In survey after survey, corporate executives and the heads of their human resources
departments say that they are looking to hire college graduates with well-developed
writing, oral communications, and interpersonal skills and with global cultural
awareness and understanding, whatever the graduates' majors might be. At the same
time, these surveys suggest that employers have identified a deficit of these skills
among college graduates.
"While many businesses understand the value of hiring liberal arts graduates, many
hire IT majors and then lament that their new employees lack the most important
quality they seek: communications skills." Students, assuming that employers are
interested only in their majors, frequently dismiss their general education courses.
RSolutions Learning Academy opines that, soft skills complement hard skills (technical),
which are the technical requirements of a job. RSolutions Learning Academy aims
at ALIGNING (360º), above requirement and will create talent bank filled with Knowledge
Economy. The Renaissance of the 12th century was a bridge between the Middle Ages
and the Modern era.
RSolutions Learning Academy is a bridge between aspiring people and Industry. There
are several indications that all institutions imparting technical education will
begin to face scrutiny about "gainful employment" and the value of a degree in the
marketplace. Students are failing to land even entry-level jobs that match the skills
they have trained for.