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Don't underestimate the value of social skills - Boston Globe
Many fields that used to be havens for loners, like programming, increasingly require exceptional people skills. "The jobs that are staying in the United States are those that require regular touch, face-to-face contact with clients or a manager," says Erran Carmel, chair of the information technology department at American University. The people landing those jobs have great social skills because of the difficulty of "managing teams that are distributed across cultures," he says. More from BostonWorks