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The Best Jobs Now Require You To Be A People Person
Are you good at math? A computer whiz? Well, great! Presumably your “hard skills” are a surefire ticket to a high-paying job. Well, maybe that used to be the case. But it’s not necessarily so anymore. To land a lucrative job today, hard skills in math and engineering, for instance, may not be enough. As technology allows us to automate more technical jobs, new research shows that people skills — communicating clearly, being a team player...
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Am I the only one with the impression that this was always the case?
I mean, the weird, socially-inept scientist/STEM person that everyone keeps around was a media trope because they were understood to be the exception to having a good position in the workplace, not the rule.
Hasn't it always been that the fast talker who shook the right hands got ahead? Yeah, the entry level requirements are higher than ever, but game is generally the same.