This week I read an article called, The First Soft Skill to Develop in Students, which can be found at http://growingleaders.com/blog/first-soft-skill-develop-students/ .
After reading, I learned that social intelligence is a key part to getting, and keeping, a job. Social intelligence is the ability to maintain complex social relationships, or simply put: being able to make friends and keep them. This is extremely important in the workplace because in a job, you have to work with others. There's no way around it, relationships must be made, whether they're personal or strictly professional. If employees can't work together, a business will never succeed and grow.
One big thing I took away from this article is that my generation is having a lot more trouble getting and maintaining jobs than the generation before us. I learned that younger people tend to be more self-absorbed which creates problems in the workplace. I think that as a successful employee, one must focus on others and the business more than oneself. If every employee took the time to listen to what needed to be done, and work together to achieve the task, business would run much more smoothly.
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