Click Your Fortune #3: Top skills in 10 years - Daniel Suarez

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Click Your Fortune is an interactive, choose-your-own-adventure style series that literally feeds questions from students to knowledgeable experts around the world. This intro video explains it all: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/click-your-fortune-episode-3

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Francis de los Reyes III: Professor, Environmental Engineering, North Carolina State University
Deena Gornick: Executive Coach
Jennifer Indovina: TED Fellow; CEO, Tenrehte Technologies
Daniel Suarez: TED Speaker; Author; Senior Systems Analyst

Actually,

and this goes back to,

you know, questions I ask people in interviews,

the ability to think critically

is a skill that translates

to every single job,

so I always look at that.

If somebody doesn't have the specific skill set

that I need for a particular job

but has demonstrated an ability

to think around difficult problems,

to route around things,

connect people,

that, you can train people on individual skills,

it's that real foundation,

the ability to communicate with people,

analyze problems,

those are critical things.

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