Liberal arts grad seeing hard skills

[Anonymous]

I am good at soft skills: marketing, communications strategy etc. but I haven't taken a single statistics or economics class.

In order to be more competitive in the job market, what hard skill should I look into acquiring?

[Anonymous]

What field are you interested in?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What field are you interested in?

I love marketing and design but I'd like to maybe pursue web development or something more STEM-y

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What field are you interested in?

I love marketing and design but I'd like to maybe pursue web development or something more STEM-y

Then you should learn some programming languages and design software.

[Anonymous]

Excel, Word, Powerpoint, Visio
Microsoft Power BI

You need to become an expert at these. Network with friends in consulting. The above skills will get you started and ahead of the curve at most of those places. Most new grads such at Excel, Visio and anything useful.

[Anonymous]

Military service.

[Anonymous]

Analytics

[Anonymous]

What you discribd is a hard skill.
Soft skill more often is social skill.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What field are you interested in?

I love marketing and design but I'd like to maybe pursue web development or something more STEM-y

Why would you pursue web development if you like marketing and design?

[Anonymous]

OP, if you don't have art or design training, do the world a favor and don't become a designer until you do. People think they can do it, and that's why the market here is flooded with shitty designers who are freelancing through agencies because they're not good enough to actually have a good career doing it. Seriously, if design and art haven't been lifelong passions for you, don't become a designer. don't.