5 Facts about Soft Skills

What are Soft Skills? Soft skills are personal attributes that enable someone to interact effectively and harmoniously with other people. Recent studies have found that employers think personality skills are just as important, if not more important, than hard skills. 46% of managers said young workers would do well to hone their communication skills and 56% said recent […]

We Need to be Preparing Our Students for These 13 Careers (Starting Now)

We all want to prepare students for careers they’ll love and thrive in. But with globalization and technological advances, is it possible to predict what the future of jobs will look like? While some of today’s jobs will soon be replaced by automation and new careers will be created, two skills will benefit students no […]

Fostering Geriatric Sensitivity through Age Simulation

By Kati Stacy Miranda Kessler, RN-BSN, is the Health Occupations Instructor at Nicholas County Career and Technical Center in West Virginia where she teaches 11th and 12th grade students. The program includes health science courses with the goal of the students obtaining their West Virginia State Nursing Assistant Certification at the end of the two-year program. […]

It’s Time to Focus on Time Management

By Denise Bodart, Realityworks RealCare Product Manager All day, every day, we take steps to manage our time. From coordinating calendars and communicating with loved ones to prioritizing tasks at work and home, we are challenged on a daily basis to balance the time we are given each day. Time management is so important, in […]

Help Your Students Explore Infant-Related Careers with this Free Lesson

By Denise Bodart, RealCare Product Manager We all know how important it is to prepare students for college and career; our increasingly competitive global economy demands it. One way to help ensure your students are college-and career-ready is to provide them with opportunities to explore career pathways relates to your program – and we can […]

6 Reasons to Download our New Employability Skills Curriculum

Soft skills are necessary for getting, keeping and performing well on a job. According to a recent CareerBuilder.com survey, 77% of employers believe that the less tangible soft skills associated with one’s personality were just as important as hard, or technical, skills. Across the country, schools are being mandated to make their students college- and […]