Question

Job postings often state that the successful applicant must have superior critical thinking and problem-solving skills. Yet employers tell college administrators that graduates, both from undergraduate and graduate programs, often lack these skills.

1. Having read this week's assigned materials, how would you define critical thinking?
   
2. Why are employers making these comments? Are they justified?

Your response should be at least 250 words.

Answer 1

Having read this week's assigned materials, how would you define critical thinking?

This is the ability of thinking critically about a situations is an essential for a success in today’s world, both in school time and after completion of school. During the school time, critical thinking is essential for the analysis and problem solving. It’s also required to apply a vigilant critical assessment in the assignments and also demonstrates high-level critical thinking. In workforce, it’s good to think critically to solve problems, assess option, and also plan. The importance of critical thinking is to analyze the ability to think and present evidence of ideas, in a certain extent is simply to accept personal reasoning as satisfactory proof. It also gains various benefit from mastering significant thinking skills, such as better control of personal learning and the empathy for other points of view.

Why are employers making these comments? Are they justified?

The reason why employers are commenting is that, they always need to have a competent and well experienced candidates for every position. Therefore employers are giving these comments so that the college administrator educate the student all skills that are required during their applications to the vacant positions so that they meet with their qualifications and skills to the post.

Most of the employers are justified during the selection process of short listing. Therefore employer are in search of competent candidates for every post and they must best free from any dishonesty which would result poor performance at job level.