What do employers (and employees) want?

By Margaret Andrews. During the summer I wrote a post entitled "What skills do employers want most?" that generated some traffic and discussion. Since that time, there’s been more support for the need for – and pay-off from – having schools focus more on the ‘soft skills’, including a recent New York Times article that notes, just like in kindergarten, that the most important factor for success in the world of work may be whether one “plays well with others”. Read more...