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Mike Rowe knows a thing or two about hard work. After years of hosting TV‘s Dirty Jobs, he’s gotten his hands dirty with countless work environments only certain people are cut out for. These kinds of jobs are becoming harder to fill as time goes on. Many reasons have contributed to this phenomenon, but Rowe has his own thoughts on what is holding people back from landing those important jobs.
Rowe pinpointed the interview process as a major telling point for employers filling positions. In order to nail an interview, Rowe said job seekers need to possess “soft skills.”
As Rowe explained, soft skills are crucial abilities that “allow you not to take a phone call during a job interview, tuck your shirt in, show up on time, the basic things that many employers bemoan today that seem to be conspicuously lacking in much of the employable people looking for jobs. They are not using their words to a degree that’s making people excited about hiring them…they don’t know how to interview and what to say.”
Rowe said if he was in a hiring position looking for a candidate, the best thing he could hear from a prospective hire would be, “’Hi, it’s great to be here. Here’s the deal. I will be in early every day. I will stay late, everyday. And I will ask you, every day, what I can do to make your life simpler. If there’s a difficult task, I will volunteer to do it. And I will do so cheerfully.’ If somebody said that to me, I’d be like… I’ll see you tomorrow.”