What "real-life" skills are important after graduating from college?
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Learning how to work under pressure and tough deadlines.  This comes in handy when your director asks you to produce a complicated report for a meeting that starts in five minutes.\n\nLearning how to prioritize.  Which task should I do first?  The one my director said was due this morning or the one the president of the company wanted right away?\n\nLearning to work as part of a team.  "I want to kick this m*therf**king b*tch upside the head" (I scream in my head), but outwardly I smile and say, Yes of course you're absolutely right, I'll see that it gets done right away.\n\nLearning to produce magnificent miracles with a minuscule budget.  The constant phrase each year is, "It's cut-back time"\n\nLearning to dress and maintain a professional demeanour.  Even though you want to have a drag out, kick fest fight with that b*tch in accounting, you smile and say "Good morning and how are you today" in your chirpiest voice.
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Those skills will get you a career almost anywhere.  Every business needs someone who can fix and run their computers.  Do you want to work in profit, non-profit, education, law enforcement...?  You can basically pick any business and focus on it because they will need someone like you.  Good luck!
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Imagine that you have graduated college and you need to get a job RIGHT NOW.  The pressure is on....so you have to decide, you should  look in the paper or yahoo hot-jobs under different sections and see if anything looks appealing.  The first thing you need to do is eliminate something.  There are a few basic categories of careers: Finance, business, medicine, psychology.  Many people go with psych cause it's easy and interesting to study in college (but remember  picture yourself out of college) but once you get out unless you get your PhD or become a therapist ect, there's not much you can do with that.  So then take medicine, can you see yourself as a doctor or a nurse?   Or can you see more possibilities and expansion in business or finance.  If you want to work for a company maybe you should go with business cause in business there are so many different branches that you can explore.  I hope this helps but ultimately you need to eliminate things before just choosing something.   Just get a bachelors in something broad enough to be appealing for many different companies or whatever broad field you find desirable
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enhance your skills with continous with training / education about your career choice
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Focus on what you will be doing after you finish college.  I know it not fun at times.  Remember to focus and finish.  It is better than changing your major.  It just waste a lot of time.  Most college grads will not even work in the field of their major, so don't worry about it.\n\nSee yourself working in a job that will give you opportunity to go on vacation and enjoying life.  Don't focus too much on the boring aspects of the classes.\n\nIn my boring classes, I always found it easier if their was a good looking smart girl that I focused my attention on.  I didn't want her to think I was dumb, so I would study with her.  It worked.  Find some guy that is cute and smart and the class will be more fun and go by faster.
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None at all. You need something to fall back on. If you're inspiring a career; you need to go to college and then follow the road of your dreams.
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right out of high school
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It depends on whether or not you want to go to college.  I wouldn't get to overwhelmed with what "career" you will have after graduation because most people go through about 7+ in a lifetime!\n\nIf you don't expect to go to college then I would start thinking Junior or Senior year as to what technical job you are interested in.  Do you like work with tools?  people? ideas? \n\nIf you do plan on going to college I would focus on what area of education you are interested in rather than what "career" as again that can change.  So just do something that interests you or you'd like to learn more about and you will do well!\n\nStill it's best to narrow these ideas down by at least Senior year.  Visit a high school counselor and he/she will be more than happy to work with you and help you take career development tests etc.
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Get experience with a real job in your field. It will make you far more employable when you do graduate.
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Your responsibilities will change continuously throughout your career.  You have the ability, depending on your management skills, to always assume more responsibility.\nThe business management field covers such a wide spectrum of real world occupations, that personal and professional growth is solely dependent on you.\nPick a specific field that interests you, get some experience, and your opportunities will grow.  Concentrate on communication skills and interpersonal relationships.
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Do you mean technical communications or the other type?  Whichever, don't be afraid to start and the very bottom.  The majority of recent college grads are not making big bucks yet.  Get a job in the mail room at NBC or your local radio station or at some techie type place is better than Pizza Hut.  Keep the resumes flowing.  Good luck!
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Well, taking into account that resumes (and cover letters) for graduates (and not only) are the most important part of the job search, one should pay very much attention to what they comprise. \nAs a college student, you have to target your resume to your employer (meaning highlighting the experience a specific job requires). Then your resume must be goal oriented (for the same purpose....for the employer to see you are oriented towards a career). \nThen how does a resume look "impressive"? By adding everything into it: work experience, education, SUMMER JOBS (don't forget about them....during college they are very important as they show you are not wasting your time in vacations), intership etc. \nDon't forget to proofread your resume and to add some contact information.
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depends\nwhat skills you need to develope?  office skills then join institute and hands on experience.\n\ndancing skill, love making skill, playing soccer skill, internet?\n\nPR skills \nPR skills vs. personal skills:\nWhat matters most to the boss? \n\nBy Catherine B. Ahles, APR, Fellow PRSA\n\nHave you ever wondered what it takes to impress that first employer? Stand out in your company and get ahead in your career? Or dazzle that especially tough boss, client or CEO?\n\nIf you think superior PR skills are the only requirement, think again. There are many skills beyond writing great copy, managing the media and planning a successful event that could mean the difference between survival and success on the job.\n\nAccording to a nationwide survey and interviews with senior PR practitioners around the country, success on the job also depends on well-developed human relations skills, sound work habits and several additional traits collectively known as "employability skills."\n\nThe survey, distributed to members of PRSA's Miami Chapter and PRSA's College of Fellows, assessed about 40 different proficiencies representing three skill sets: professional skills, work habits and human relations skills.\n\nThe interviews answered several questions, including: What distinguishes a good employee from a great one? What do employers look for when they hire people at entry, midcareer and senior levels? In the long term, what qualities count most? \n\nEmployability skills count\nEmployers have several expectations for recent college graduates. They expect them to have excellent oral and written communications skills, sound mathematical skills and a basic understanding of the science affecting the world around us - what academics call core academic skill areas. Graduates without proficiency in these areas will have difficulty finding a good job.\n\nIn addition, entry into the job market is contingent on having a set of professional skills. A degree in public relations, communications, journalism or advertising from an accredited program is one indication to a PR employer that a candidate has been exposed to the basic knowledge needed to do the job. Internships and an exceptionally well-done portfolio are other proofs of competency.\n\nBut there's a fifth set of skills - called employability skills - that are just as important for the recent college graduate, and they become more important as a person progresses in the PR field. \n\nThe need for employability skills cuts across all types of jobs at all levels in an organization. They are as crucial to the midcareer and senior practitioner as they are to the new professional. Depending on whom you ask, different skills rank at the top of the list - but the same half- dozen are always mentioned.\n\n"Employers seem to have no quarrel with the job skills of today's graduates, with the possible exception of their writing skills," says Rosanna M. Fiske, APR, president of Communique Group and a member of PRSA's board of directors. "A bigger issue is their nontechnical abilities."\n\nWhich nontechnical abilities are most critical? Among recruiters across the country participating in a recent survey, 90 percent rate communication and interpersonal skills as essential, while 87 percent rate ability to work in teams and 86 percent rate analytical and problem-solving skills as essential. Those nontechnical abilities also include personal reliability skills, such as personal management, maturity and ethics; adaptability skills, such as problem solving and career-development ability; and group and organizational effectiveness skills, such as interpersonal skills, organizational skills, negotiation skills, creativity and leadership.\n\nThe survey\nDuring the summer and early fall of 2003, a survey of PRSA's Miami Chapter, followed by a similar survey of the College of Fellows, determined which characteristics professionals believe are most essential to
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it depends on you.  you should be able to know where do your interests lie, for example, you're good in writing and yet not so good in math, then take up creative writing or any related fields.  and also do not forget that what you take up in college must yield you a profitable job after your graduation.\n\nreally then, there is no way in determining what is the best course in college, it is all up to you.
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be good at basics\n\nbe innovative yet real\n\nconnect with the people\n\ngood communication skills ( even writing skills)\n\npositive attitude and pleasent persona\n\nability to cope with any situation with smile
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well, i graduated two years ago, and my biggest fear was what was going to happen once i was out.    \n\nhaving to get a real job, go to school, get the money to do so, and eventually move out.\n\nin high school, everything is given to you, once your out, if you dont do it, it wont get done.
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graduate that is your best bet