What Do You Bring to the Table?

While speaking with my classes or providing job counseling to clients, I frequently ask them what they are bring to the table.  When you visit Las Vegas or another center for gambling and sit at a gaming table, the dealer will ask what are you bring to the table. If you are short or void of funds, you may be politely asked to vacate the seat.

Frequently as job seekers consider possible employers they focus on what the employer will provide them.  I am thinking that is the wrong question.  The important question to be answered is what you will provide the hiring organization. 

As you seek employment, I suggest that you develop a list of reasons why you should be hired to fill the open position. You should approach the situation with a positive can-do attitude with specific examples of your experience and accomplishments. Remember you can accept or reject a job only after it has been offered.  Your primary objective in a job seeking activity is to receive a job offer.  Once you have the offer, you have the option to accept or reject it.

As a job seeker, what are you bringing to the table?   

Thanks.

Glyn