Social skills and turning up to work on time are more important than your academic prowess, if a new study is to be believed. Experts looked at more than 21 million UK job adverts and found that less than one in five gave specific qualifications as a requirement for getting the position. Employers were more likely to give details of social qualifications, specific skills and cognitive abilities including organisational skills and time management. While the average student loan debt sits at nearly £35,000 ($28,000), the study revealed formal academic credentials play a relatively minor role in the job market. Social skills and turning up to work on time are more important than your academic prowess, if a new study is to be believed.

We've all been told that anxiety can ruin performance. But according to a new study, small doses of it at work can make you better at your job by keeping you focused and motivated. A total lack of anxiety in the workplace, while perhaps rare, may even lead to an unmotivated workforce, researchers claim. Workers who overcome their anxiety and channel it into their jobs may make more effective employees, research suggests. The discovery was made by researchers are the University of Toronto Scarborough (UTS), who looked at the results of previous research on anxiety.