Emotional Intelligence, Key Work Skill

When conducting job interviews, recruiters now assess how people react in interviews, their personality traits and how they manage adverse situations.

Emotional intelligence, a very popular term in the HR department, is weighing more than ever when hiring professionals that will manage other employees.

An article by Eugenia Soto in El Financiero remarks that "competences, personal branding and the usage of social networks as a way of showcasing are key aspects to succeed in the intense struggle for the top positions".

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People with a high emotional IQ are a positive influence on work groups. Everyone wants to work with them.

This ability to mediate the mood of a group is considered one of the virtues of Emotional Intelligence as defined by author, psychologist and journalist Daniel Goleman, who generated great interest in the role that emotions play in thinking, decision making and individual success when he published the book Emotional Intelligence in 1995.