What Skills Do Employers Seek? Four Perspectives

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Method matters: The importance of understanding the creation of the skillful psychology student.

“…Since its publication in 2018, the SPS has been cited in articles concerning work and career-readiness skills (e.g., Appleby, Appleby, et al, 2019; Appleby, Young, et al, 2019; Collisson & Eck, 2022; Hard & RaoShah, 2022; Hettich, 2021; Troisi, 2021; Vespia et al, 2020), suggested as an integral component of undergraduate curricula (Spencer, 2019, 2021), and integrated into syllabi (Wickline, 2019). It has also informed the American Psychological Association (APA) Introductory Psychology Initiative’s (IPIs) recommendations for student transformation (Chew et al, 2022; Hard et al, 2022), been converted into a measurement used by others to help students self-assess their own skill development (Naufel, 2021, as cited by Troisi, 2021), and integrated into statistics and research methods courses (Wickline et al, 2021).…”