Here are three crucial factors to have!

Forbes reports.

How To Thrive After College: 3 Obvious But Underrated Skills

If you want to thrive after college — and who doesn’t? — what are the most important intellectual and practical skills for success? Some timely research highlights three crucial factors in employers’ checklists, both of which appear to be underrated in educators’ own list of priorities.

The data was presented yesterday by Carol Geary Schneider, president of the Association of American Colleges and Universities. She spoke at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, which has convened a committee to look into non-traditional ways that students’ success is shaped. That means exploring the realm of what the National Academy calls “intrapersonal and interpersonal capabilities.”

Schneider said she’s concerned that on a broad scale, “higher education is under-performing.” Employers are expressing a growing interest in students’ mastery of personal and social responsibility, with 96% of them saying they want college to develop problem-solving skills in diverse settings. Such inter-cultural skills are prized by only 79% of university respondents.