifying skills, and could choose between one with extraordinary skills and knowledge or one with a demonstratable great work attitude, which would you choose?\u2019\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":306,"featured_media":1921,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[41,7],"class_list":["post-1919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-on-the-job","tag-career-advice-2","tag-government-work"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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