{"id":5850,"date":"2018-11-20T15:04:28","date_gmt":"2018-11-20T15:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/?p=5850"},"modified":"2019-01-16T23:48:07","modified_gmt":"2019-01-16T23:48:07","slug":"this-is-the-most-beneficial-soft-skill-for-your-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/this-is-the-most-beneficial-soft-skill-for-your-career\/","title":{"rendered":"Survey: The Most Beneficial Soft Skill for Your Career is Persistence"},"content":{"rendered":"

What soft skill has been most instrumental in helping your career? For 1 in 3 people, the answer is persistence.<\/p>\n

Indeed, 33% of respondents in an ongoing query<\/a> by Comparably chose persistence more than any other soft skill. The other options were humility, likability, empathy and logic.<\/p>\n

\"SOF1\"<\/p>\n

Men vs. women<\/b><\/p>\n

From a gender perspective, both men and women chose persistence as their top skill, followed next by likability. They deviated a bit when it came to the role of empathy and humility: men ranked empathy their least popular choice while women ranked humility their least popular choice.<\/p>\n

\"SOF2\"<\/p>\n

More people choose persistence with age<\/b><\/p>\n

Persistence was the top-ranked skill for every age group, though it commanded a slightly larger percentage of responses among people in older age groups. For example, 30% of people 18 to 25 chose persistence vs. 37% of people 51 to 55.<\/p>\n

18 to 25<\/p>\n

\"1825\"<\/p>\n

36 to 40<\/p>\n

\"3640\"<\/p>\n

51 to 55<\/p>\n

\"5155\"<\/p>\n

The latest reading is as of Nov. 20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What soft skill has been most instrumental in helping your career? For 1 in 3 people, the answer is persistence. Indeed, 33% of respondents in an ongoing query by Comparably chose persistence more than any other soft skill. The other options were humility, likability, empathy and logic. Men vs. women From a gender perspective, both … Read full-story <\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":5857,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,65,6],"tags":[19,36],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5850"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5850"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6415,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5850\/revisions\/6415"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}