Podcast 30: Leveraging Soft Skills to Hire Better Employees

In Week 5 of our Six Weeks of Serious Soft Skills
Strategy, we look at how to implement soft skills
into the hiring process, which will provide
valuable insights into the process for hiring
managers and job applicants.


 


Dr. Tobin Porterfield and Bob Graham, co-hosts of
the Serious Soft Skills Podcast, cover the
following topics:


Avoiding the trap of only looking at technical
skills

Evaluating applicants’ functional skills along
with soft skills

How applicants can articulate how they can
blend soft skills with technical skills are the
gold standard

How the best applicants can explain how they
transfer technical information into actionable
skills in the workplace

Why open-ended questions encourage good
applicants to talk about their soft skills

How standard questions can help compare
candidates and specific soft skills you are seeking

Gearing questions around soft skills

Why it might help to provide foundational
questions in advance of an interview

Why checking of qualifications is not the best
way to interview

Asking “how” questions

What are the best methods for evaluating
technical skills outside of the interview

Proven tips for conducting a good interview for
you and your interviewee



Next Week


In Week 6, our final week of our Six Weeks of
Serious Soft Skills Strategy, we will dig deeper
into how to integrate soft skills into the hiring
process so employers can find better-fitting
candidates who can help their organizations grow.









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