Top 5 Soft Skills Employers Look For While Sourcing Candidates

SJ (VP of Customer Engagement)

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Have you ever understood the difference between soft skills and learned skills?

Multiple things make a candidate an apt resource ideal for the company.  When it comes to hiring, employers initially look for various credentials while sourcing the candidate such as their educational qualifications, work experiences, any extracurricular activities, etc. Without a doubt, employers do look at a candidate’s communication skills and his skilled abilities in a particular field as well. 

Apart from having required job profile skills, and good communication skills, there are some other crucial aspects that employers certainly notice while hiring a person. Those skills are soft skills that every employer looks for while sourcing a candidate.  

Why are soft skills important?

Learned skills are certainly required at your workplace because that’s what you are being hired for and getting paid for. On the other hand, soft skills refer to how you do your work and the level of collaboration you aim to maintain at the workplace. To stay competitive in the industry, soft skills play a vital role to justify your profile and it also reveals a lot about your ethics, morals and behavioral attributes.    

Soft skills showcase an individual’s social ethics and reflect a person’s ability to accept the change, and how they collaborate in a team for achieving a mutual goal.  

Here are some of the top 5 soft skill aspects that every employer looks while recruiting the candidate for the company such as: 

 

  • Good interpersonal skills

Having strong interpersonal skills act as a valuable asset that enables you to connect with people at the workplace. Interaction with others is equally important as if you are keen to meet them every day. 

Mentioning individual achievements on the curriculum vitae/ resume looks marvelous but showing your interpersonal skills in-person impresses the management panel.  

 

  • Adaptability 

When you first joined your school or kindergarten, certainly you were not ready to accept the change for leaving home and start studying half of the day. 

Similarly, after graduating, a few people choose different paths to walk over for settling down. But, there are a few people who like to bring change in their life and also at a professional level.  

The enthusiasm in such people to adapt to any situation showcases their sense of competitive advantage.  

 

  • Patience 

Well, patience is necessary for every aspect of life be it personal or professional. No employer prefers to hire a candidate who is short-tempered, impatient and becomes aggressive so easily.  

The bosses have the nature to criticize their employees wherever they do anything wrong or perform below the average. So, it doesn’t mean you will get him caught from his collar and start creating violence.  

Patience for performing any work is essential to survive in the industry. Hence, it is one of the crucial plus important parts of soft skills that one should be keeping all the time.  

 

  • Time management skills

In most of the cases, recruiters and management check the candidate’s time management skills whether or not the candidate is arriving early or late for the interview.  

Staying ahead of your time is extremely important if you want your profile to be among the shortlisted ones.

 

  • Teamwork

Among other special attributes like project management, verbal skills – aiming to establish a friendlier environment, working together in a team is imperative for a long and stable career.  

Management panel often asks candidates to give some instances where they have shown teamwork and how their teamwork quality is being recognized among others.

Hence, teamwork is also among the most demanded aspects that employers must look for.

Conclusion

When you prepare and train yourself for appearing in any interview, you must work upon strengthening your soft skills as well. Employers look at overall aspects in a candidate while recruiting them for the company and soft skills showcase a person’s persona whether he or she would be the right fit for the company. 

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