Here's a list of the skills that employers seek when hiring Sociology majors. Skills vary by job, so also review these skills lists for a variety of different occupations.
Highlight the skills you acquired during your studies, internships and jobs held during college in your cover letters, resume and job applications.
Sociology Major Skills
A - C
- Active listening
- Administering Surveys and Questionnaires
- Analytical
- Analyzing Social Problems
- Analyzing Work Roles
- Applying Ethical Standards to Research
- Applying Principles of Group Process
- Applying Theories to Real World Situations
- Appreciating Individual Differences
- Assessing Demographic Trends
- Caring
- Coding Data
- Communicating with Diverse Populations
- Comparing and Contrasting Methodological Approaches to Gathering Data
- Conducting Field Observations
- Conducting Interviews
- Constructing Research Models
- Constructing Valid Arguments
- Conveying Sociological Concepts
- Creating Charts and Graphs
- Creativity
- Critical Thinking
D - I
- Detail Orientation
- Developing Public Policy Recommendations Based on Sociological Trends and Data
- Devising Surveys Regarding Social Phenomenon
- Discerning Recurring Patterns
- Displaying Knowledge of the Impact of Social Institutions
- Empathy
- Evaluating the Reliability and Validity of Research Findings
- Explaining Complex Concepts
- Facilitating Focus Group Activities
- Facilitating Group Discussions
- Gathering Information from Multiple Sources
- Identifying in Particular Methodological Approaches to an Issue
- Identifying Patterns of Deviant Behavior
- Identifying Signs of Conflict
- Identifying Underlying Assumptions in Particular Theoretical Orientations or Arguments
- Independence
- Interpersonal
- Interpreting Data
L- P
- Leadership
- Leading Meetings
- Logical Reasoning
- Managing Stress
- Marketing
- Mediating Disagreements
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Word
- Motivating Others
- Note Taking
- Organizational
- Performing Descriptive Statistical Tests Such as Mean, Median and Mode
- Performing Multiple Linear Regression Analyses
- Performing Two Way Correlations
- Persistence
- Persuasive Communication
- Planning Projects
- PowerPoint
- Pragmatism
- Predicting Outcomes
- Presentation
- Prioritizing
- Problem Solving
- Producing Bivariate Tables with Chi-square Tests of Significance
R - Z
- R (a Stat Package)
- Reading Complex Material
- Research
- Resolving Conflicts
- SAS
- Self Awareness
- Social Perceptiveness
- SPSS
- Structuring Focus Groups
- Study
- Summarizing Basic Questions in a Sub-Area of Sociology
- Systematically Observing Social Phenomenon
- Systematizing
- Teamwork
- Testing Hypotheses
- Time Management
- Understanding an Audience
- Understanding Cultural Differences
- Verbal Communication
- Viewing Issues from Diverse Angles
- Writing Research Proposals
- Writing Concisely
- Writing Essays
- Writing Precisely
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