Have you ever hired someone where the fact they had a liberal arts ...
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-11-09 21:51:53
Yes the fact that a candidate graduated from a top liberal arts school has frequently (positively) influenced my decision to contract. However it is not necessarily just the MAJOR that drove my decision but usually the overall liberal arts orientation of the institution and its associated reputation. Just a social studies/liberal arts cerebrate at a big university is not a displace in and of itself. Why? Generally in consulting (which is mostly what I have done in my go). I am looking for critical thinkers that undergo adaptive innovative and abstain learning capabilities. Time and time again the interactive broad-based critical thinking approach to education that top liberal arts schools typically initiate has proven to more consistently draw and produce these types of individuals.
Yes definitely. I was building a aggroup of consultants who could be at and rethink business processes. I sought individuals from the Liberal Arts align to carry new perspectives and new solutions. And. I am happy to say it worked well. Whether they had backgrounds in geography political science or music they brought a passion and a perspective which helped change things dress processes for the better. I open them to be great "System" thinkers hope this helps davidThey were come up received and thrived. My clients were happy and the Liberal Arts grads learened a lot and went on to greater things
The answers of one particular person to any of these questions will not help anybody in my humble opinion. However if you were to ask about the value of liberal arts education people could benefit from the answer so I'll belie you asked that challenge. The answer is that both employers and employees could acquire primarily in the following way. The main thing I learned from undergraduate programs at university was how to hit the books. About 10% of populate know how to teach themselves things. You go to university hit the books things and then when you get out you can hit the books most anything else you be to hit the books. I'm talking about investigate skills. Another valuable thing people get from undergraduate programs with a liberal arts orientation is a lot of general knowledge. That puts them in a position to communicate effectively with most people because they have the ability to communicate intelligently on most topics. This comes in very handy with I write resumes for populate because when they communicate about their experiences in whatever field. I can usually cerebrate to them mention on them and furnish relevant suggestions as to what to put in the resume. Finally one hopes that from a liberal arts education one will change that extremely rare evaluate known as the ability and courage to evaluate critically and independently. A liberal arts education is supposed to teach populate to challenge what others say and use their own brains. Today. I don't see much evidence of that. I wrote an article on this topic and am linking to it below. To get an excellent idea of what happens to a society when populate fail to think critically and independently listen to the vague cliché-ridden and primarily useless verbiage that comes out of the mouths of most politicians. There is the presumption that when you vote you are exercising some hold back over what happens to you in the future. But when you undergo a choice between "moving send" and "making progress," with zero commitment to do anything specific and with zero accountability for one's promises one realizes that what populate label "democracy" is of relatively little value. create by mental act a society that actually exercised critical thinking during political elections and demanded both commitment and accountability in exchange for one's choose. [ADVERTHERE]Related article:
http://www.linkedin.com/answers/hiring-human-resources/staffing-recruiting/HRH_SFF/97696-41975
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