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What You Need to Know About Screening For Soft Skills
Soft skills are the behavioral attributes that characterize an individual’s interactions with other people. They make up 25% of the skills required to successfully perform in a role and, critically, are directly related to career performance and advancement. To complicate matters, soft skills can’t be taught or accurately measured.
So should you even bother? How are you supposed to gauge a candidate’s soft skills?
The easy parts: The answer is yes, and we’ll show you the “how.”
Our eBook covers five behavior-based questions you should ask an interviewee in order to judge their collaborative ability, communication skills, and emotional maturity. Behavior-based questions get to the root of things by encouraging a structured response that touches on a task, action, and result. As you can imagine, these answers will be as unique as the person you’re interviewing! And that’s exactly why the questions are effective.
Download our interview questions now!
Here’s what you can expect to learn:
What to ask your candidate, and why
What recruiters feel is most important about cultural fits
How soft skill proficiencies increase a team’s performance
