Doing Soft Labor

Sometimes a conversation goes to childbirth as women, especially young mothers, who do gentle work get together. You will hear stories of long-term labor, mistakes made by doctors and nurses, caesarean section, intolerable pain, complications and so on. Mothers are always willing to tell their story of "horror" and will tell you all the stories of friends and relatives, but sometimes some people will come up with a story of fast labor. Hello and the most annoying person.

Most people regard empathy, emotional labor, or simply being good at interacting with people, as "soft skills". When I mentioned this on Twitter, people got the opportunity to remember that it is a soft skill that "you can not measure it" in whatever way it is. Skill Of course, this language considers something to be amorphous, soft, or somewhat difficult to portray, but others are concrete, rigorous, task based.

Team work, problem solving, and motivation are accurate benchmarks that are often discussed in the context of soft skills necessary to succeed in the labor market. These skills began to develop early in their lives, and our current excessive safety culture seems to underestimate their importance and weaken their development. In a nutshell, our culture and policy should recognize the importance of developing and maintaining soft skills to preserve the American dreams. Economic and social costs by ignoring these skills will be enormous by eliminating policies that limit primary level employment opportunities, or by reversing the cultural norm that emphasizes child safety Let's see. During the growth period, you need the opportunity to acquire the skills most needed when entering the labor market during adulthood. This makes it possible to achieve higher returns and enhance absolute economic liquidity.

However, not only economists and academics emphasize soft skills, more and more employers in the modern labor market are expanding the gap of soft skills. Peter Cappelli, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, cited a detailed investigation of soft skills in a detailed paper written for the National Economic Research of Bureau in 2014. This report based on employer surveys also found that 93% of employers pointed out that they had skill disparities. However, only 15% answered that 90% of the respondents answered "at least" moderately close to their "making" skills and that one of their skill problems is not enough to concentrate on STEM education was. The problem is the limited pool of skilled IT workers, the essence of discussion of STEM skill shortage.