Why Top Employers Are Secretly Racing to Hire Liberal Arts Majors—And What It Means for Your Career
Most college graduates make their own luck. They network. They email, Skype and cold-call. They make good use of allies – such as profs, recent alumni, family ties, church and summer-job connections, etc. – who can help open doors that bypass formal HR channels. Liberal arts graduates are good at this. There’s an entire chapter in my book called “My Job Didn’t Exist a Year Ago,” that chronicles the ways international relations majors, psych majors, etc. create such opportunities for themselves.
Schawbel: Some liberal arts schools are going out of business and America is propping up the need for coding skills, yet Google and other companies want to hire liberal arts majors. What does the future hold for a liberal arts education?
