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Emotional Intelligence

How should we view intelligence?  Howard Gardner pointed out that schools usually consider math and language smart students as intelligent and ignore the other types.  What follows is a reading to help put this problem into perspective.

Jesse Brooks was a smart student—

She graduated at the top of her class and believed she would have no problem getting a job. However, after ten interviews and no job offers, she was starting to wonder what was wrong. "At first I couldn't understand it, I mean, I'm intelligent and hard working why couldn't I get a job?" Despite having "academic" intelligence, Jesse was missing the intelligence that many employers are now looking for, emotional intelligence.

Emotional intelligence (El) is the ability 
to understand your own emotions and the

emotions of people around you. More and more companies use El assessment tests to recruit new staff. They have found that people with high El form better relationships with   their   colleagues   and   can   manage themselves better, This benefits the company, in the form of higher productivity and profit. For example, the French cosmetics company,  L'Oreal, started to track the emotional

intelligence of its employees in relation to their productivity. Their studies showed that employees with high El scores sold goods worth in total almost $100,000 more than their colleagues with low El scores. Clearly,  employees with high

emotional intelligence are more valuable to their companies.

Jesse thinks that she spent so much of her college life studying alone that her social skills did not develop well. Determined to get straight As, she had not played any team sports or participated in any school groups, both of which would have helped develop social skills and emotional intelligence. Although she could motivate herself to accomplish a goal, she did not know how to work with others, a key to success in most commercial businesses. Although Jesse might not have a high El now, psychologists believe she can improve it. Jesse says, "I need to identify people who are "natural" leaders, who work well with others and are great motivators. I should watch what they say and how they act in different situations. Then go out, socialize, and try it out in my own life."

Questions

1.     What kind of student was Jesse?

2.     How many job interviews did she have?

3.     What did she start to think?

4.     What are more and more companies testing now?

5.     Why is EQ important?