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'Soft skills' became the default a long time ago. There are richer, more deliberate words available: human, transferable, cognitive, core. Here's when each one fits, and why we bother.
Skills get split into two camps - technical on one side, 'soft' or transferable on the other. The split doesn't survive contact with how work actually happens. Every job runs on a mix.
Schools, hospitals, councils, national governments - every organisation that works with skills builds its own taxonomy. People often ask why we don't just have one, and the answer is that 'one' wouldn't fit anyone.