Are institutions equipping future professionals with contemporary, updated skills essential to enter and thrive in today’s constantly changing job market? Is attending first-year seminars with embedded skills needed in any profession enough? Entry-level professionals these days need to possess more skills than ever before. Understanding new technologies, being sensitive to diverse cultures, blending trends from different fields, and implementing them appropriately are some much-needed skills. When crafting the curriculum, institutions should focus on the present and include facets of tried and tested practices as part of the instruction.
