a key point is that these skills - soft skills if you will - can be learned on the job, even with minimal background knowledge. It is much harder to learn programming or electrical engineering on the job if you lack the educational base.
Communication is a critical skill today as are information skills. Truly sad that they are often derided as being worth less than technical skills.
It's not a rare exception, there's a whole class of programming autodidacts, boot campers, physics majors and electrical engineers who pivoted to software. Often the argument against credentialism in the field is to protect such people.
the limited point i was making is that soft skills are easier to pick up as you go along. Software is now approaching that same state. This does not apply to an English major learning the nuance of - say, aviation turbine design. Some fields require extensive study and lots of foundational knowledge.
Communication is a critical skill today as are information skills. Truly sad that they are often derided as being worth less than technical skills.