7 Ways to Land a Job with a Liberal Arts Degree

>> My sales pitch for a Liberal Arts degree would be this. Doing a Liberal Arts degree, I think affords you the opportunity to really kind of have a blank canvas to kind of paint as you will. Having a Liberal Arts degree allows you to kind of hone in on some of the basic needs of communications that are very, very important across the board. Liberal Arts gives you that opportunity to think of those things at an earlier subset, and then you can maybe, you know, direct the canvas in the picture that you're painting to what you want it to be. >> The Liberal Arts degree, I think is one of the most versatile ways that you can enter the work force. It makes for a better writer; it makes for a better critical thinker. You're able to just really, like, I'm able to dive into a new subject every week. It makes you highly adaptable; it makes you think outside the box. >> Those kinds of degrees can prepare you to really encounter and deal with just about anything. And I've found that to be true as a journalist, and I find it to be true as a PR professional; that the education that I received really prepared me to understand information to connect the dots, and then really to share that information with other people. >> A great opportunity to explore literature, explore the arts, get a better understanding of science, dive into math and finance a little bit, understand how the world is shaped through economics and politics, and spend a lot of time with other people from different backgrounds and, that were majoring in other things. >> I took a Latin-American History, and it totally shifted everything that I thought in the world, like, every opinion I ever had, every perspective that I now hold, I now understand there's a totally opposite perspective. And having that opportunity to critically think and critically analyze issues has, you know, helps me every day. >> I didn't realize how important my cultural courses were until I got into my profession because you have different people from different backgrounds from different parts of the world, and they communicate differently and they work differently. You know, operating systems you can learn overnight. You know, inventory you can learn overnight, scheduling type, you can learn overnight, but, understanding somebody culturally or understanding yourself culturally, to be sensitive to them or empathetic to them is not something that you can learn overnight. >> Look, I think there are people who are 17 and they know they want to be doctors and they are ready for that decision. I don't think there's a lot of people that are there when they're 17, so I think a Liberal Arts education is extremely important for some people. Once you have a job, you're going to learn a lot really quickly about the actual day-to-day of what you're doing. So spend a couple years learning about literature and art and science and math and culture and exploring the world because that will make you a better person.