Emotional intelligence new hiring criteria for jobs?

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Emotional intelligence is certainly important. However, just because people are beginning to define it, acknowledge it, and consider it intellectually does not mean that it is new. How old is the adage that "it is not what you know but who you know". For better or worse, I seriously doubt it will ever change either.

My brother has some learning disabilities, but is an extremely likable guy. Despite the fact that I am a fair amount more intelligent than him he always seems to do better than I do with his jobs. I just have difficult believing that this is a new situation.

Tickle EQ score = 110

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This number is the result of a formula based on how many questions you answered correctly on Tickle's Emotional IQ test. But your Emotional IQ score is much more than just a number: it's an indicator of success.

Research has shown that people with high emotional intelligence scores — not necessarily those with the highest IQ scores — tend to be the most valued and productive employees and have the longest and happiest romantic relationships.

So, where are you most emotionally smart? Your test results show that your strongest suit is perception — your ability to pick up on what others are feeling.

Because of this, you are unusually good at reading people's verbal and non-verbal cues. You're especially aware of the subtleties of people's actions, and can feel out the vibe of a situation better than many. That gives you and edge many wish they had. People with high perception skills like yours, however, tend to rely on them to the exclusion of others. As a result, they sometimes have underdeveloped abilities in other realms of critical emotional intelligence like managing emotions, empathy, and being expressive.

To truly excel in life and know how to relate to different people, you need to balance out the different kinds of emotional intelligence.

Research indicates that if people who are strong in perception can work to increase their overall emotional IQ score, they can prepare themselves to handle any interpersonal exchange with amazing skill — especially by learning to be empathetic and by being able to express what it is they are feeling or trying to say.

And the good news is that people who try to improve their emotional IQ have far greater success than people who try to improve their IQ.


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So I guess there's one thing I /don't/ have in common with the textbook aspie.

At least out here I think the new standard at least for many professional jobs out here is 'can you train yourself really fast to do as well as someone who's been here for years with little or no help whatsoever and little or no conveyance of expectations?'. Emotional quotient IMO - neither here nor there. I mean if you are indeed a true social butterfly you can float on chaos, balance a lot of fine details, smooth over your mistakes by sweet talking people or at least knowing how to look more competent to you are, and roll with the punches better than someone who isn't - that's less EQ and just something that lends itself to people who can make more utility of having a high EQ.