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As technology, including emerging tools like generative AI, continues to advance and replace many tasks once performed by humans, a common theme has emerged among employers when asked what kinds of aptitudes they expect and seek out among their workers: soft skills.
While a spreadsheet tool can crunch numbers more effectively than any human and while word processors mean nobody really needs to be a spelling expert, it’s skills like effective time management, leadership, communication, teamwork and other innately human traits that employers feel set great employees apart from their peers.
The challenge with soft skills has always been