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Seattle Jobs Initiative (SJI) is a nonprofit organization that creates opportunities for people to support themselves and their families through living-wage careers. SJI offers low-income individuals training that leads to college credentials in growing local industry sectors. A hallmark of SJI's program is the integration of soft skills into our training curriculum. This grew largely out of early and ongoing communication to SJI by our employer partners that soft skills are the most important attribute -and the most difficult to find -among entry-level job applications. Outside of this evidence, however, SJI has only a limited base of research supporting the importance of soft skills to local employers.