{"id":60975,"date":"2017-10-12T14:45:50","date_gmt":"2017-10-12T18:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=60975"},"modified":"2017-10-12T17:44:06","modified_gmt":"2017-10-12T21:44:06","slug":"for-a-long-successful-career-linkedin-says-nothing-beats-a-liberal-arts-major-kopf-wang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2017\/10\/12\/for-a-long-successful-career-linkedin-says-nothing-beats-a-liberal-arts-major-kopf-wang\/","title":{"rendered":"For a long, successful career, LinkedIn says nothing beats a liberal arts major [Kopf &#038; Wang]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/1092418\/college-majors-are-more-specialized-now-but-linkedin-says-liberal-arts-might-still-be-the-better-choice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>For a long, successful career, LinkedIn says nothing beats a liberal arts major<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from qz.com by Dan Kopf and Amy Wang<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cThere is a real concern that these labor-market-oriented degrees that focus on specific technical skills are not as durable,\u201d says Guy Berger, a LinkedIn economist and one of the researchers who worked on the report. Berger believes that \u201ccross-functional skills\u201d like management and analytical know-how are more adaptable across a range of work environments. As technology changes the nature of work across nearly every industry, it\u2019s important to have a wide range of such talents, rather than a narrow subset applied only to a particular sector that may not look the same in the near future (or, indeed, exist at all).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a long, successful career, LinkedIn says nothing beats a liberal arts major &#8212; from qz.com by Dan Kopf and Amy Wang Excerpt: \u201cThere is a real concern that these labor-market-oriented degrees that focus on specific technical skills are not as durable,\u201d says Guy Berger, a LinkedIn economist and one of the researchers who worked [&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":[113,360,61,174,364,115,302,45,343,82,3,234,79,163,216,560,284,480,66,460,214,90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-biology","category-business-side-of-he","category-career-development","category-chemistry","category-colleges","category-community-colleges","category-computer-science","category-education","category-engineering","category-higher-education","category-history","category-liberal-arts","category-mathematics","category-microsoft","category-parents-guardians","category-physics","category-society","category-student-related","category-technology-general","category-universities","category-englishwriting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60975"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60981,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60975\/revisions\/60981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}