Data on the critical and distinctive skills necessary for those working in the Community College Education field from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Community College Education majors need many skills, but most especially Reading Comprehension. The revealed comparative advantage (RCA) shows that Community College Education majors need more than the average amount of Management of Financial Resources, Management of Material Resources, Management of Personnel Resources, Negotiation, Persuasion, Service Orientation, Time Management, Instructing, Coordination, Learning Strategies, Monitoring, Social Perceptiveness, Systems Evaluation, Systems Analysis, Judgment and Decision Making, Complex Problem Solving, Writing, Reading Comprehension, Active Learning, Critical Thinking, Speaking, Active Listening, Mathematics, Operation Monitoring, Technology Design, Operations Analysis, Programming, Quality Control Analysis, Science, Equipment Selection, Installation, Operation and Control, Equipment Maintenance, Troubleshooting, 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 Community College Education 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 Management of Financial Resources is very distinctive for majors, but the Reading Comprehension, Critical Thinking, Active Listening, Writing, Speaking, Monitoring, Instructing, Time Management, Active Learning, Complex Problem Solving, Judgment and Decision Making, Learning Strategies, Social Perceptiveness, Management of Personnel Resources, Coordination, Service Orientation, Persuasion, Negotiation, Systems Analysis, Systems Evaluation, Management of Material Resources, Management of Financial Resources, Mathematics, Operation Monitoring, Operations Analysis, Technology Design, Science, Programming, Quality Control Analysis, Equipment Selection, Installation, Operation and Control, Equipment Maintenance, Troubleshooting, and Repairing are the three most important skills for people in the field.