# Persistence

Skill · Soft Skills and Communication

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/persistence

Persistence is the personal quality of continuing to pursue a goal or task despite obstacles, setbacks, or slow progress. It is prized in careers requiring long-term effort, such as entrepreneurship, research, sales, and creative work, where success often depends on sustained effort rather than immediate results. Employers and mentors often cite it as a key predictor of long-term achievement alongside talent and opportunity.

Related skills: [Grit](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/grit), [Goal Setting](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/goal-setting), [Resilience](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/resilience), [Self-Discipline](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/self-discipline), [Growth Mindset](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/growth-mindset)

## Open roles requiring Persistence (0)

None of the roles we have read name this skill yet. A large share of the visible corpus has not been parsed for skills, so this is at least as likely to be our backlog as the market's verdict.