Likability Is an Essential Career Skill

50 tips to help you thrive in the 21st century

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Robots will replace humans soon. They will take away most of the jobs from us.

How will you survive?

While robots can do IQ tasks better than humans, we still need humans for tasks that require EQ.

If you want to survive over the next few decades, raising your emotional intelligence is critical. You can’t survive alone. You must work with or for other people to thrive in the world. And guess what? People work with people they like.

Likability is a skill so complex that some people call it the X-factor. It is so powerful that many companies reject people if they don’t like them, even if they are overly qualified for the job. Instead, they choose someone who is more likable that has just enough technical skills.

That’s because learning technical skills is easy, while learning to become likable is a tough job.

The good news is that it’s possible to become more likable. Here’s everything I’ve learned about likability.