At a time of telework and Covid-19 which have upset the world of work, candidates are put to the test.
Faced with these changes, the "soft skills have become as important as technical skills. Also called “soft skills”, soft skills reveal your ability to adapt to rapid changes in your environment.
What do we mean by Soft Skills?
This term designates both relational intelligence, communication skills, character, interpersonal skills... In short, it is all your personal qualities that take you from the average employee to the efficient, pleasant and engaging employee for the rest of your life. the team.
In short, soft skills are opposed to all these complementary capacities to those which are learned and measured, in other words the “hard skills” (diplomas, mastery of IT tools, CACES, accreditations, etc.). And today, soft skills are attracting more and more interest from companies and recruiters!
It may be good to know, here are the 10 soft skills most sought after by recruiters:
- Adaptability
- The organization
- Rigor
- The leadership
- emotional intelligence
- the Motivation box
- Kindness
- Stress management
How to highlight your Soft Skills?
Soft skills are additional information to hard skills and are to be discovered throughout your CV. The expected exercise is therefore to know your soft skills and put them forward!
Also remember to select those that are most suited to the position for which you have opted. They can allow you to stand out from other candidates!
You can indicate them in the title of your CV or even integrate them directly into the descriptions of your experiences.
Be careful, however, to be in tune with what you note because you risk having discussions and questions about it during the interviews.
To conclude: with equal technical skills, your motivation, your interpersonal skills, your rigor, stress management, curiosity (…) can make the difference.
The plus: recently we have also been talking about crazy skills or "mad skills” ! These are the leisure skills and don't doubt it, they can complement the first reading of a CV. These are the skills that can be deduced from the practice of a sport or a passion activity, and can have a strong added value in the context of work.
Now that you know a little more… To your CV!