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The Hottest Skills that will Land You the Hottest Jobs

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Questions-300x300A recent Businessweek article highlights the top skills job-seekers need to make the greatest impression on headhunters and future employers. What’s not high up on the list? Involvement in startups. According to the recruiters surveyed in BW’s 2014 b-school rankings, employees who are entrepreneurial thinkers and “cosmopolitan self-starters” aren’t as important as employees who can “write clean e-mails, work in a team, and think analytically.”

Businessweek’s polled 1320 MBA recruiters from various industries, asking them to choose up to five skills or assets from a list of 14. Here’s what they found were most important (the top three) and least important (the bottom three):

68% -- Good communication

60% -- Analytical thinking

55% -- Ability to work collaboratively

15.2% -- Industry-related work experience

12.3% -- Global mindset

8.9% -- Entrepreneurship

See BW’s chart for more details:

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Recruiters said that the following skills/assets were the most difficult to find among job applicants:

47.3% -- Strategic thinking

44.4% -- Creative problem-solving

42.2% -- Leadership skills

Here’s the BW chart on that:

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