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Hard Data on Soft Skills – The Softfactors Competency Index™

By 21. Dezember 2016März 7th, 2017Blog, Soft Skills

People analytics can measure what was considered unmeasurable before – soft skills. Technology has given us the tools and techniques, and this is what we do at softfactors.

Our tests measure competencies in key areas through a series of fun, intuitive, interactive and quick online activities. We have combined self-description, with ability testing and behavioral assessments.

Which Soft Skills are mostly required in today’s Jobs?

At softfactors we measure and observe trends by function (i.e. marketing) and role (i.e. senior expert or team leader) against our 25 competencies. And the picture – not surprising – holds a list of commonly used skills that are important for the 21st century. The top 4 competencies are: