What are Soft Skills?
Soft skills are any skill or quality that can be classified as a personality trait or attribute.
These behaviours shape how you work on your own and with others, and guide your approach to life and work.
Soft skills are any skill or quality that can be classified as a personality trait or attribute.
These behaviours shape how you work on your own and with others, and guide your approach to life and work.
Soft skills are far more indicative of future job performance compared to hard skills. Therefore it's vitally important to be able to assess them accurately.
Using a formalised and psychometrically valid method of soft skill assessment is the most effective way to assess your candidates for soft skills.
According to a report on different types of skills in the job market, a large proportion of job postings are dedicated to describing soft skills, and place high value upon them.
However, these are often skills which candidates do not receive additional training or support with once placed in a role.
This results in what we call a ‘skills gap’ where skills are being overemphasised in the recruitment process, but under supplied (or not accurately identified) from the talent pool.
There is a gap between business’ demand for soft skills and their presence in the workforce
The Oxford Economics’ Workforce 2020 study found that “problems with talent and key skills are affecting business performance”
There is also a growing disconnect between the demand for soft skills and the inability to identify them. While everyone agrees soft skills are extremely valuable, most companies still struggle to assess them accurately—and only 41% even have a formal process in place to measure them.
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