arXiv:2608.10046v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Soft skills shape collaboration among ML engineers, data scientists, and software engineers building ML-enabled systems, yet what we know about them comes almost entirely from the demand side. Job advertisements, surveys, and hiring manager interviews capture what employers ask for. How candidates themselves articulate these competencies has not been studied, and existing CV-mining work is both keyword-based, so it cannot see skills conveyed through narrative, and descriptive, reporting frequency rankings without testing whether group differences
Automated soft-skill detection can streamline hiring pipelines, but also raises bias and compliance concerns practitioners must manage with audits and human oversight.
Published to Cognify News · Week 33, 2026