Soft skills are the personal qualities that make people easy to work with and they’re key for business success.

Here are six important soft skills and the best open-ended interview questions you can ask to help find out whether a candidate is right for your business.

• Communication:  Give me an example of when you had to deal with a difficult team member.  What did you do to communicate properly?
• Adaptability:  Tell me about a time when you were asked to do something for the first time.  How did you react?  What did you learn?
• Culture fit:  What three things are most important to you in a job?
• Collaboration:  Tell me about a time when you had to work with someone who was difficult to get along with.  How did you handle interactions with them?
• Time management:  Describe a time you fell behind schedule.  What went wrong and what would you do differently next time?