From DICE, February 5, 2009...
At your next interview, pitch this skill: your ability to focus on the job at hand.
Why? As Mike Elgan points out, the nature of work has evolved so that paying attention is as important as hard work.
"Distractions mask the toll they take on productivity. Everyone finishes up their work days exhausted, but how much of that exhaustion is from real work, how much from the mental effort of fighting off distractions and how much from the indulgence of distractions?”
In fact, 28 percent of our workday gets eaten up by distractions and the accompanying recovery time, estimates research firm Basex. Blame Twitter, Facebook and your BlackBerry, not to mention the co-worker who glides over twice a day just to say, “I’m bored. What’s up?”
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