Liberal Arts Majors Need These 8 Skills To Get Ahead
The complementary technical skills are marketing, sales, business, social media, graphic design, data analysis, computer programming, and IT networking.
According to Burning Glass, nearly 955,000 jobs are currently available nationwide to liberal arts majors without any further training or skills. The company published a new report that says that learning just one of those eight technical skills would enable liberal arts graduates to compete for an additional 862,000 jobs.
"These newly available positions fall into occupations such as marketing specialist, operations analyst, and computer programmer, and offer an approximately $6,000 annual salary premium over jobs traditionally open to liberal arts graduates," the report says.
Aside from enhancing liberal arts majors' competitiveness, these specific eight skills were identified because they "could be acquired through a reasonable amount of training, coursework, or internships," Sigelman tells Business Insider.
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