This just in: Employers want people who can write.
The Wall Street Journal reports that a survey of 180 companies by the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) found 4 of the top 5 skills valued by employers are "hallmarks of a traditional liberal-arts education."
Clear-writing skill was ranked Number 3 (following leadership and teamwork).
“It’s easier to hire people who can write—and teach them how to read financial statements—rather than hire accountants in hopes of teaching them to be strong writers,” head recruiter for the investment firm Morningstar told The Wall Street Journal.
One Morningstar employee—the firm's expert on more than a dozen well-known equity-strategy funds—was a philosophy and classics major who earned a PhD in theology.
Want to improve your job or promotion prospects?
Go back to school and study philosophy (expensive), or read Writing Tools and The Art and Craft of Feature Writing (cheap).
HAT TIP: Thanks to Kevin Daum for informing me of NACE's survey.
