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The Most In-Demand Hard and Soft Skills of 2020

Linkedin Talent Blog

Our list of the most in-demand soft skills is headed by creativity, just as it was in 2018 and 2019. 5 is a newcomer, emotional intelligence, a skill important in just about every role. In looking for soft skills, companies are focusing on candidates with emotional intelligence. But slipping in at No.

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10 Crucial Project Management Skills to Identify and Test

The Hire Talent

Recent data (Project Management Institute’s 2018 Pulse of the Profession report ) indicates that soft skills are more important (in 4 out of 5 cases) than other hard skills. Such people skills test taps into communication proficiency, personality traits, emotional intelligence, and other decisive personal dimensions.

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9 Leadership Assessment Tools for Recruiters and CEOs

The Hire Talent

The DiSC Personality Test. We had discussed the DiSC Personality Inventory when we highlighted recruiting the world’s most popular personality assessments. As we said then, this personality test works less as a job performance predictor and more as an overall assessment of an individual’s personality style.

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You Have Low Employee Engagement Scores – What Do You Do to Improve It?

Achievers - Recruiting

In 2018, Bayhealth’s engagement scores fell to an overall low since they had been tracking them. Bayheath added Emotional Intelligence (EI) training with the SW Institute for Emotional Intelligence ; training and development was a key initiative.