Harvard on How Recruitment Must Change
TLDR
Recruiting is broken. Businesses must screen for social skills.
Employers screen and select for experience and hard skills, totally overlooking the most critical dimension of applicants’ talent proposition: their social skills.
This produces bad outcomes: selecting wrong hires, overlooking high value ones.
Social skills matter to the success of every business.
Social skills — the ability to read the room, empathize, collaborate, build relationships, and work well with others — are a vital element at any pay level.
Four reasons make them critical:
They enable effective and productive interaction between workers
They enable effective interaction between workers and clients
They increase team performance and smooth out internal conflict
They enable workers to pick better information from their work environment
Fix your recruiting, transform business performance
Ready to learn more? Check out key insights from Harvard research:
D. Deming documents the Growing Importance of Social Skills in the Labor Market
R. Sadun et al. identify the C-Suite Skills that Matter Most
B. Weidmann and D. Deming show How Social Skills Improve Team Performance
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