"Ability to Pull an All-Nighter Can Be as Useful as a B.A.".....?

After reading through the list of articles that we were to choose from and respond to, it seemed that the first title was the one that I really was curious about. This article is titled "Ability to Pull an All-Nighter Can Be Useful as a B.A." Being a college student myself I have pulled an all-nighter on one occasion and that was enough to make me realize that is not a skill I think I could acquire. The article mainly tells the reader that there are many skills that one might acquire in college that one might not consider marketable; however, there are ways to spin things that make them sound like they are real assets. The article calls these skills "soft skills". The example that the author provides is that students have the ability to write a paper, talk online, and watch TV all at the same time. While this may be a product of a weeks worth of procrastination, it could also be thought of as an extreme form of intense schedule handling.
The article suggests using some of these "soft skills" in an interview. Things like facebook and myspace, if worded right, could be used to show that you are Internet savvy and are able to communicate in the most modern of ways. According to the article, all these examples, if used correctly could help you in attaining a job. However, you would not want to crowd your interview or resume with these soft skills- other, more traditional resume builders are still very important, but these other abilities might be of interest to some employers.
I thought this was a interesting and pertinent article considering our mock interviews and resumes are coming up. These examples cited in this article were not skills that I had considered marketable before, but I will now re-evaluate what might be worth mentioning in these up-coming assignments.