According to a 2014 EAB (Education Advisory Board) White Paper, some large companies are turning the search for well-roundedness into a formulaic process. Employers like IBM, IDEO, and Cisco are spearheading initiatives to hire what are being called \u201cT-shaped professionals.\u201d T-shaped professionals are said to possess soft skills or universal competencies (e.g., communication and collaboration skills) represented by the horizontal (\u201cT-top\u201d) and deep knowledge represented by the \u201cT-stem.” Recognizing the importance of building out both dimensions of a student\u2019s \u201cT\u201d, some universities are making T-shaping a central goal of their curricula.<\/p>\n
Citation<\/strong>: Carla Hickman. \u201cCreating T-Shaped Professionals.\u201d EAB White Paper. Washington, D.C.: July 30, 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" According to a 2014 EAB (Education Advisory Board) White Paper, some large companies are turning the search for well-roundedness into a formulaic process. Employers like IBM, IDEO, and Cisco are spearheading initiatives to hire what are being called \u201cT-shaped professionals.\u201d T-shaped professionals are said to possess soft skills or universal competencies (e.g., communication and collaboration … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-development-readiness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.providence.edu\/fhertr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.providence.edu\/fhertr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.providence.edu\/fhertr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.providence.edu\/fhertr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.providence.edu\/fhertr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/library.providence.edu\/fhertr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.providence.edu\/fhertr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.providence.edu\/fhertr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.providence.edu\/fhertr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}