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Exploring beyond the given scope is not a character trait, it is a measurable competency that accelerates your learning, your innovation and your visibility at work.
Curiosity is the ability to actively seek new information, to explore different fields and to ask questions that enrich one's understanding and generate ideas.
It differs from dispersion, which jumps from one topic to another without ever consolidating: professional curiosity remains oriented towards a usable learning outcome. Concretely, it is the person who, on a file they do not know, goes to read what other sectors do before proposing a solution.
Like all Core Skills, it is not a personality trait but a trainable cognitive ability, which rests on identifiable mechanisms and expresses itself in observable professional behaviours.
What kinds of tasks: monitoring and benchmarking, R&D, consulting on an unknown sector, taking up a new role.
In which contexts: moving technologies, changing regulations, new market (when knowledge becomes obsolete quickly).
At what level of mastery: spotting on one's own what one does not yet know and finding it out before being asked.
Curiosity belongs to the Innovation & Communication family of our framework of 18 soft skills (Rising Up Core Skills).
In a fast-changing professional environment, curiosity is a measurable driver of performance:
Cognitive neuroscience has shown that curiosity is not only a disposition: it is a state that can be triggered, which mobilises the reward circuits and improves memorisation, including of information unrelated to the object of curiosity. This is what makes it a trainable lever for continuous learning, and not merely a character trait.
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In hiring, measuring curiosity in advance detects candidates who learn faster on the job, regardless of their initial degree.
Institutions that certify curiosity strengthen the employability of their graduates in innovation, R&D, research, consulting and entrepreneurship.
This soft skill is embedded in our development paths and certifying assessments at Rising Up.
Book a demoIn teams that must innovate and learn faster, past expertise does not guarantee that the talent will explore beyond their job description. The Rising Up Soft Skills Scan objectively measures curiosity in your talents to identify profiles who will accelerate internal innovation. The result: more usable ideas, accelerated collective learning and stronger appeal to learning-oriented profiles. This competency is particularly important for innovation managers, R&D engineers, researchers, consultants and entrepreneurs.
CV and interview no longer suffice to distinguish real oriented curiosity from mere politeness or scattering. The Rising Up Soft Skills Scan measures curiosity before the interview through several contextualised evaluation methods, and gives you actionable behavioural data. You gain an objective behavioural signal to limit the risk of a bad hire on innovation, R&D and research roles. This competency is particularly important for innovation managers, R&D engineers, researchers, consultants and entrepreneurs.
Employers in innovation, R&D and research fields expect graduates to demonstrate measurable oriented curiosity that a traditional curriculum rarely measures objectively. The Rising Up Soft Skills Scan measures this competency, develops your students through the Soft Skills Enrichment programme, then certifies their level at the end of the curriculum. You strengthen graduate employability. This competency is particularly important for innovation managers, R&D engineers, researchers, consultants and entrepreneurs.
Through the Rising Up Soft Skills Scan, curiosity is measured scientifically on a 0-100 scale, using different evaluation methods, from situational exercises to contextualized questionnaires, calibrated by our scientific team, led by Dr Nawal Abboub (PhD in cognitive science, lecturer at ENS-PSL, co-founder of Rising Up), in collaboration with researchers from the CNRS, ENS-PSL and Université Paris Cité.
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Rising Up is recognised as Deeptech by the European Innovation Council (EIC) since 2023.
Then, the modules of the Soft Skills Enrichment programme allow you to improve this skill through exploration challenges, realistic simulations and reflections guided by our proprietary CoreSkills AI.
Scattering refers to a loss of focus: jumping from one topic to another without going deeper or drawing any conclusion. Professional curiosity is different: it is an appetite for exploration that stays oriented toward useful learning and action.
A curious person digs into a topic until they extract usable knowledge. A scattered person only skims without ever consolidating. Rising Up measures oriented curiosity, not scattering.
Yes. Contrary to the popular belief that curiosity is a fixed trait, cognitive science research shows it is a trainable competency that strengthens through repeated practice (structured exploration, note-taking, peer feedback).
Our Soft Skills Enrichment programme offers exercises to develop curiosity at any age, with AI-based progress tracking through CoreSkills AI.
Declared curiosity is not observed curiosity.
The Rising Up Soft Skills Scan evaluates curiosity by combining situational exercises and contextualized questionnaires where the candidate must choose between following the strict brief or exploring an adjacent path rich in learning. It is the in-context response that is scored, never an abstract self-assessment.
Work environments are changing faster than at any other moment. Behavioural skills predict professional success, contribute to it causally, and can be developed (research by James Heckman, Nobel laureate in economics).
It is the foundation of continuous learning, essential in a world where technical skills (software, tools, methods) evolve within a few years, while behavioural skills are built and endure. Without curiosity, an employee quickly becomes outdated, regardless of their initial training.
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