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3rd January 2018
Soft skills such as a willingness to collaborate, curiousity and emotional intelligence may now trump a heavy reliance on STEM qualifications according to this article on Google's revised hiring criteria from the Washington Post.
"Project Aristotle shows that the best teams at Google exhibit a range of soft skills: equality, generosity, curiosity toward the ideas of your teammates, empathy, and emotional intelligence. And topping the list: emotional safety."
The best teams at Google exhibit a range of soft skills:
— Daniel Pink (@DanielPink) December 28, 2017
- equality,
- generosity,
- curiosity toward ideas of teammates,
- empathy,
- and topping the list: emotional safety.
https://t.co/aJ5bz6jF6P
stem less important than soft skills for Google top employees https://t.co/NwrQ2TlLML
— Brent Hoberman (@brenthoberman) January 2, 2018
The seven top characteristics of success at Google r all soft skills: being a good coach; communicating and listening well; possessing insights into others;having empathy ..Good for humanities
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