Another great article by Karalyn Brown, Australian online careers agony aunty, who writes frequently on career issues for a major Australian newspaper and talks about job search tactics on the national broadcaster. This post comes from The Punch.

What do employers really want? After interviewing 25 hiring managers I am still slightly confused.

We asked all the questions anyone applying for a job should ask a prospective employer, hoping we’d find some simple – even sexily digestible – answers.

Not so I’m afraid. Instead we discovered bosses to be tough, fair, kind, strict, empathetic, funny, unreasonable, quirky, judgmental and contradictory – in short, very human…

Read the original article here: Seven Things Employers Really Want