People skills, pre-meds, medical students and doctors

[roethlisburger]

@blossom

Quant, that is not how most folks in the hiring/talent/HR business define people skills.

There is a large and growing body of literature about “people skills” and the extroverted, sales type personality that you describe is a pretty small piece of it.

And “social success” is often not even included. There is ABUNDANT evidence that serial killers for example- often present with enormous social success.

I think you’re mixing up the terms sociopath and psychopath, but that aside, are you claiming people with antisocial personality disorder can’t have good people skills? From the articles I’ve looked at, there’s a high percentage of psychopaths in C level positions, corporate boardrooms, and on Wall Street. I’m betting there’s a large disconnect between what HR says companies want and who companies select for their top positions.