How would you answer this

[Wayne County Hose]

If you put safety at the bottom of that list for a concrete block company, I guarantee you will not get the job. I will bet a months mortgage on it.

 

[Tig]

None of these items are lesser priorities but based on your question and my job and my employer, the emphasis is;

Customer Satisfaction
Attendance
Professional Attitude and Appearance
Honesty
Safety

By the way, I work at home and each year I have mandatory safety training tailored to my job as well as my industry. We also do ethics and business conduct training, so honesty is important also. The bottom line is that we live by customer satisfaction so it is the most important thing to my employer. Ask me what is important to me and the list will be shuffled somewhat.

 

[Steve_Miller]

I'm in maintenance at a manufacturing plant. Company policy is safety first for us so:

Safety
Customer Satisfaction
Attendance
Honesty
Professional Attitude and Appearance (dirt and grime are second nature)

Steve

 

[MikePA]

Please number in order what you feel is most important to your employer:

Attendance
Professional Attitude and Appearance
Honesty
Safety
Customer Satisfaction

IMO, it doesn't matter what the job is or who the employer is.

1. Honesty - Without this, none of the others matter. Dishonest people will lie about Attendance, Safety (it's always someone else's fault), Attitude (others cause my bad attitude) Appearance (look good when the boss is around, like a slob when they are not), Customer Sat (you don't know the idiots I get for customers, complaining customers will never be their fault)

2. Attendance - It should be assumed that people show up for work when they are supposed to whether they punch a time clock or are salaried.
1. Professional Attitude and 2. Appearance - Again, this should be assumed no matter what job someone has. If people do not have pride in how they look or their attitude, why would I want to employ them?
2. Safety - Every job has this requirement. Different safety issues in different jobs, but every job has it.
2. Customer Satisfaction - Every job performed by every person has a customer.

For me, there are only 2 categories; Attitude and Honesty (Integrity). Everything else can be taught. You can not change someone's attitude or teach them to be honest.

Obviously, if you're looking to fill a senior position, they have to have the skills you're looking for versus a junior position where you'd be willing to train them. But for the 5 attributes listed (skill wasn't one of them), it's Honesty and Attitude.

 

[MossRoad]

Attendance
Professional Attitude and Appearance
Honesty
Safety
Customer Satisfaction

Personally, I think they are all of equal importance and could not rank one above the rest. They can also be bad. For example:

Attendance means nothing if you show up every day yet do not do your job correctly.

Professional Attitide and Appearance means nothing if it is all for show. Plenty of good looking, well spoken slugs out there.

Honesty can be a double edged sword. "Yes, Mr. customer, our product is inferior."

Safety is important. An honest person may turn in his company for safety violations.

Customer Satisfaction. Give away the store for a fifty cent mistake.

Its a trick question designed by someone that just enjoys seeing people sweat.

 

[bones1]

Attendance
Professional Attitude and Appearance
Honesty
Safety
Customer Satisfaction

Personally, I think they are all of equal importance and could not rank one above the rest. They can also be bad. For example:

Attendance means nothing if you show up every day yet do not do your job correctly.

Professional Attitide and Appearance means nothing if it is all for show. Plenty of good looking, well spoken slugs out there.

Honesty can be a double edged sword. "Yes, Mr. customer, our product is inferior."

Safety is important. An honest person may turn in his company for safety violations.

Customer Satisfaction. Give away the store for a fifty cent mistake.

Its a trick question designed by someone that just enjoys seeing people sweat.

The above in red could be the best answer of all. No doubt a trick question Moss.

 

[Knotbored]

If you are trying to GET a new job they are all equally important.
If you are trying to assemble a crew then it depends on the talents of those already hired. Fill in the missing holes.
If you are trying to KEEP a job then looking for and filling those missing holes.(example:If you are the only one that consistantly showes up on time you will keep a job even when more talented workers are fired.)

 

[westbrooklawn]

The answers they want to see are:

1. safety
2. customer satisfaction
3. honesty
4. attendance
5. professional attitude and appearance

 

[ToadHill]

To be successful I believe they all have to be #1.

 

[rox]

I'm leaning towards Mike's answer with the exception of switching the bottom two.This is on a job application for a large concrete/block company that has outlets that sell everything related to concrete block ,stonework and landscaping and every piece of tool and equipment that you can imagine that's related to the block/stone construction industry.They are looking for store managers.
Just thought I'd throw it out there and see what kind of answers I would get.Real good so far.Thanks.

Bones- I had a boss tell me one time that the MOST important thing you bring to the job is to show up every day. in other words attendence. I don't care how honest you are, how satisfied you can make a customer, if you don't show up for work you are not there to do any of those nice things.

#1 Attendence- Showing up for the job has to e number one.

#2 Safety- For this job (if it was an office job safety would be lower ont he list)

#3 Honesty- You can be the greatest sales person, techno wizard but if you are dishonest with your coworkers, customers and business owners your skills are of no value

#4 Customer Satisfaction- I read an iterview once of a successful person and the whole philosophy of Customer Satisfaction was summed up as "The Customer has the money and we want it!" Whatever you have to do to get the customer, and keep the cusotmer coming back, that is customer satisfaction.

#5- professional attitude and appearance. If you Show up for work evry day, your coworkers and the customers love you, and they keep coming back to buy more from you, then this is the least important on the list.