soft skills

Further, the governor’s office said, “working allows children to learn valuable soft skills that will help them be successful.”

But to really up your income, hard skills like AI proficiency needs to be combined with less tangible soft skills, like interpersonal skills, communication skills, critical thinking and analytical skills, said Lisa Countryman-Quiroz, CEO of JVS, a San Francisco-area nonprofit that provides job training programs.

Enrolling in an AI graduate certificate program might help you land a job that pays more, for example, but to improve your chances of increasing your income even more, it's important to be able to apply soft skills like problem solving while using new technologies.

Soft skills like perpetual learning ability are also critical for boosting your long-term earnings, rather than only relying on hard skills for quick pay bumps.

Instead, employees need to figure out how to combine these types of hard and soft skills, while communicating what they're learning to employers.