Top Careers and Skills
General Post-Graduate Career Success Factors
Employers Tell Us:
- They assume students have the requisite content knowledge if they completed a degree program with a good GPA.
- Cultural fit is a key differentiator - the confident mindset, attitude, behaviors to proactively adapt and succeed - Also known as emotional intelligence.
- Many applicatns come up short regarding "fit"
Other key requirements:
- Internship expereince or similar high impact experiential learning
- Critical thinking - ability to assess challenges, research alternatives, and recommend solutions responsive to organizational needs.
- Communication - written and oral - including ability to "tell their story" in a cogent manner
- Collaboration ability
- Passionate desire to contribute to organizational success, including willingness to take initiative and go beyond minimum requirements
- Appropriate humility - understanding what they don't know, and desire to learn and grow.
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