When compared to hard skills, soft skills are highly valued by employers because they are hard to find. The soft skills most often sought by employers include:

• The ability to compromise, negotiate and persuade
• Doing a job thoroughly and correctly
• An ability to admit and correct mistakes
• Good manners, courteous
• Honesty and integrity
• Flexibility and adaptability
• Problem solving - ability to see things from a different perspective
• Enjoys mentoring and teaching and is also open to learning and loves to learn
• Confident but humble
• Ability to lead but also work as part of a diverse team
• Common sense
• Ability to understand and follow directions as well as the ability to think intuitively should problems arise
• Ability to analyze a problem and implement a solution
• Optimism 

The Top Five Soft Skills Every College Student Needs