Liberal arts majors gain valuable skills that will help in your careers.
Here's a short list.
This article is one in a series excerpted by permission from
How
to Get Any Job with Any Major,
Ten Speed Press, (c) 2004 Donald Asher. To reproduce, write to
Donald Asher.
Donald Asher, also known as "America's Job Search
Guru," is the author of nine books on career-development issues.
- Writing
- Speaking
- Foreign languages and cross-cultural knowledge
- Numeracy
- Research and information retrieval
- Analytical thinking
- Creative thinking
- Effective with ambiguity
- Learning and synthesizing new ideas
This material is from a handout from a Job Search Success for Liberal Arts
Majors Teleconference, 2003, Donald Asher and Howard Figler, used
with permission. Also presented in greater detail in
How
to Get Any Job with Any Major, Ten Speed
Press, (c) 2004 Donald Asher, used with permission. Donald Asher, also
known as "America’s Job Search Guru," is the author of nine books on
career development issues, and is a contributor to WSJ online at CareerJournal.com
and CollegeJournal.com, NACE Journal, San Francisco Chronicle, jobstar.org,
monstertrak.com, and similar. He is well known to career services staff nationwide
as a speaker and consultant on hidden job market and self-directed search issues.
He is the keynote speaker for the Career Development Series of national
teleconferences sponsored by the University of Tennessee. He presents
at over 100 colleges and universities annually. His books of interest
include How
to Get Any Job with Any Major,
Asher’s
Bible of Executive Resumes,
The
Overnight Resume,
From
College to Career, and
Graduate
Admissions Essays. When not on the road, Asher divides his time between
San Francisco and Northern Nevada.
To reproduce this article, write to Donald Asher.
Be sure and take advantage of all of Donald Asher’s terrific material for
college students and new grads, as well as all of our Quintessential Careers
resources for those seeking entry-level jobs.
