One of the greatest traps when thinking about bolstering a company's capabilities is focusing too myopically on the technology. Sure, great teams require technical wizards, but it turns out that in the eyes of employers hard skills take a back seat to personal qualities such as creativity, drive, and open-mindedness when it comes to employability.

This is the finding of a recent study from digital education company Hyper Island titled "Tomorrow's Most Wanted." In the study, conducted over a three-month period in 2013, Hyper Island surveyed over 500 leaders and employees across companies within the communication, tech, and business development industries, looking at future challenges and the skills and qualities needed to meet them.

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Immersive learning

Vocational education is about people "doing" something in the workplace. Is about employment readiness. I have participated in numerous discussions with RTOs and employers about the chasm in business between people knowing what to do and actually doing it. Although there are many factors that can influence "doing", for the purpose of this article, we'll focus on instances when the issue is related to training and not to other organisational barrier.

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