{"id":731,"date":"2007-03-08T08:30:52","date_gmt":"2007-03-08T14:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/03\/soft-skills-make-the-business-person\/"},"modified":"2007-03-08T08:30:53","modified_gmt":"2007-03-08T14:30:53","slug":"soft-skills-make-the-business-person","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/03\/soft-skills-make-the-business-person\/","title":{"rendered":"Soft Skills Make The Business Person"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting article from the Ottawa Business Journal titled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ottawabusinessjournal.com\/339357379088816.php\" target=\"_blank\">The hard facts about soft skills<\/a>.&nbsp; The premise:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;The things that students are missing out on when the certificates are handed out are lessons in soft skills that actually make a business person who they are. The technological skills are relatively easy to learn, but the soft skills are what make you a business leader,&#8221; said Barry Gander, vice president of CATA and author of Success.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Gander makes an excellent point especially in regards to recent business school grads.&nbsp; Technical skills are difficult to differentiate since they appear to be a commodity.&nbsp; Soft skills are certainly the more elusive traits to locate (and measure) and therefore the better differentiator.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;There are five things employers will pay for. They include leadership skills, project management skills, people skills, communication skills and sales skills. <em>Notice they&#8217;re all soft skills<\/em>. Everything else (like technical skills) everyone else has too!&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He&#8217;s right.&nbsp; I would take it a step further and say that companies will measure these 5 skills and we at Select Metrix will look at how those different skills interact.&nbsp; This interaction is an important part of the equation.&nbsp; One example:&nbsp; strong communication skills but weak sales skills often reveals a schmoozer.&nbsp; Schmoozers are dangerous because they are often smooth enough to look strong in interviews but their weakness is exposed once they are on your payroll.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting article from the Ottawa Business Journal titled The hard facts about soft skills.&nbsp; The premise: &#8220;The things that students are missing out on when the certificates are handed out are lessons in soft skills that actually make a business person who they are. The technological skills are relatively easy to learn, but the soft skills are what make you a business leader,&#8221; said Barry Gander, vice president of CATA and author of Success. Gander makes an excellent point especially in regards to recent business school grads.&nbsp; Technical skills are difficult to differentiate since they appear to be a commodity.&nbsp; Soft skills are certainly the more elusive traits to locate&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/03\/soft-skills-make-the-business-person\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21,6,2,16],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-bN","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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