Elizabeth Myler Source 5

Citation:     Weinstein, Bruce D. The Good Ones: Ten Crucial Qualities of High-character Employees. Novato, California: New World Library, 2015. Print.                                                 

Question: What do employers find to be the most important trait of employees that they hire?

Thoughts before reading: From my personal experience and knowledge, I think that many employers look for dependability, efficiency, and, depending on the job, people-skills. These are important so that an employer can judge if that person will be reliable in showing up to work, do a job to the best of their ability, and treat customers and other businesses that they are in contact with professionally and respectfully. Employers want their employees to represent their business well and be pleasant to work with.

Why I thought this source would be a good choice: This source focuses solely on what makes a good employee and what employers should look for when hiring. It gives ten main traits that make a good employee, all which are mainly self explainable. I want to use this source because it goes to show all of the different things that are often considered to make up a great worker, and I can compare these traits to the capability of disabled people to perform them.

Summarize: This book discusses the "ten crucial qualities of high-character employees". The author lists these to be honesty, accountability, care, courage, fairness, gratitude, humility, loyalty, patience, and presence. Through examples and much explanation, the author explains how he believes character should be the most important thing that employers look at when hiring new employees.

Think: While I agree that all of these qualities would make for an amazing employee, I question how common it is to actually find employees with all of these traits. Out of these, which should be considered the most important? Many employers agree on these traits. If these are the most important things to an employer, who is to say that a person with a disability, depending on the severity of course, could not attain all of these characteristics and be an amazing employee?

Synthesize: This source can relate to source 1, comparing how most people stigmatize individuals with disabilities and how that may carry over into the hiring process. Like said in source 2, disabled may get a little down on themselves when they know they are qualified for a job but these qualifications are overshadowed by their disability. The different points of synthesis here are seeing potential employees who have a disability either for their qualification for the job or not finding them fit because of their disability.

Question and Plan: This is my last journal entry, so it will be the last question I propose in my essay.  Next, I will conclude all of these points of stasis I have found throughout my research to explain the different aspects of how disability can influence an individual's career experience after college. I need to make sure I fully incorporate the aspect of higher education in my topic, and emphasize it more when I gather all of these views together in my first draft.