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Employers emphasize the importance of continuing current and creating future internship and extracurricular leadership opportunities. Many internship positions can become full-time positions.
"Interviewer: The people that you are promoting that do have those skills, have you found out where they found those skills? Was it with Cub Scouts or Girl Scouts? Or was there something that we can start developing at a younger age? Employer: A lot of times, it might have been involvement in sports. It might have been Boy Scouts, it might have been Girl Scouts. Interviewer: So, these are probably mental skills at a younger age that... Employer: It could be, in some cases. Well, on campuses, if you have somebody that was the head of the Investment Club, they probably know how to lead. Those types of folks. Folks that have led, that have interacted with people. I think more of those types of opportunities for people to lead, I think, as adults would be helpful because then they can apply that when they get into the work." |
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"Interviewer: I think the other question, though, would be: would you like to see a course—part of the core curriculum—be leadership skills? I don't know if you can teach that. Employer 1: You just have to do that." |
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