This is Find Your Dream Job, the podcast that helps you get hired, have the career you want, and make a difference in life.

I'm your host, Mack Pritchard. I'm also the founder of Max List.

It's a job board in the Pacific Northwest

that helps you find a fulfilling career.

Every Wednesday, I talk to a different expert

about the tools you need to get the work you want.

You can't rely on your credentials alone

when you look for work.

You also have to be good at connecting, communicating, and collaborating with others. Yadikaro is here to talk about how to leverage

your soft skills in your job search. She's a Harvard-trained organizational psychologist

who teaches career skills to professionals around the world.

Yaddi also hosts the Hardcore Soft Skills podcast.

She joins us from Tampa, Florida.

Well, Yadi, here's where I want to start with.

What are soft skills exactly?

Well, that's a very complex and also simple question in the sense that soft skills are

generally those skills that are not considered necessarily technical, although in some cases

they might be technical, but those are the skills that help us deal with people, basically social skills.

So skills like communication, public speaking, creative thinking, storytelling, listening.

So all those skills that help us do the job effectively.

And to help us pretty much interact with people, one quick, interesting thing that I want

to mention is that when the term soft skills came from the military, when they were trying

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