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Why Soft Skills Matter and I Can’t Wait to Get My Hair Cut

Eightfold

The soft skills keep you in business: customer service, listening, time management, getting along with people, collaboration, communication, persuasion, empathy, and the emotional intelligence of the owner or waiter or customer-service person being able to learn what you want, and what you don’t want. People management.

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Level Up Your Hiring: Gamification — Fad or Future?

Recruiting Blogs

It’s essentially taking the fun and engaging aspects of games and applying them to other areas, like education, marketing, fitness, and hiring, to make them more interesting and motivating. Gamified hiring promises a host of potential benefits for both employers and job seekers. Can gamified hiring improve diversity and inclusion?

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How to Be a Leader in the Workplace

Zengig

Look for opportunities to give constructive feedback that will help them succeed, not just in the role they were hired for but in their career as a whole. Stop being afraid of failure Along the path to Virgin Records and Virgin Airlines, Richard Branson stumbled upon the dud that was Virgin Cola. Humility is essential as well.

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The 3 Traits of Great Team Players (And How to Recruit for Them)

Linkedin Talent Blog

Chances are, at some point in your career you’ve interviewed (and maybe hired) someone who just does not play well with others. And while the Michael Jordans of the world can be great for certain roles , when you’re recruiting for jobs that require teamwork, hiring someone who doesn’t fit the bill can damage the whole team.

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Good HR Is Like Good Relationships: It’s All About Trust

Recruiting Daily Advisor

Yeah because then you’ll get things like when United Airlines beat that guy up and pulled him off the plane. That’s in its policies and procedures that the airline could do that. And I’m reading right now Daniel Goleman’s book on emotional intelligence again. You’ve got to do that 5 years from now.

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Top 13 must-read books for HR professionals

Hacker Earth

Although this popular social science book caters to a broad audience, it can be especially relevant to people in human resources as it talks about workplace bias and conflict (Also read – 7 types of hiring bias and how to avoid ), trust, power, negotiation, motivation, and more. Hiring For Attitude by Mark Murphy.

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13 must read books for HR professionals

Hacker Earth

Although this popular social science book caters to a broad audience, it can be especially relevant to people in human resources as it talks about workplace bias and conflict (Also read – 7 types of hiring bias and how to avoid ), trust, power, negotiation, motivation, and more. Hiring For Attitude by Mark Murphy.