55: Soft Skills and the Hiring Process

A Forbes.com article, How to Hire the Right People to Help Your
Organization Success by Sally Percy, suggests that employers are
undervaluing soft skills, which seems silly in this
low-unemployment business climate. We will discuss the technical
skills fixation and why it hurts employers in this episode of the
Serious Soft Skills Podcast.


Among the topics cohosts Dr. Tobin Porterfield and Bob Graham
discuss are:


Why focusing on technical skills is comfortable, but
difficult to enable proper hiring.

Why combining technical skills and soft skills is the key to
business success

How employers have become lazy when it comes to soft skills

Job qualifiers and job winners

Why employers need to get past the fishing expedition in
using soft skills to hire

How hiring with a soft-skills focus helps create a better
cultural fit



  


Next week


We explore one of the more complicated soft skills: accepting
criticism. New episodes every Wednesday.


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