"It's clear that students and parents expect maximum return on investment from a college education," a High Point University spokesperson told Fortune.
One professional who followed a decidedly squiggly career pathway before doing a six-month bootcamp in 2020 is Lucy Ironmonger, a tech lead at fintech Zuto, who studied English with creative writing at the University of Birmingham 13 years earlier. While there, she found a bar job and, due to her love of music, seized the opportunity to run the establishment's music night every Tuesday.
The narrow definition of success for adolescents has persisted and pressured teenagers for decades. Good test results, high grades, and admission to reputable colleges have been considered the ultimate signs of success in youth. Since children enroll in school, their achievements are quantified in terms of figures on report cards and scores on standardized tests. Although these measures provide a perspective of academic aptitude, they do not always reflect the multivariate and multidimensional nature of success.
If hard skills are increasingly being automated, employers are shifting focus to what AI can't replicate: creativity, empathy, critical thinking, and other essential soft skills. For years, technical abilities were king, but the tide may be turning. Indeed's Hiring Lab took a look at job postings and analyzed which soft skills were listed. The top were communication, leadership, and organizational prowess. Forty-three percent of all job listings had at least one soft skill advertised.
Soft skills are essential in the modern workplace, as employers increasingly prioritize emotional intelligence, adaptability, communication, and collaboration alongside technical expertise.
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