Soft skills are more important than they’ve ever been, but quantifying them—particularly when you’re looking for a new position—can be difficult. Right now, more than 6 million job listings on ZipRecruiter include “communication skills” as a requirement. “Even without looking at a specific job listing, we can probably imagine that every job is going to require the same set of soft skills: teamwork skills, communication skills, problem-solving skills, time management skills,” says Gorick Ng, a Harvard career adviser and author of