Liberal Arts Advantage
Students who major in the liberal arts in college are reminded early and often that there aren’t many lucrative career prospects in store for them because they’re not prepared for lives of work.
I disagree.
Business leaders and hiring managers everywhere are desperate to find what liberal arts majors have—communication skills, analytical abilities, cultural awareness, foreign language proficiency, emotional intelligence, leadership characteristics, systemic and dialectical thinking, as well as the ability to be comfortable with ambiguity. Today’s workplace requires all these characteristics, and students of the humanities and social sciences have them.
As time allows, I work with liberal arts students and university career centers to connect students with career prospects beyond the usual recommendations—teaching, publishing, research and non-profits. There’s nothing wrong with any of those fields (except there aren’t very many jobs in any of them), but there’s more on the horizon for liberal arts students than they are led to expect.
If you’re a liberal arts student, or you know one, or you’re a career advisor or a hiring manager, or if you’re simply interested in this idea, please visit:
| Website: | The Liberal Arts Advantage—for Business (www.LiberalArtsAdvantage.com) |
| Blogs: | For English Majors (www.ForEnglishMajors.wordpress.com) The Liberal Arts Advantage (www.LiberalArtsAdvantage.Wordpress.com) |
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