Hiring managers most frequently cite the ability to listen (81 percent) and teamwork (72 percent) as key soft skills that they look for in potential candidates
Hiring managers, across all Professional / Technical (PT) sectors say 60 percent of candidates globally lack the right combination of hard and soft skills, highlights a recent survey by Kelly Services. PT hiring managers most frequently cite the ability to listen (81 percent) and teamwork (72 percent) as key soft skills that they look for in potential candidates. Team work is even more critical for engineering talent, at 85 percent. The latest Kelly Global Workforce Insights (KGWI) survey on Career Resilience also found that across the globe, 60 per cent of millennials are concerned with keeping their skills updated, reflecting the uncertain economic times that they grew up in, their fascination with technology and disruptive business models, and their relatively high degree of comfort with change. Geographically, APAC workers (64 percent) are significantly more concerned with skills remaining current when compared to Americas (55 percent) and EMEA (56 percent). PT workers repr...