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Workplace Basics: The Competencies Employers Want

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New CEW report highlights the five most in-demand competencies across the labor market

The Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce released a new report that explores how 120 knowledge areas, skills, and abilities are demanded across the workforce and within specific occupations. Workplace Basics: The Competencies Employers Want finds that communication, teamwork, sales and customer service, leadership, and problem solving and complex thinking are the five most in-demand competencies across the labor market, while strength and coordination are the least in demand.

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Workers need more than education to qualify for jobs that pay well. A new report from the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce explores how 120 knowledge areas, skills, and abilities are demanded across the workforce and within specific occupations. How can competencies and education level affect workers’ earnings? Read to find out: https://bit.ly/3ebyxr1

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The latest research from the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce reveals that #competencies that are in lower demand overall often still yield high earnings for workers in specific occupations. In STEM occupations, a mastery of competencies such as engineering and mathematics is associated with high earnings, even though these competencies are in lower demand across the labor market. https://bit.ly/3ebyxr1

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Although only 8% of blue-collar workers have a bachelor’s degree or higher, new research from the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce shows that workers with less education can earn more than workers with more education if they use in-demand #competencies intensively on the job. https://bit.ly/3ebyxr1

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The Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce released a new report that highlights the top 5 competencies in demand across the labor market:

– Communication
– Teamwork
– Sales and customer service 
– Leadership
– Problem solving and complex thinking

Read the full report to learn more: https://bit.ly/3ebyxr1

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What knowledge, skills, and abilities do workers need to boost their earnings? A new report from the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce finds that some general competencies, such as communication, are in high demand across the labor market, but that demand for #competencies varies from occupation to occupation. https://bit.ly/3ebyxr1

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The latest report from @GeorgetownCEW reveals that the top 5 competencies in demand across the labor market are all general #competencies:

– Communication
– Teamwork
– Sales and customer service 
– Leadership
– Problem solving and complex thinking

https://bit.ly/3ebyxr1

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Knowing how the required #competencies vary depending on the job can help students and workers prioritize which knowledge, skills, and abilities to develop. @GeorgetownCEW’s new report outlines the competencies valued in each occupation: https://bit.ly/3ebyxr1

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Formal education is not the only way for workers to acquire #competencies. But @GeorgetownCEW’s research shows that #highered may be a way for workers to provide information about their likely cognitive competencies to potential employers. https://bit.ly/3ebyxr1

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.@GeorgetownCEW’s new report reveals that #communication is one of the most demanded #competencies across the workforce—and that using communication intensively can boost workers’ earnings by 20%. https://bit.ly/3ebyxr1

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Research from @GeorgetownCEW reveals that intensive use of in-demand #competencies can enable workers with lower levels of formal education to earn more than those with #college degrees. https://bit.ly/3ebyxr1

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“Workers need to focus not just on college degrees, but on the knowledge, skills, and abilities they need to reach high earnings in their occupations.” – Dr. Anthony Carnevale

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28% of tasks within all occupations are at risk of automation. Read the report here: https://bit.ly/3ebyxr1

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“To compete in the modern economy, workers need a mix of general competencies valued across the labor market and the specific competencies valued in their occupations.” – Megan L. Fasules https://bit.ly/3ebyxr1

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The top five competencies that employers want are all general competencies:
-Communication
-Teamwork
-Sales and customer service
-Leadership
-Problem solving and complex thinking

Read more here: https://bit.ly/3ebyxr1

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Communication has the highest earnings premium associated with higher intensity of use. https://bit.ly/3ebyxr1

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Across the labor market, communication is the most in-demand competency. https://bit.ly/3ebyxr1

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A new report by Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, Workplace Basics: The Competencies Employers Want, explores how 120 knowledge areas, skills, and abilities are demanded across the workforce and within specific occupations.

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