5. Employers are looking for people with skills such as decisionmaking, negotiating, oral and written communication, self-awareness, and teamwork, which are cultivated as students work through socioscientific issues with their peers. The University of Mary Washington's Career Services Center's publishes a typical list: What Skills and Abilities do Employers Want? and the Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills report, commissioned by the United States Secretary of Labor in the early 1990's to determine the skills people need to succeed in the workforce, continues to be referenced today as a benchmark for future student success.