Data on the critical and distinctive skills necessary for those working in the College Student Counseling & Personal Services field from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. College Student Counseling & Personal Services majors need many skills, but most especially Active Listening. The revealed comparative advantage (RCA) shows that College Student Counseling & Personal Services majors need more than the average amount of Operation and Control, Troubleshooting, Management of Financial Resources, Operation Monitoring, Management of Material Resources, Negotiation, Technology Design, Service Orientation, Coordination, Social Perceptiveness, Quality Control Analysis, Persuasion, Management of Personnel Resources, Time Management, Monitoring, Critical Thinking, Active Listening, Systems Analysis, Systems Evaluation, Speaking, Judgment and Decision Making, Complex Problem Solving, Operations Analysis, Active Learning, Reading Comprehension, Instructing, Mathematics, Programming, Learning Strategies, Writing, Science, Equipment Selection, Installation, Equipment Maintenance, and Repairing.
These two visualizations, one a radial chart and one a bar chart, show the same information, a rating of how necessary the following skills are for College Student Counseling & Personal Services majors. Toggle between "value" and "RCA" to see the absolute rating of that skill (value) and the revealed comparative advantage (RCA), or how much greater or lesser that skill's rating is than the average. The longer the bar or the closer the line comes to the circumference of the circle, the more important that skill is. The importance of Operation and Control is very distinctive for majors, but the Active Listening, Speaking, Critical Thinking, Social Perceptiveness, Monitoring, Coordination, Time Management, Service Orientation, Negotiation, Reading Comprehension, Persuasion, Judgment and Decision Making, Complex Problem Solving, Writing, Active Learning, Instructing, Management of Personnel Resources, Learning Strategies, Systems Analysis, Systems Evaluation, Management of Material Resources, Management of Financial Resources, Mathematics, Operation Monitoring, Operations Analysis, Quality Control Analysis, Operation and Control, Technology Design, Troubleshooting, Programming, Science, Equipment Selection, Installation, Equipment Maintenance, and Repairing are the three most important skills for people in the field.