Is Personality More Important than Skills?
- Posted By Super User
- HR Management
One of the greatest traps when thinking about bolstering a company's capabilities is focusing too myopically on the technology. Sure, great teams require technical wizards, but it turns out that in the eyes of employers hard skills take a back seat to personal qualities such as creativity, drive, and open-mindedness when it comes to employability.
This is the finding of a recent study from digital education company Hyper Island titled "Tomorrow's Most Wanted." In the study, conducted over a three-month period in 2013, Hyper Island surveyed over 500 leaders and employees across companies within the communication, tech, and business development industries, looking at future challenges and the skills and qualities needed to meet them.