Millennials suffer from a failure to communicate.

That’s according to a survey from the Hay Group, which foundthat 80 percent of employers are having trouble locating graduateswith “soft skills” to balance their other assets: technical skillsand a good education.

Soft skills, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, arepersonal attributes that enable someone to interact effectively andharmoniously with other people. And most industries, fromengineering and finance to health care, information technology andsales, actually have one soft skill at the top of their lists:communication. That’s an area in which millennials are limited.

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