In search of the most specific and complete professional profile
The labor market demands more and more professionals with very defined and differentiated profiles: professionals who have been trained in different areas of knowledge and who prop up their practical knowledge on a solid theoretical and humanistic basis. They need prepared people with a well-furnished head.
We have analyzed the reasons for these demands with several specialists of the Francisco de Vitoria University, which explain the rationale of such specific titles as Business Analytics combined with different degrees such as Philosophy, Politics and Economics.
A person who studies Business or Law, should only know Business or Law? Should not I also be prepared to be able to understand and analyze the enormous volume of data that new technologies generate? And a student who is interested in Politics, do not need to be even better trained in Economics? And would not it contribute more to him to have a complete baggage of Philosophy that would allow him to analyze in a deeper way the reality? What if all of them, including those studying Engineering, in addition to learning with cutting edge technology, learn anthropology to understand the world in which they will work?
A global and specific perspective in the university
This is the firm commitment of the future of the university. A commitment to a training that combines the breadth of views that education always wanted to give the scholar, from classical Greece, with the specificity that the market demands at the same time. Because in an increasingly complex world, the technique is necessary, but insufficient. "We have to train people capable of understanding and making strict diagnoses", explains Professor Ignacio Pou, responsible for the degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, as well as in the Humanities area, at the Francisco de Vitoria University.
New academic degrees
The new academic degrees have to offer students that really enriching training that allows them to face the problems from a global perspective, much wider. That's why more and more people demand more. For example, the fact of combining knowledge in Political Science with that of Philosophy, is proving successful in the Anglo-Saxon model, in which they have been inspired by Francisco de Vitoria to plan this degree, a pioneer in Spain.
The same thing happens with the different combinations in which the Business Analytics degree is offered. Marta Fitera, responsible for these studies that can also be studied with Business, Law or Computer, explains that the market is demanding "new profiles of very specific people to fill new and necessary jobs." They look for professionals capable of doing what is now known as 'data mining', which goes beyond mere compilation to the real analysis that allows us to draw truly conclusive conclusions.
The objective of the new university degrees or careers, explain these experts, is to maintain a perfect balance between good technical training - that is why, for example, the facilities and materials available for studies in the area have been taken care of to the extreme. of Engineering- with a solvent and ample humanistic formation that sustains, in the form of good foundations, the complete structure of the preparation of our children.
Well prepared and better 'furnished'
We can not avoid the push of new technologies. When our children choose their university career, they have to know that the demands of the market are clear in this sense, that it is increasingly required the presence of specialists in technological areas, engineers who have been able to handle the most important equipment in their years of study. pointers, economists or lawyers with extensive training in the digital field.
But it is also true that, with increasing intensity, companies request profiles of humanists, or mixed profiles in which humanism is very present. The reason is simple. We are moved by Professor Ignacio Pou Díaz de San Pedro, responsible for studies in Humanities and in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, at the Francisco de Vitoria University: "the humanities permeate all degrees as a form of insertion into reality".
This understanding of reality is what will give students a much broader perspective of the problems they face tomorrow when they take up a job. "They allow them to face the great problems of Humanity," explains Pou. And, although it may seem a very theoretical training, the truth is that "the ability to understand problems is fundamental."
In fact, from their experience in the Francisco de Vitoria, these analysis skills, which are provided to future professionals, then have their application in very diverse areas."Humanists request from areas as diverse as journalism, digital content or video games."
In fact, the enormous demand of humanists in many areas of knowledge, encouraged this institution to establish a specific degree in Humanities that contradicts the idea that this degree has no outputs. On the contrary, in the midst of so much technique, companies request people capable of providing analysis from approaches from anthropology, history, philosophy, theology, art or literature. Understanding humanity is the way to understand how society works.
Victoria Molina
