Soft skills determine career success more than technical expertise. In my last job hunt, I saw a candidate with a mediocre portfolio win the role over a brilliant engineer simply because they could communicate their ideas clearly and read the room. After a decade in tech, I believe employers hire for attitude and train for skill, yet our education system still grades essays and math while team projects are a joke. If a college graduate can code but can't handle conflict with a coworker, aren't they fundamentally unprepared for the actual workplace?