Three industry leaders share the top comms competencies they look for when hiring, and offer tips for cultivating these skills for practical, long-term success.

Sharpen your verbal communication skills and your leadership presence will increase.

Rapid growth is outpacing the current availability of sustainable skill sets in the job market: shockingly, just 17% of businesses that set sustainability targets are tracking to meet them.

If you're studying PR, or you're working in the industry, the recent study from USC Annenberg should be by your bedside. The report covers the disruption of the PR industry, what's changing, what talent is needed in the new model of PR, and where the industry is headed.

It's that time of year when predictions and suggestions are made for the new year.  Forbes made a list of the digital skills they see as the most important and TEKsystems polled 250 CMOs to find out what skills they're looking for in 2018. Distilling all this data down into one list, here are my picks: