Claire Cain Miller's Article: The Importance Of Social Skills

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Through her newspaper article,Claire Cain Miller makes the argument that social skills are crucial when it comes to acquiring a job. Miller claims that jobs that require socializing and skills, have fared best when comes to salary and employment. She explains that these jobs belong to doctors, engineers, lawyers and child-care workers. Any field that involves socializing and some type of skill is thriving, the reverse is happening for jobs that only require skill like those held by bookkeepers, bank tellers and certain types of engineers. It is these jobs that have performed worst in employment growth in recent years. Miller also goes over the importance of schools implementing social skills courses in their education. She believes that with …show more content…

Miller’s stance on socializing and empathy will be useful in my research because it directly relates to my argument that people ought to not lose their ability to hold conversation in person. Her argument addresses certain issues on technology that I will be discussing in my research paper. Her argument also relates to that of Turkle whom also believes that social skills are a rarity in today 's society, especially with our young. Turkle and Miller’s arguments also relate in the fact that neither believes that technology is the problem, but the ability of people to assimilate to the technology around them without losing their human touch is.Miller uses reliable sources like David Deming, associate professor of education and economics at Harvard University and Michael Horn, co-founder of the Clayton Christensen Institute throughout her article to get her point across to her …show more content…

When it comes to Empathy, Sadri’s view will prove to be constructive to my argument that people ought to not lose their ability to interact in person. His perspective on empathy also matches up with Claire Miller, another one of my sources that I will be using. Both authors discuss empathy from the economic outlook, they each describe the usefulness of this skill when looking for employment. Sadiri uses sources like authors Janet B. Kellett, Ronald H. Humphrey, Randall Goleman, and Carl R.Rogers and Richard E. Farson in Communicating in Business Today to relay his message on empathy. I believe the audience he is trying to reach is that of employees, employers, and business leaders throughout the economy. He wants these people to make sure that they take time in developing this skill because it will affect them in the

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