Data Reveals The Most In-demand Soft Skills Among Candidates
We can all agree that finding candidates with the right hard skills is important. In fact, we recently published this list of the most in-demand skills. However, it turns out that there is something equally – or maybe even more important –that employers want in the next hire: the right soft skills.
A recent LinkedIn survey of 291 hiring managers in the U.S. revealed that 59% of them believe that soft skills are difficult to find. Clearly, the soft skill supply and demand is out of whack. And this finding made us wonder – which soft skills are the most sought-after among employers? And, which industries have employees with the most soft skills?