Is 'Emotional Intelligence' The New Hiring Criterion?

The Boston Globe:

In this job market, it's not just who you know, or even what skills you've mastered. It's how well you understand other people that will get you ahead.

This is the age of emotional intelligence, often called EQ, and today's hiring managers want proof you've got it.

Read the whole story: The Boston Globe

Comments

[NYC-CatLover]

What a bunch of balls. I worked in HR Recruiting for years, and pretty much anybody can put on a good face and come to an interview armed with great stories about how they solved a problem at work or dealt with a difficult customer. You get hired because your price tag happens to be right and because the hiring manager thinks "you'll be a good fit" (they like you) I was always rejecting candidates because they hired somebody else who the manager "clicked with" better. The hiring managers are not rocket scientists or PhD's, and HR people definitely are not, so don't worry about getting sniffed out as "not having enough EQ"

[greybeardgray]

'It's only Rock 'n Roll to me ..." (continuing on theme): The milieu of 'images' and 'reflections' that are mirrored in our 'mental composition', I fondly characterize as "sea-like". This comparison is intended to suggest insights into the "complexity" of a potential subject's mental make-up. [PSYCHOLOGICAL PREMISE: Awareness of the myriad of familial, social, environmental, atmospheric, and indeed personnal, aspects of a subject's existence is a sounding board for any effective 'approach' to the examination of his/her 'mental state(s)'.] ... jaj-gbg!!! ('That's all folks' for the time-being: "Familial Aspects", is a work in progress.)

[greybeardgray]

Oh that magic feeling ... (continued on theme) ... I. PSYCHOLOGY AS THE PROGNOSTIC SCIENCE OF MENTAL STATES AND HOW THEY 'MIGHT' RELATE TO PHYSICAL AFFECTS WHICH MAY HAVE OCCURRED. Tracing the relationship of our 'spiritual' being, or mind, to 'physical manifestations' to the subject, and their resultant influence upon others around them, rightly, 'should' be the aim of any 'psychological endeavors'. From this approach, these considerations come to 'consciousness': (1) Does the subject(s) relate any experiences and 'influences' which suggest any reason for his current mental state? (2) Does this mental state have any pronounced abberative effect upon the 'commonly accepted concepts' of 'society', and 'community'? (3) Are there any 'correlative physical manifestations', or suggestions of them, evident in the subject(s)? (4) Are there any known 'curative prescriptions' for these physical manifestations? (5) Should the subject(s), then be referred for further treatment to a 'Psychiatric Professional'? ... jaj-gbg .. Nowhere to go ...

[greybeardgray]

... (continued on theme ...) ... The 'flux' of our 'mental being' can be said to be twofold. First, the fluid passing of images and experiences, based in part upon, our relationship to these phenomena, and their corresponding 'value and effect' upon our collective person. Second, and I suggest, more valuable, its ultimate influence and varied relationships with our 'physical being and organistic development'. [PSYCHOLOGICAL HYPOTHESIS: Can delving into the 'mental constituency', effects, and 'affectations of any 'individual subject(s)' be the 'sole criteria' of our our 'assessment' of his/her 'mental state and being'?] ... jaj-gbg!!!

[greybeardgray]

... (continued on theme) ... Undoubting reliance upon the related 'criterion' of others have been proven to be defeased by 'chance', 'happenstance', 'circumstance', 'accident', and other 'unpredictable occurrences'. [FIRST MORAL HYPOTHESIS: Can it be said, that if one's unyielding reliance upon the cumulative experience and knowledge of others, in any case, can be said to have failed, are these reliable criterion of our 'moral foundations and beliefs'?] I further offer this important caveat, mere knowledge of failure of a certain criteria of morality, does not, in and of itself, eliminate its ultimate usefulness and value to the concept morality as a whole. [MORAL PREMISE: The 'subjective value' and 'success' of a particular moral criteria, should be, by nature, an 'individual' choice.] jaj-gbg!!! ...

[greybeardgray]

PROPOSED THEME: Mind (Nous) As Sea, Brain (Organ) As Being.
The mind, the 'spirit' mind, is a collectivity of all the 'places' we've 'been'; all the 'things' we've 'done'; all the 'beings', 'matter', and 'space', we've seen and been in; all we 'know'. It can be said to be, I suggest: The 'sum' total of our 'experience'. It thereby can be said to be, I further suggest and relate, a 'subjective' topic. Subjectivity, hence, can be said to be: A 'perspectival' matter; depending upon, all the above-related 'criteria'. To be sure, we can, however, depend, and possibly relate to, the experiences and accumulated collections of others, but the emptiness which corresponds to our first impressions of these related collective experiences of others, can only be satisfied by actual experimentation and tests of the proposed matters related. [MORAL PREMISE: Although one can benefit and hence be said to have gained, from the communicated knowledge of others, a truer, and thereby more reliable criteria of our continuing, and perpetual moral development and growth, is actual first-hand knowledge, and later, its 'verification' and 'use'.] ...

[capitalismisntamoral]

when I got hired in 1997, my ready answer to the 'what was the last book you read' was Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman.

[rigveda]

You have got to be kidding me. What a world!

[menmykoko]

Although this is interesting and helpful, isn't this article 3 years old?

[humaneismyth]

emotional intelligence helped get me hired at my last job.A lack of emotional intelligence helped get me fired.Now..it doesn't matter.Emotional intelligence is one thing..emotional invincibility is another .