Career survey: Which wins, "skills" or "servility and eagerness to show off"?!

2024-04-05 08:01:00, Aktualitet CNA

Career survey: Which wins, "skills" or "servility and eagerness

What does it take to make a career? It's a question that every professional has probably asked themselves at least once.

To measure the perception of its audience on this issue, "Monitor" organized a survey on its website and social networks.

For the question "What do you think are the most important skills to make a career?" we chose four alternatives and the survey result was fairly balanced between them.

28% of all participants in the survey answered that the most important in the career are the professional skills, but a very small margin, with 27% of the answers, the second most voted alternative was "Servilism and the ability to look".

24% of the participants said that the most important are "Communication skills", while 21% chose the alternative "Initiative and being creative".

Despite the fairly balanced results, what stood out to us from the results was a significant variation in responses, depending on the channel and type of audience.

In the survey conducted on the website and distributed on Facebook, the most voted alternative was clearly "Servility and the ability to look", with more than 34% of the votes, followed by "Professional skills", with less than 26 %.

In the survey conducted on Linkedin, the result was very different. "Serviceability and appearance" was the least chosen alternative, with 19% of the votes, while the most voted were "Professional skills", with 31% and "Communication skills", with 29% of the votes.

Of course, the point of view on this issue can be very subjective.

Career survey: Which wins, "skills" or "servility and eagerness

In a general public it is understandable that the stereotype that to make a career you have to be servile can be stronger.

In itself, this does not necessarily make the stereotype unfounded; however, a large proportion of people who have not achieved the desired promotion in their careers tend to think that this has not happened because they are not capable, but because their other colleagues have climbed the career ladder by showing zeal and servility to superiors, pretending to be able to appear more in their eyes, or taking credit for working more than they actually do.

The segment of professionals, (where most likely a good part of the voters are at high levels of the hierarchy of their companies), may be more inclined to express that the career depends on professional skills, communication or initiative; this point of view is also a form of self-evaluation for their achievements.

Each point of view can certainly have reasonable arguments: one can say that it is difficult to make a career without having real professional skills, without having ideas or the initiative to communicate and unfold them.

But, on the other hand, it is also true that the ability to gain the appreciation and trust of superiors is not only related to professional skills, but also to the relationship you manage to build with them.

Most managers tend to build more trust in those employees who appear obedient and diligent to carry out requests/orders or to value their image, more than in other employees who do not show the same diligence or attempt to question the decisions or authority of superiors./ Monitor.al