Some employers are giving increased importance to employing people with good social skills in addition to good qualifications. Do you agree or disagree that social skills are as important as good qualifications for success in a job?

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Several employers believe that it is important to recruit someone who
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not only good in terms of meeting the required qualifications, but
also
those who have excellent capabilities in communications, collaborations, and other social
skills
. Others do not have the same opinion.
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with the former statement and
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that all companies around the world need to do the same. Before
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explaining
why
this
is the case, let me briefly explain both perspectives first. The supporters of having good social
skills
in
corporate
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world believe that all employees should not only focus on developing technical
skills
because those specializations are not the most crucial ones when it comes to solving customer problems.
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, in
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every employee is often assigned to a team
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it
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consists of many people. In
this
case, each person needs to show his/her communication and collaboration
skills
in order to achieve the given target. If there is a person in a certain team that cannot implement those capabilities,
then
it will affect the performance of other teammates.
However
, the critics say that social
skills
can be an obstacle
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developing radical ideas.
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, when
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einstein developed his theory of general relativity, he
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against the dominant belief at that time which was
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physics concepts. There
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a lot of debates and extensive experiments to prove whether
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theory was correct or not. Some said that if he
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research with other laboratory members who could challenge his idea, we would not have
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paper
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published
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the first time. Even though there were indeed several conditions in the past that could enable breakthrough discoveries when working alone, I argue that the chance of those major events ever
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again in the future will be very small. The reason for
that is
because nowadays problems faced by humankind are becoming more complex and asymmetric. Many of them often need
collaborations
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between all parties involved. Look at current world issues like climate change, renewable energy, and artificial intelligence. Those challenges cannot be solved even by the smartest human. In conclusion, we need to enhance our partnership and collaboration in order to solve the most difficult problems faced by humanity. In order to do so, we can start developing industry cultures that welcome
team-working
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and communication
instead
of just focusing
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technical aspects and individualism.
Therefore
, employers should prioritize workers
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have social
skills
.
This
will affect
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other aspects of global economies,
such
as education, farming, manufacturing, etc.
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