According to a recent FlexJobs poll, 39 percent of workers would choose a hybrid work schedule in the event of a pandemic. Employers are taking attention, with 66 percent exploring a redesign of their offices to allow hybrid work, which is expected to enhance productivity by 4.6 percent. Due to the nature of hybrid schedules, you’ll need to mix your remote and in-person talents to develop a hybrid skillset in order to succeed in your profession.

Defining the Hybrid Workplace

Some remote work and some in-office work make up hybrid jobs. The particular hybrid schedule, however, varies in each workplace. Here are a few examples:

• Every week, there are days when you work from home and days when you work from the office.
• The majority of employees work from home, with a few days spent in the office.
• Everyone works at the office most of the time, with a few exceptions.

Because hybrid employment implies various things to different firms, ask the following questions while you are looking for and interviewing for hybrid jobs:

• Is it possible for everyone at all levels of the firm to work a mixed schedule?
• What are the expectations for working in an office vs. working from home?
• Do the hybrid parameters come from the firm, or do individual teams choose the hybrid schedule that works best for them?
• How is employee information transmitted and accessed by all employees, regardless of location?

Soft Skills for Hybrid Workplace Success

To uncover the capabilities job candidates need to perform in a hybrid role, Flex Jobs worked with PAIRIN, a trusted technology partner to today’s major workforce initiatives, governments, and education systems. “Because hybrid models involve workers working in both remote and office contexts, the abilities essential to be successful will bridge both. People will be able to self-manage and manage their time better if they have skills like compliance and service orientation.”

Finding a Hybrid Job

Flex Jobs has determined the 10 profession areas with the most hybrid job ads in the Flex Jobs database between January 1, 2021, and October 31, 2021, to assist job seekers to connect with hybrid workplaces. We have put the most crucial soft skills recognized by PAIRIN that professionals need to prosper beside each career area.

1.     Sale:

Influential Leadership: The capacity to influence others’ decisions in a favorable way by concentrating on what matters to them and establishing consensus.

Conflict Management: The capacity to negotiate and resolve problems successfully.

2.     Project Management:

Relationship Management: To successfully manage encounters by being mindful of one’s own and others’ emotions.

Collaboration & Teamwork: To pool resources and efforts with others in order to achieve a shared objective. To collaborate with a variety of teams in a productive and polite manner.

3.     IT & Computers

Creativity: The drive to think, act, and express oneself in unconventional ways. This comprises personal adaptations of known or current procedures as well as own elaborations.

Originality: The capacity to independently discover or think of first-class ideas, processes, or goods, regardless of their use.

4.     Medical & Health

Service Orientation: The capacity to recognize, anticipate, and address people’s frequently unstated needs through help and goods. The desire to increase client loyalty and satisfaction.

Supportiveness: The desire to help, protect, and provide for people who are experiencing mental or physical distress.

5.     Finance & Accounting

Social Awareness: Individual or wider societal groups’ sentiments, wants, and problems are related to and responded to through social awareness.

Relationship: The desire to get close to and loyal to another person or persons, to actually connect with them and enjoy engaging with them.

6.     Marketing

Flamboyance: The desire to impress or excite people by using words or actions to do so.

Influential Leadership: The capacity to influence people to make favorable decisions by concentrating on what matters to them and establishing consensus.

7.     Education & Training

Cooperative-Practical: The moderation of reason and feeling that results in calm, sensible thinking that is optimistic, attentive, and realistic.

Creativity: The drive to think, act, and express oneself in unconventional ways. This comprises personal adaptations of known or current procedures as well as own elaborations.

8.     Customer service

Supportiveness: The desire to help, protect, and provide for people who are experiencing mental or physical distress.

Conflict Resolution: The capacity to negotiate and resolve problems successfully.

9.     Administrative

Service Orientation: The capacity to recognize, anticipate, and address people’s frequently unstated needs through support goods or services. The desire to increase client loyalty and satisfaction.

Supportiveness: The desire to help, protect, and provide for people who are experiencing mental or physical distress.

Flamboyance: The desire to impress or excite people by using words or actions to do so.

10.  HR & Recruiting

Compliance: Global tendency to retain self-discipline and adhere to someone else’s plan, rules, will, or direction.

Perceptivity: The desire to comprehend one’s own and others’ emotional and cognitive processes.