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Collaboration as Career Value

Knowing and articulating your approach to working with others can be an asset on the job market

"More graduate programs are also thinking about how to better integrate collaboration and project-based learning into their curricula, especially for doctoral programs....

Collaboration comprises many skills that graduate students develop through the course of their degree programs and careers -- such as 1) communicating with multiple audiences/stakeholders, 2) project management, 3) actively listening to hear, absorb and incorporate the ideas of colleagues, and 4) compromising to reach shared outcomes. Yet people often can’t articulate such important skills in a job search."

Full article: https://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2019/08/26/knowing-and-articulating-how-you-collaborate-others-can-be-asset-job-market