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Why Emotional Intelligence Is Important When Hiring Top Talent

Social Talent

People with a high IQ would be deemed intelligent is someone’s IQ the main component when looking at someone’s intelligence – especially in recruitment. Emotional intelligence (EQ) is equally as important in recruitment. As a recruiter, it’s important to be able to gauge a candidate’s EQ.

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4 Ways to Boost Your Emotional Intelligence (EQ)—and Become a Better Recruiter

Linkedin Talent Blog

Emotional intelligence (EQ) —the ability to identify and manage your own emotions and the emotions of others—is predicted to be one of the most in-demand workplace skills by 2020. With EQ becoming so important in the workplace, you can apply your enhanced emotional awareness to better identify it in candidates.

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How To Manage An Emotional Job Market In 2020

Hiretual

Coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic, there is going to be huge change in the job market in 2020 – including a lot of redundancies. This is going to create an emotional market. Since emotional intelligence is new to this list of top 5 soft skills we need to know how to recruit for it and the best way to assess it.

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Forget Interview Questions: 4 Fresh Tactics to Screen Candidates for Emotional Intelligence

Linkedin Talent Blog

Emotional intelligence (EQ) is a hot topic right now. So hot that it caused a lot of controversy on ABC’s The Bachelor, where one contestant told another that she “lacked the emotional intelligence” to be with this season’s bachelor. And, emotional intelligence falls into that category.

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The Most In-Demand Hard and Soft Skills of 2020

Linkedin Talent Blog

Last year, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and analytical reasoning led LinkedIn’s global list of the most in-demand hard skills. They’re all on the list again this year, but a skill we weren’t even looking at a year ago — blockchain — tops the list of most in-demand hard skills for 2020. But slipping in at No.

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The Most Important Trait of a Successful Recruiter

The Whiteboard

As I was trying to kick-start my own desk for 2020, I got to thinking about what it really was that I needed to do to make some goddam placements. Intelligence: Hahahahahahahahahahaha! Emotional Intelligence: Absolutely. Recruitment is all about the understanding and management of human emotion. What about you?

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6 Recruiting Lessons From Horror Movies That Are Scarily Good

Linkedin Talent Blog

Rob Savage’s Host (2020) makes an excellent case for being as thoughtful as possible during video calls. American Psycho: Recruiting for emotional intelligence is just as important as hard skills. Not so long ago, the so-called “beer test” was the go-to method of assessing culture fit.

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