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Google focuses on soft skills when hiring

Geoff Riley

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:
- equality,
- generosity,
- curiosity toward ideas of teammates,
- empathy,
- and topping the list: emotional safety.
https://t.co/aJ5bz6jF6P
— Daniel Pink (@DanielPink) December 28, 2017

stem less important than soft skills for Google top employees https://t.co/NwrQ2TlLML

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
— Brent Hoberman (@brenthoberman) January 2, 2018

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for over thirty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD conferences in the UK and overseas.

@tutor2uGeoff