{"id":49905,"date":"2015-04-17T14:33:50","date_gmt":"2015-04-17T18:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=49905"},"modified":"2015-04-23T11:04:56","modified_gmt":"2015-04-23T15:04:56","slug":"the-skills-agenda-preparing-students-for-the-future-google-the-economist-intelligence-unit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2015\/04\/17\/the-skills-agenda-preparing-students-for-the-future-google-the-economist-intelligence-unit\/","title":{"rendered":"The skills agenda: Preparing students for the future [Google; The Economist Intelligence Unit]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/googleforeducation.blogspot.com\/2015\/04\/the-skills-agenda-preparing-students.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The skills agenda: Preparing students for the future<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from Google and The Economist Intelligence Unit<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">As technology becomes more pervasive, traditional trades disappear and the world of work becomes more globalised, the skills considered to be valuable for the future are shifting.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Problem solving, team working, and communication (a trifecta commonly known as \u201c21st century skills\u201d) are the most-needed skills in the workplace, according to our recent surveys of business executives, students and teachers. Digital literacy and creativity\u2014 and the latter\u2019s close relative, entrepreneurship\u2014are expected to grow more important in the next three years.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-q5yMGB3DpOw\/VTEV0qja_uI\/AAAAAAAAE0E\/JjCJxxiLnBo\/s1600\/image00.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Addendum on 4\/23\/15:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/susanadams\/2015\/04\/15\/the-college-degrees-and-skills-employers-most-want-in-2015\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The college degrees ad skills employers most want in\u00a02015<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from forbes.com by Susan Adams<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The hiring picture keeps getting better for college graduates. According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.naceweb.org\/s04152015\/job-outlook-spring-update-hiring-plans.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">new survey<\/a> by the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE), employers are planning to hire 9.6% more graduates for their U.S. operations than they did from the class of 2014. That\u2019s a one percent hike from the 8.6% gain a year ago and a significant jump from 2013, when employers said they would boost hiring by just 2.1% over the previous year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The NACE survey also asked employers to rate <strong>the skills they most value in new hires<\/strong>. Companies want candidates who can think critically, solve problems, work in a team, maintain a professional demeanor and demonstrate a strong work ethic. Here is the ranking in order of importance:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-image-positioner\"><\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-16249 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-images.forbes.com\/susanadams\/files\/2015\/04\/Figure-7.jpg\" alt=\"desired skills\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The skills agenda: Preparing students for the future &#8212; from Google and The Economist Intelligence Unit Excerpt: As technology becomes more pervasive, traditional trades disappear and the world of work becomes more globalised, the skills considered to be valuable for the future are shifting. Problem solving, team working, and communication (a trifecta commonly known as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[174,127,433,271,237,289,66,299,445],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-career-development","category-collaboration","category-communications","category-creativity","category-entrepreneurship","category-languages-and-translation","category-student-related","category-workplace","category-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49905"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49948,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49905\/revisions\/49948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}