{"id":6526,"date":"2017-03-13T16:10:52","date_gmt":"2017-03-13T16:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2017\/03\/13\/liberal-arts-education-helps-graduates-adapt-to-the-workforce\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T14:55:57","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T18:55:57","slug":"liberal-arts-education-helps-graduates-adapt-to-the-workforce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/liberal-arts-education-helps-graduates-adapt-to-the-workforce\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberal arts education helps graduates adapt to the workforce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Worthy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenvilleonline.com\/story\/news\/local\/2017\/03\/12\/liberal-arts-education-helps-graduates-adapt-workforce\/98536196\/\"><em><strong>The Greenville News <\/strong><\/em><\/a>talks to career services officials at Furman University and Converse College who argue that employers are looking for more than academic acumen and a high-powered degree from their candidates.\u00a0John Barker, Furman\u2019s assistant vice president for career and professional development, said a liberal arts education helps graduates develop soft and transferable skills that can help them adapt and thrive in the workforce. \u00a0Said Barker, \u201cNo.1 is communication, almost always,\u2013followed by a strong work ethic, teamwork, analytical skills and problem solving skills &#8230; Liberal arts tends to cultivate [those skills].&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Worthy of The Greenville News talks to career services officials at Furman University and Converse College who argue that employers are looking for more than academic acumen and a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":4521,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,63,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-administrative","category-career-services","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}