Dream Job - Can You Get One?

Top 30 Skills needed to secure the job of your dreams!

To secure the job you want there are a number of minimum criteria that wise businesses look for. If you are not prepared you will not be hired. What are you doing to be prepared to get the job of your dreams?

Following are lists of needed skills to prepare for the 21st century.

Harvard School of Law’s Required Skills
1. The ability to define problems without a guide.
2. The ability to ask hard questions which challenge prevailing assumptions.
3. The ability to quickly assimilate needed data from masses of irrelevant information.
4. The ability to work in teams without guidance.
5. The ability to work absolutely alone.
6. The ability to persuade others that your course is the right one.
7. The ability to conceptualize and reorganization information into new patterns.
8. The ability to discuss ideas with an eye toward application.
9-10. The ability to think inductively, deductively and dialectically.

Princeton’s Required Skills
1. The ability to think, speak, and write clearly.
2. The ability to reason critically and systematically.
3. The ability to conceptualize and solve problems.
4. The ability to think independently.
5. The ability to take initiative and work independently.
6. The ability to work in cooperation with others and learn collaboratively.
7. The ability to judge what it means to understand something thoroughly.
8. The ability to distinguish the important from the trivial, the enduring from the ephemeral.
9. Familiar with different modes of thought (including quantitative, historical, scientific, and aesthetic).
10. Depth of knowledge in a particular field.
11. The ability to see connections among disciplines, ideas and cultures.
12. The ability to pursue life lone learning.

George Wythe’s Required Skills
1. The ability to understand human nature and lead accordingly.
2. The ability to identify needed personal traits and turn them into habits.
3. The ability to establish, maintain and improve lasting relationships.
4. The ability to keep one’s life in proper balance.
5. The ability to discern truth and error regardless of the source, or the delivery.
6. The ability to discern true from right.
7. The ability and discipline to do right.
8. The ability and discipline to constantly improve.

Taken from A Thomas Jefferson Education, George Wythe College Press, 2000, p124-130

These skills are not currently taught en mass in our public schools. Fortunately for us, there are people with these skills who forward such thinking. It is imperative that we seek out these skills and add them to our skill set.