From both government and industry, the message echoes loud and clear: In addition to posting a high score on an IQ test, a job applicant had better put-up some big numbers on an “EQ” test. Employers want to determine that people have emotional intelligence to match their genius.

During the “new depression,” economic and employment statistics have inspired both employers and workers to reconsider the foundations of professional success. The data clearly indicate the value of a college degree, because workers who have at least bachelors’ degrees have kept their jobs at five times the rate of those who have not. Because a score on an IQ test drives a student’s progress through school, more intelligence and more education clearly influence job retention.

Supplemental data suggest, however, team players have retained their jobs at approximately the same rate as college graduates. Emotional intelligence—the ability to manage one’s own feelings, and the ability to read and respond sensitively to the feelings of others—appears to play a role as prominent as that of intellectual capacity. The trend seems most pronounced in healthcare, where women, more naturally in touch with and in command of their emotions, have kept their jobs at nearly seven times the rate among men.

“Nothing can or should replace a traditional IQ test,” says Veronica Gonzalez, HR Specialist for a major southern California healthcare provider, “but we glean far more useful information about a person’s aptitude and potential when we supplement a traditional IQ test with measures of emotional and practical intelligence. Better still, if we go beyond a traditional IQ test to instruments that tell us about how people learn and think, then we can develop strategies and plans for maximizing their potential and optimizing their performance.”

Gonzalez emphasizes the special value of EQ testing in healthcare, where a job applicant’s academic qualifications typically reflect her score on a traditional IQ test, but where it may be difficult to gather information about her fitness for work in an inter-disciplinary team. Gonzalez attaches special importance to EQ testing for physicians. “We know they’re smart. They got into and got through medical school,” she shrugs. “We need to find-out whether or not they have the right stuff genuinely to care about and for our patients.”

Gonzalez reports she frequently takes advantage of the resources at 2h.com. “The site offers a wide variety of tests, so that I always find just the right IQ test for my needs and exactly the right EQ test to complement it.”

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