The Growing Importance of Social Skills in the Labor Market [pdf]

Re:The Growing Importance of Social Skills in the Labor Mark... by jasonswett on Friday August 21, 2015 @05:37PM (#10100406)

I definitely have some advice. My social skills still aren't very good but they used to be terrible. I was able to at least improve them.

* Read How to Win Friends and Influence People

* Read The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

* Join Toastmasters (and, importantly, participate!)

* Make it a part of your life to continually study psychology and human nature

My life has also improved personally/professionally/socially since I got fired from my last job in 2013 and went freelance. Having to run my own business has forced me to develop social skills and freelancing has given me the opportunity to regularly change the group of people with whom I'm surrounded, which has allowed me to "collect" people I like along the way, which can happen at a regular job but much more slowly.

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Re:The Growing Importance of Social Skills in the Labor Mark... by WalterGR on Friday August 21, 2015 @05:53PM (#10100477)

   Read How to Win Friends and Influence People

This is a tremendous, potentially life-changing book with a title that is unfortunately a huge turnoff.

This is a book that very much should not be judged by its cover.

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Re:The Growing Importance of Social Skills in the Labor Mark... by rayiner on Friday August 21, 2015 @06:21PM (#10100613)

The title seems skeezy today, but it was written in the 1920's and probably didn't come across that way. It helps to say it in your head in an old time-y documentary voice.

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