Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about leadership and performance management. In high-performance organizations, leaders often prioritize technical ...

Your job performance is a combination of your "hard skills" — your technical knowledge and hands-on work product — and your intangible "soft skills," which are taking the American workplace by storm.

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More and more, I'm seeing job recruiters encourage the addition of "soft skills" to your resume—here's when you should (or shouldn't) follow that advice. In recent conversations with job recruiters, I ...