“…These skills are often transferable, enabling working professionals to move from one industry to another, as Huang et al (2021) found. Scholars have demonstrated the necessity and feasibility of teaching in-demand soft skills in TPC classrooms, helping students to recognize that acquiring soft skills “may be even more important than learning technical tools or new research methods” (Anthony & Garner, 2016; Rose et al, 2020, p. 7). To develop students’ soft skills, instructors can incorporate multiple assignments into their curricula, such as cases, scenarios, self-evaluation, and interviews, to cultivate students’ positive attitudes and work ethics and develop their teamwork, leadership, empathy, oral and written communication, problem-solving, and critical thinking skills.…”