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Sustaining a difficult goal over time is neither stubbornness nor luck: it is a measurable competency that distinguishes the employees who actually reach their objectives.
Perseverance is the ability to sustain effort, to overcome obstacles and to pursue a goal to completion.
It differs from stubbornness by a simple criterion: the perseverer adjusts the method without changing the goal, the stubborn person keeps the method and ends up losing the goal. Concretely, it is the person who, after three successive refusals, changes commercial approach rather than changing target (or job).
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: long sales cycle, multi-year project, thesis or research, entrepreneurship, organisational transformation.
In which contexts: prospecting, R&D, tough market (when the outcome is far off and initial motivation runs out).
At what level of mastery: holding the goal after several failures, changing method each time.
Perseverance belongs to the Operational Effectiveness family of our framework of 18 soft skills (Rising Up Core Skills).
In a demanding professional environment, perseverance is a measurable driver of performance:
In roles with a long horizon (entrepreneurship, research, extended sales cycles), perseverance distinguishes those who see projects through from those who only shine on short tasks.
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In hiring, measuring perseverance in advance detects candidates who will hold their objectives despite setbacks, a central criterion on long-term roles.
Institutions that certify perseverance strengthen the employability of their graduates in entrepreneurship, sales, research and long-term project roles.
This soft skill is embedded in our development paths and certifying assessments at Rising Up.
Book a demoIn long-term projects and long-cycle sales roles, motivation alone does not guarantee that the talent will hold the objective despite setbacks. The Rising Up Soft Skills Scan objectively measures perseverance in your talents to identify profiles capable of adjusting the method without changing the goal. The result: projects completed more often, stronger loyalty and collective endurance culture. This competency is particularly important for entrepreneurs, sales professionals, researchers, long-term project managers and PhD candidates.
CV and interview no longer suffice to distinguish real result-oriented perseverance from mere stubbornness or volatile enthusiasm. The Rising Up Soft Skills Scan measures perseverance 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 tenacity-demanding roles. This competency is particularly important for entrepreneurs, sales professionals, researchers, long-term project managers and PhD candidates.
Employers in entrepreneurship, sales and research fields expect graduates to demonstrate measurable perseverance 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 entrepreneurs, sales professionals, researchers, long-term project managers and PhD candidates.
Through the Rising Up Soft Skills Scan, perseverance 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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Then, the modules of the Soft Skills Enrichment programme allow you to improve this skill through endurance challenges, realistic simulations and reflections guided by our proprietary CoreSkills AI.
Stubbornness means sticking with a method that fails, ignoring evidence to the contrary. Perseverance is different: it means keeping the goal while adjusting the method when the previous one fails.
A perseverant person listens to failure signals and changes approach. A stubborn person ignores them. Rising Up measures result-oriented perseverance, not stubbornness.
Yes. Cognitive science research shows that perseverance is a trainable competency at any age, contrary to the popular belief that it is a fixed personality trait.
Our Soft Skills Enrichment programme offers structured exercises (mini-challenges with programmed setbacks, journaling, peer feedback) to develop perseverance.
Declaring yourself perseverant is easy; being so in situation is harder.
The Rising Up Soft Skills Scan evaluates perseverance by combining situational exercises and contextualized questionnaires where the candidate must maintain a goal against simulated obstacles. It is the in-context response that is scored, never an abstract self-assessment.
Behavioural skills predict professional success, contribute to it causally, and can be developed (research by James Heckman, Nobel laureate in economics).
It predicts the ability to sustain strategic projects, to bounce back after failure and to stay in demanding roles. Without perseverance, a talented employee may shine on short tasks but fail on long-term challenges.
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