Soft Skills Lead To Faster Promotions, LinkedIn Data Shows
HRDIVE, Tuesday, March 5th, 2024
For talent professionals, this means upskilling initiatives and the hiring process should include a focus on soft skills.
Workers with soft skills - such as problem-solving, decision-making and good communication abilities - get promoted faster than those who don't have the skills, according to a Feb. 29 report from LinkedIn.
Based on LinkedIn data for 2020-2023, full-time employees who had both hard and soft skills on their profiles were promoted 8% faster than those who only had hard skills.
'It's a testament to the concrete impact of so-called soft skills: Even if you can't easily measure the skill itself, they still make a measurable difference,' co-authors Greg Lewis and Manas Mohapatra wrote in the report.