{"id":401,"date":"2012-11-06T22:51:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-06T22:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/2012\/11\/06\/new-report-highlights-employers-need-for-information-literate-staff\/"},"modified":"2018-07-18T21:29:22","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T21:29:22","slug":"new-report-highlights-employers-need-for-information-literate-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/2012\/11\/06\/new-report-highlights-employers-need-for-information-literate-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"New report highlights employers&#8217; need for information literate staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent study by the University of Washington-based research institute, Project Information Literacy, shows that employers want new hires to have basic research skills that allow them to find necessary information.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-0Psn-UYKsww\/UJmTH8CkXfI\/AAAAAAAAAFM\/OiIrYCepaN0\/s1600\/youngProfessionals.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"212\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-0Psn-UYKsww\/UJmTH8CkXfI\/AAAAAAAAAFM\/OiIrYCepaN0\/s320\/youngProfessionals.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">&nbsp;<span style=\"font-size: xx-small\">Image courtesy of&nbsp;    <cite>Encyclop\u00e6dia Britannica Image Quest.<\/cite>&nbsp;    <a href=\"http:\/\/quest.eb.com\/images\/154_2891427?subjectId=0&amp;collectionId=0&amp;keyword=young+professionals&amp;localizeMetaData=false#\">http:\/\/quest.eb.com\/images\/154_289142<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<p>The report entitled &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/projectinfolit.org\/pdfs\/PIL_fall2012_workplaceStudy_FullReport.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">How College Graduates Solve Information Problems Once They Join the Workplace<\/a>&#8221; shows that employers want employees to have a wide range of research skills and expect them to use a variety of information sources (both print and online) to solve problems.&nbsp; Recent graduates reported difficulty in solving problems that required information not readily available online.&nbsp; Graduates also indicated that the skills they developed in college for searching of information were important in their daily work routines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent study by the University of Washington-based research institute, Project Information Literacy, shows that employers want new hires to have basic research skills that allow them to find necessary information. &nbsp;Image courtesy of&nbsp; Encyclop\u00e6dia Britannica Image Quest.&nbsp; http:\/\/quest.eb.com\/images\/154_289142 The <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/2012\/11\/06\/new-report-highlights-employers-need-for-information-literate-staff\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  New report highlights employers&#8217; need for information literate staff<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1227,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1227"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1277,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions\/1277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}