Skills Expected of Professionals
Your Job Skills Portfolio: Giving You an Edge in the Marketplace - offers information and links about creating a portfolio to showcase your skills. https://www.livecareer.com/quintessential/job-search-portfolio
Selling your Liberal Arts Degree to Employers - a comprehensive article from Indiana University detailing the value of a liberal arts education in terms of employment skills. http://www.uni.edu/reineke/sellladegree.htm
10 Transferable Skills you learned during your College Education - one person's brief overview http://timmathisen.hubpages.com/hub/10-core-skills-developed-from-a-liberal-education
It Takes More than a Major: Employer Priorities for College Learning & Student Success http://www.aacu.org/leap/documents/2013_EmployerSurvey.pdf
Essential Workplace Skills for College Grads - a short but useful article on Monster.com http://career-advice.monster.com/in-the-office/starting-a-new-job/essential-workplace-skills-for-college-grads-hot-jobs/article.aspx
The Challenge of a Liberal Education: Past, Present, and Future - an interesting address that deals with the vocational purpose of higher education, how students need to know themselves and their own goals in order to pursue a vocation, and how colleges can help students in their self-pursuits and vocational pursuits. http://www.aacu.org/liberaleducation/le-sp03/le-sp03feature.cfm
Core Abilities, a project of the Wisconsin Instructional Design System, lists skills and compentencies that employers want. See how many employment skills correlate with academic skills as you review this document. https://vulearninordertoserve.wordpress.com/2012/01/07/core-abilities-essential-workplace-skills-learned-in-the-classroom/