{"id":2166,"date":"2016-12-21T11:28:41","date_gmt":"2016-12-21T10:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/preview.softfactors.com\/2016\/12\/21\/hard-data-on-soft-skills-the-softfactors-competency-index\/"},"modified":"2017-03-07T11:41:58","modified_gmt":"2017-03-07T10:41:58","slug":"hard-data-on-soft-skills-the-softfactors-competency-index","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.softfactors.com\/de\/2016\/12\/21\/hard-data-on-soft-skills-the-softfactors-competency-index\/","title":{"rendered":"Hard Data on Soft Skills \u2013 The Softfactors Competency Index\u2122"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People analytics can measure what was considered unmeasurable before \u2013 soft skills. Technology has given us the tools and techniques, and this is what we do at softfactors.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<h3>Which Soft Skills are mostly required in today\u2019s Jobs?<\/h3>\n<p>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 \u2013 not surprising \u2013 holds a list of commonly used skills that are important for the 21st century. The top 4 competencies are:<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/www.softfactors.com\/media\/4260\/sf_chart.jpg?width=500&amp;height=300.4830917874396\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People analytics can measure what was considered unmeasurable before \u2013 soft skills. Technology has given us the tools and techniques, and this is what we do at softfactors. Our tests&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.softfactors.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2166"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.softfactors.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.softfactors.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.softfactors.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.softfactors.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.softfactors.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2167,"href":"https:\/\/www.softfactors.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2166\/revisions\/2167"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.softfactors.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.softfactors.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.softfactors.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.softfactors.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}