Top 5 specialisations that employers require most for hiring prospective candidates

Every year, a lot of research has been done about what employers are looking for in a potential employee. Aside from generic skills, it appears that selling (either promoting a product or advocating an idea) is among the top specific skills employers want in an employee.

Selling is a specific skill that needs communication skills at a higher level. It requires the ability to effective communicate, express, negotiate, resolve or assert your interests, desires, needs and rights. Jobstreet.com surveyed employers in Malaysia and identified the top 5 specific skills they look for in a candidate (see right).

Jobstreet’s country manager, Chook Yuh Yng, when contacted by BizHive Weekly noted that employers in Malaysia typically prefer to hire locals, unless there are specific skill sets that can only be fulfilled by foreigners such as management or finance, which require international expertise or experiences.

“Typically, companies in Malaysia are only allowed to hire foreigners when they can prove that Malaysians aren’t able or willing to do that job.”