Starting with the last item, the additional skills and knowledge category refers to skills that can be learned by undergoing training, often in connection with a formal assessment, and in this way acquiring an additional qualification or certification. Even so additional formal qualifications like Accounting or Legal Studies are a very important factor for increasing a person’s employability, they are generally not readily recognised as soft skills. In the classical sense and according to the Wikipedia definition the term “soft skills” primarily refers to the first two categories of personal qualities and interpersonal skills including language skills. “The Human Resources Glossary” even limits the definition of soft skills to interpersonal skills (Tracey, 2004). Therefore, I will restrict the scope of this article to the two categories of personal traits and interpersonal skills.