This week, the Adobe Education team announced the findings of the study titled Seeking Creative Candidates: Hiring for the Future.
This study involved an online survey with 1,068 US hiring managers in July/August this year.
Some of the findings included …
Seventy eight percent of hiring managers believe creativity is required for economic growth and valuable to society (85%), but only 51% think businesses grasp the importance of creativity.
7 in 10 of these managers didn’t think students are prepared for today’s dynamic workplace. Poor communication and the inability to apply skills to a broad set of problems are cited as the top reasons business managers believe students are not prepared to succeed in the workplace of tomorrow.75% of hiring managers expressed agreement that the job market will change significantly over the next five years, they have identified the following skills as being essential for the future being:
– 88% said being tech-savvy,
– 82% having the ability to communicate through digital and visual media, and
– 76% said creativity was an essential skill for the future.
Find out the details of this new study via:
A special webinar discussing these results will be live on:
Thursday 23rd October | 7:00-8:00 a.m. AEDT
Register via – https://does-creativity-matter.attendease.com/
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