While recruiting new employees, businesses generally look for the 'hard skills', which are the job-specific skills, such as a good qualification or degree. Obviously, job-related expertise is essential in any profession, and in many other careers. But, it has been seen that when these new workers join the workforce, they sometimes cannot get along well with their colleagues. So, the importance of soft skills, which means how you relate to other people and to work, has come up. This essay shall analyze, why new recruits lack such soft skills, and suggest ways to mitigate the problem.