How are your Recruiters judging Soft Skills?
An article published in a newspaper stated ‘60% of Employers say Soft Skills are essential for Hiring ’. No surprises. It’s the truth, maybe even as high as 80% consider soft skills as the final decision point.
Some statistics provided in the article are reproduced here for your quick reading:
Which Soft Skills are most important?
35% Listening
32% Communication
30% Confidence
26% Team Work
25% Positive Attitude
25% Creativity
20% Persuasion
18% Flexibility
15% Activeness/Alertness
10% Accountability
How Significant are Soft Skills while hiring an Employee?
60% Very Significant
30% Somewhat Significant
10% not Significant
What Level Soft Skills are important?
40% Middle Level
35% Junior Level
25% Senior Level
How difficult is it to find the desired Soft Skills?
70% Very Difficult
25% Somewhat Difficult
5% Not Difficult
Given the significance of Soft Skills needs for hiring/closures, it is getting very important that your Recruiters know what questions need to be asked so that the answers can convey Soft Skills along with competence.
Callify.ai provides this opportunity to enable Recruiters to record their well-prepared questions and send out to 100s of candidates instantly. When they receive the answers from Candidates, they can listen and re-listen to really make a proper judgment of the Soft Skills, especially Communication Skills.