5 Soft Skills to Showcase in an Interview

By Miriam Salpeter

If you are extremely qualified, have terrific application materials, a targeted resume and you're interviewing for jobs, but always coming up with a silver medal, it's possible that you're bumping up against an elusive category: likability. Also known in the industry as "cultural fit," likability is a reason that many candidates don't make the final cut -- the interviewers either didn't like them or didn't believe they would mesh well with current employees.