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CAREER SKILLS


Career skills an English major fosters:

• Influencing and persuading
  
• Managing information
  
• Thinking independently
  
• Working with others
  
• Reading critically
  
• Meeting deadlines and managing time
  
• Understanding components of complex problems
  
• Perceiving patterns/structures
  
• Comparing/contrasting
  
• Synthesizing information
  
• Summarizing ideas
  
• Managing a project from conception to completion
  
• Finding solutions to intricate problems
  
• Perceiving the world from multiple points of view
  
• Establishing hypotheses
  
• Gathering information
  
• Using original sources
  
• Interpreting data
  
• Summarizing and presenting information
  
• Evaluating results
  
• Analyzing texts and information
  
• Establishing priorities
  
• Writing creatively
  
• Creating persuasive messages
  
• Using precise language
  
• Assessing an audience
  
• Writing concisely
  
• Drafting documents
  
• Editing
  
• Writing and oral communication skills

Information compiled from UNC-Wilmington's Career Services Center and U of Washington English Advising Career Page.







URL: http://www.siue.edu/ENGLISH/Resources/career_skills.html
Published by: Department of English Language and Literature
Last Update: 15 April 2010 by English Web Manager
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