A new trend in hiring is to offer jobs to people with degrees in the Humanities and not with Business degrees. As opposed to a BComm, a BA offers actual skills that will be extremely useful in the workplace. Bachelor degrees in business, even from very prestigious schools, are quite useless. These degrees were invented to meet the demand, but since the demand was created by people who had no understanding of the workings of higher education, these undergraduate business programs ended up being completely meaningless. Students who graduate from undergraduate programs in Business, Finance, Marketing, etc. can offer nothing but their enormously overblown expectations as to the salaries they believe they deserve.
People with BAs, on the other hand, are articulate, have great writing, speaking and interpersonal skills. More often than not, they speak more than one language. They are well-rounded and are good conversationalists. They have an openness to the world and its wonders while people who come out of undergraduate business programs often exhibit an attitude of gloomy resentment against the world that didn’t hurry to offer them a huge salary straight out of college.
Of course, the old-school frumpy business owners still haven’t caught up to this new trend in hiring and continue offering positions to the graduates of these hopelessly outdated business programs. But who wants to work for them anyway? They lack vision and can’t create the kind of a workplace where promising, enthusiastic workers will want to stay. New, exciting startups are the places that are spearheading this transformation in hiring practices. As an academic who is now making a killing in the business world said:
Newsflash, grads: if that HR person thinks Humanities degrees have nothing to offer, and that HR department has no way of comprehending why your incredible sense of discipline, focus, and strong communication skills are relevant, then you shouldn’t want to work for that company. Any progressive, modern institution or company nowadays should know that, ironically, those qualities that you possess are easily the hardest to find in the concrete modern business world and, I’d argue, the most important as vehicles of progress and innovation.
The future in business belongs to those who can find and attract the best talent available. And that talent can be found in the Humanities programs of North American colleges.
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