According to a LinkedIn survey released this year, 80% of recruiters say soft skills are increasingly important to a company’s success and therefore becoming more and more desired when considering candidates.

So, what are soft skills? These are the qualities that determine how well we interact with others. They include skills like attitude, communication, creative problem solving/thinking and teamwork. The most in-demand soft skill according to over 5,000 recruiting professionals? Creativity. Simply defined in the survey as “solving problems in original ways—a skill that machines can’t easily replicate.”

While hard skills certainly matter (think education, what you learn through work experience or training); more and more companies are realizing just how important soft skills are. Virtually every job has some form of people engagement and being able to harmoniously and effectively interact with others has a significant positive impact on a company’s ability to overcome challenges, na...