Soft Skills There are many skills that aren’t tied to a specific certification or skillset for a particular position. These are soft skills or emotional intelligence skills. For example, most employers seek out a candidate who is a team player, learns quickly, requires minimal supervision, enjoys challenges, pursues goals, and has an agreeable personality.
There are four key areas of emotional intelligence: self-awareness, self- management, social awareness and relationship management. Are you able to manage your own emotions and instinctively understand or detect those of colleagues, friends and acquaintances? If so, you may possess emotional intelligence, which is another skillset that is important to effectively communicate with co-workers and customers. Emotional intelligence isn’t just essential in the workplace, it’s also an important trait to possess during the job hunt, especially when setbacks occur. Being able to find the energy to send out one more resume, make one more call, or attend one more networking event, speaks not only to persistence but to the ability to manage your own emotions. Job hunting can be stressful and staying positive and engaged in the process can be difficult. This requires emotional intelligence and it can be the key to your success. Examples include sincerity, reliability, tactfulness, patience, flexibility, timeliness, tolerance, motivation, persistence, drive and cooperation. Make sure to include some of these skills on your resume, especially if they show motivation and a good work attitude.
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