Vessel Sale & Purchase
Purchasing
Bid/Proposal Development
Must haves:
- An ability to grow and advance personally and professionally
- Work that is ethical and moral
- Work and an environment that is fun
- Work that ultimately involves leadership or authority over others
- Having influence and an ability to act on it
- Working with people that I personally like and respect and with whom I can get along
- An abilityto be innovative, original, imaginative, or creative
Nice to haves:
- An ability to maintain a balanced lifestyle
- Work that is frequently changing
- Having considerable freedom over how a job is done, with little or no interference, direction, or supervision from others
- Feelings of personal pride, accomplishment or success for completed work
- Working with others as a means of enhancing productivity
- Work that gives me status, prestige or social approval
- Work that demands a high degree of mental activity in the form of studying, learning, researching, investigating, understanding, analyzing or problem solving
Note: Values such as financial rewards, job security, environmental surroundings - though important - are somewhat negotiable. In short, I'd rather pursue satisfying work even if the resultant means lower pay than financially rewarding work that I absolutely hate. However, I protect myself by pursuing only companies that are ethical and moral enough to recognize the value I bring to their organizations and that compensate me accordingly.
Creative Production
Enterprise Control
Managing People and/or Relationships
Influence Through Language and Ideas
Theory Development and Conceptual Thinking
Counseling and Mentoring
Quantitative Analysis
Note: Though quantitative analysis lies at the bottom, I must stress that the majority of my professional work has consisted of substantial numerical-based analysis such as financial, logistics, and statistical analysis. Ultimately, I'd like to see myself leave the analytical role as I feel that I can add a considerable amount of higher value to an organization through my my strategic/marketing development abilities.
Leading/Managing
Teamwork
Leveraging (resources)
Multi-focus
Action-oriented
Communication (verbal/written)
Power-orientation
Confidence
Creatitivity
Critical Thinking
Sociability
Quantitative Analysis
Quick Thinking
Note: Again, though skills such as critical thinking or quantitative analysis rank amongs my lower skills, that is not to say they are weak in themselves. The application of my higher-level skills will simply add more value to the organization that I work for.
The amount of precendence organizations continue to place on technical skills alone continues to stagger me. Technical skills can be taught and, for someone with a certain degree of emotional intelligence, taught fast. However, in today's economy, the success of an organization ultimately depends on the people leading the company. And the one commonality that almost every successful and sustainably successful organization possesses are leaders with a high degree of emotional intelligence. It isn't all too uncommon to find leaders of exceptionally high I.Q. who have the greatest difficulty in communicating to their organizations diplomatically.