Today we’re going to talk about general skills, others call them ‘cross-cutting skills’. What’s this about? Well, let’s say this kind of skill is essentially oriented to the professional world, secondly, there are also technical skills.
Technical competences are all those related to the formal knowledge acquired, acquired through curricular teaching in institutions, are those that can be certified by a degree and by continuous training, in which a person is constantly evaluated.
- “What really matters for success.
- Character.
- Happiness and vital achievements is a set of social.
- Not just cognitive.
- Skills that are measured by conventional IQ tests.
- -Daniel Goleman-.
General competencies would be those that are used to implement what we have learned, not only what is acquired through formal education, but also what is learned through practice and life, also refer to attitudes, values and everything that is at stake in a professional. Activity.
In companies there is growing talk of soft skills, many of the most prestigious companies now attach great importance to the selection of their staff, it is argued that the most important thing for the work environment and for productivity is not intellectual skills, but general. Skills.
The non-technical skills most appreciated by human resources departments are the ability to work as a team and the communicative capacity, both skills are fundamental to properly avoid and manage conflicts, nothing discourages a worker more than being in the middle of a group in which everyone thinks only of themselves or in which personal interests and misunderstandings prevail.
Within soft skills are also considered values, and the values most appreciated in the professional world are three: honesty, responsibility and commitment What good is someone with enormous talent but who is not able to commit to common goals?the involvement of people who also value creativity a lot is essential: this ability to solve problems and propose innovative ideas.
The LinkedIn social network conducted a multi-company survey, which aimed to examine the level of importance that human resources departments attach to general competencies.
The results of this work, in which 291 human resources directors were interviewed, confirmed what was already reported in the field of occupational psychology, the first conclusion was that entrepreneurs found many people with technical skills, but few with general skills.
The non-technical skills most appreciated by entrepreneurs are: good communication, good organization, teamwork, punctuality, critical thinking, sociability, creativity, good interpersonal communication, adaptability and friendly personality.
However, recruitment officials have complained about the difficulty of finding these attributes among people with higher levels of education. “Either they have one of the two types of skills, or they have the other,” said one interviewee. This reflects a formal education in which the person does not matter much, but only their intellect.
The study also indicated that in some sectors of the economy there were more people with general skills, in particular, these attributes were relatively common in sectors such as marketing, education, health, sports, consulting and tourism.
In turn, these skills were distinguished by their absence in other professions, mainly in graphic, audiovisual, photography, music, civil engineering and law, a fact that ends up attracting a lot of attention. In theory, fields such as arts and law require great human skills, however, human resources officials pointed out that this was precisely in areas where it was more difficult to find people who combined good knowledge and training with social skills and work-oriented values. .
Finally, what this study reveals is that many workers have significant deficiencies related to emotional intelligence and that, in the long run, these other intelligences involved in this concept end up being more important in practice than intellectual capacity itself, especially when it comes to teamwork. The good thing is that just as we can all carry out knowledge acquisition processes, we can also do so to develop the skills and values demanded by the business world, one of the most important paths to professional success today.