Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, 78% of employers consider “soft skills” like communication, problem solving, and people skills to be “very important to success”¹. Only 60% of employers surveyed consider subject-matter expertise to be very important to success². However, in a separate study done by the American Association of Colleges and Universities, only 47% of surveyed employers thought that getting a bachelor’s degree was definitely worth it³. And 8% indicated they had very little confidence in higher education’s ability to prepare students pursuing a bachelor’s degree for the workforce⁴.
¹https://www.kauffman.org/currents/students-need-real-world-skills-for-successful-careers/
²https://www.kauffman.org/currents/students-need-real-world-skills-for-successful-careers/
³https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2021/04/06/aacu-survey-finds-employers-want-candidates-liberal-arts-skills-cite-preparedness
⁴https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2021/04/06/aacu-survey-finds-employers-want-candidates-liberal-arts-skills-cite-preparedness
