1) The document discusses finding the right candidate for management trainee schemes and first jobs in industry.
2) Some companies use management trainee schemes to recruit top graduates, but these schemes often bore graduates who want real work rather than just rotating departments.
3) Employers seek candidates with traits like drive, decisiveness, determination, analytical ability, an inquiring mind, and ability to work well with others. Academic distinction is less important than personality.
1) The document discusses finding the right candidate for management trainee schemes and first jobs in industry.
2) Some companies use management trainee schemes to recruit top graduates, but these schemes often bore graduates who want real work rather than just rotating departments.
3) Employers seek candidates with traits like drive, decisiveness, determination, analytical ability, an inquiring mind, and ability to work well with others. Academic distinction is less important than personality.
1) The document discusses finding the right candidate for management trainee schemes and first jobs in industry.
2) Some companies use management trainee schemes to recruit top graduates, but these schemes often bore graduates who want real work rather than just rotating departments.
3) Employers seek candidates with traits like drive, decisiveness, determination, analytical ability, an inquiring mind, and ability to work well with others. Academic distinction is less important than personality.
1) The document discusses finding the right candidate for management trainee schemes and first jobs in industry.
2) Some companies use management trainee schemes to recruit top graduates, but these schemes often bore graduates who want real work rather than just rotating departments.
3) Employers seek candidates with traits like drive, decisiveness, determination, analytical ability, an inquiring mind, and ability to work well with others. Academic distinction is less important than personality.
Some companies consider that their management trainee schemes are useful as a bait to catch able recruits. These schemes do give the graduate who is unused to industry a chance to look around before committing himself to a particular job. But such schemes have run into difficulty that graduates of any worth quickly get bored going from department to department without job to do. University education, say some business men-especially if they own firms in declining industries-spoils young men, destroys their simple enthusiasm for, say, the product, and makes them too sophisticated to be loyal to the firm. Among the traits mentioned as essential for the young man applying for the first job in an industrial empire are: drive, decisiveness; determination; push; analytical ability; an inquiring mind; ability to get on with colleagues- this last is highly prized by business men- the “dependable, combinable type”, as Andrew Carnegie put it. Above all they want “ good mixers ” ; and, of course, drive. These are alpha and omega of desirable traits for entering management, if not for going into business. There is wide agreement that academic distinction is less important than personality.