Counter to the prevailing view, soft skills more than quantitative competency have seen the biggest rewards in the labour market over recent years, writes John Burn-Murdoch.
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Counter to the prevailing view, soft skills more than quantitative competency have seen the biggest rewards in the labour market over recent years, writes John Burn-Murdoch.
This is so true and I what I have experienced in my career
Poor people work with their hands. The middle class work with their brains. Rich people work with their mouths.
hand jobs
brainy jobs
oral jobs
Never thought about it like this
Rich people are whores
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Are they controlling for rank? As you go higher in a company the more social skills become primary, but it was still technical competency that got you in the door
Compensation as hourly wage and employment rate should cover all the bases, don't you think?
I don't think so. Hourly rate controls for amount of time worked but not the skill level, type of work, or level of responsibility
This is an interesting shift in the labor market. The more companies adopt AI, the more a person’s soft skills carries a premium.
I don’t see soft skills as a replacement for math skills or technical ability, but there is a growing risk of people using AI to replace rather than supplement technical learning. You can have the most rational, data-driven solution in the world, but if you can’t coordinate with humans to implement (and sell) it, then it’s unlikely to see the light of day.
That's likely to change pretty fast.