What are the in-demand and growth skills employers seek when hiring for jobs related to your courses? Answering this will give you the means to incorporate these skills into your courses, so making your students future-ready.
The chart below looks at the Common, Specialised and Software skills employers are requesting for the "other avenues" we identified in Step 1 for International Business MBA graduates. Within the three skill types, we have sorted the top 20 in-demand skills into four groups:
Rapidly Growing - increasing in demand significantly faster than the market as a whole.
Growing - generally outpacing the market but not as significantly as the first group.
Stable - demand is tending to grow in line with the overall market.
Lagging - may be positive or negative growth, but below the market as a whole.
What does this all mean?
Having gained a better understanding of the jobs your graduates are doing and who they are working for, and having identified the growing skills employers are looking for when hiring for the top jobs available to them, it's time to shout about it.
Below are three ideas of how a business school - which we've named Strathmore - might go about promoting itself to prospective students, having undertaken Steps 1 and 2. As you can see, Strathmore is able to promote itself as a future-ready, careers-driven, skills-based business school - a claim that is based on solid evidence, and which therefore marks it out from its cometitors.
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