What, exactly, are soft skills? And why do soft skills even matter, when generative AI seems more skilled than most workers today? Soft skills are things like interpersonal communication, work ethic ...

Artificial intelligence is transforming the workplace. Headlines warn about the dire need to reskill and upskill employees and for teams to stay afloat in an increasingly competitive market. But ...

The Fast Company Impact Council is an invitation-only membership community of top leaders and experts who pay dues for access to peer learning, thought leadership, and more. BY Nacho De Marco Here’s a ...

It’s a challenging time to be entering the workforce for the first time. The traditional path of getting a college education or learning a skill, then taking a job and remaining in it for your entire ...

Soft skills, like any skill, can be practiced and improved. While we all have natural strengths and weaknesses when it comes to soft skills, that doesn’t mean they are static, immovable matters of ...

In the movie “The Graduate,” the young character played by Dustin Hoffman is given a simple piece of job advice from his father’s friend in a line that has become one of the movie’s most iconic: There ...

While technical skills remain popular for people looking to improve their career prospects, their ability to communicate and relate with others is also important, and maybe even a growing area of need ...

Move over, cloud computing and mobile development. The skills that matter most today are the ones we mistakenly call “soft.” But there’s nothing soft about them. In fact, soft skills are quickly ...

While there are many different types of skills to look for in a potential communications team member, some can’t be taught in a classroom or through training. So-called “soft” skills, including ...

Founder and Head of the international IT recruitment company Lucky Hunter. Earlier I wrote about soft skills important for a recruiter. Now I would like to talk about soft skills more globally and ...

Retire “soft skills.” Call them what they are. Define them. Model them. That’s how we turn vague language into measurable ...

With a tight labor market and an increase in employees seeking to upskill for the skills transformation happening in the workplace, companies and business leaders are reassessing the skills they deem ...