Soft Skills Are Increasingly Crucial To Getting Your Dream Job

Employers Struggle To Find Candidates With The Right Soft Skills For 59 Percent Of Their Open Jobs

Guy Berger, Ph.D. , Co-authored by Link Gan

In January, we published a list of the 25 most in-demand skills. As you may have noticed, all of the skills on the list are hard skills -- specific skills that are required to do a job that are learned, like mobile development, channel marketing, and economics. But numerous employers have told us they’re struggling to find candidates with soft skills -- personal attributes that help people interact effectively with others, like communication, teamwork, and critical thinking.Read More