How to Get a Job: Why Employers Value Emotional Intelligence
How to Get a Job: Why Employers Value Emotional Intelligence
Check out why it is so important to understand how your emotional intelligence may impact your ability to get a job. If you are interested in reading the book by Daniel Goleman that I refer to here, it is called Emotional Intelligence: Why it Can Matter More than IQ. In our book, It’s Not You It’s Your Personality, Toni Rothpletz and I write about the major personality tests that employers use. We include a very detailed chapter about the importance of understanding emotional intelligence in the workplace.
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Top 5 Sources of Emotional Intelligence Information
Emotional Intelligence or EI has received a lot of attention thanks to Dr. Daniel Goleman and others. There are several definitions of EI, but one of the most basic definitions is: The ability to understand your own emotions as well as those in others. I have a lot of my doctoral students working on dissertations involving emotional intelligence.
I know that there are a lot of books about EI, but I thought I’d share with you some of the ones that I find most helpful. If you are interested in finding out more about EI, I suggest you check out the following:
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General Resource of Understanding Emotional Intelligence: Emotional Intelligence: 10th Anniversary Edition; Why it Can Matter More Than IQ by Daniel Goleman . . . click here.
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Great Resource to Compare 3 Models of Emotional Intelligence: Emotional Intelligence: Key Readings on the Mayer and Salovey Model by Peter Salovey, Marc Brackett and John Mayer . . . Click here – Excellent resource for those doing research on EI that want to compare the basics of Mayer & Salovey, Bar-On and Goleman’s work. There is a great table on page 88.
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Important Work by Reuven Bar-On: The Handbook of Emotional Intelligence: Theory, Development, Assessment, and Application at Home, School and in the Workplace by Rueven Bar-ON and James Parker with a forward by Daniel Goleman. . . Click here.
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Good Resource for Emotional Intelligence at Work: The Emotionally Intelligent Workplace by Cary Cherniss and Daniel Goleman . . . Click here.
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Exercises to Increase Emotional Intelligence: Emotional Intelligence in Action by Marcia Hughes, Bonita Patterson and James Bradford Terrell . . . Click here. I received my EI certification training through Marcia Hughes’ group.
I know I said I would include the top 5 . . . but for those of you interested in my dissertation: Examination of the Relationship Between Emotional Intelligence and Sales Performance . . . Click here.