KILKENNY -- While sorting through e-mail over breakfast coffee in Zuni (Patrick Street, Kilkenny), I heard from a student who was disappointed not to be selected for an in-house job. I had seen the shortlist and noted that the best candidates had scored high for intellectual capacity, personal motivation, and ability to get along with other people. Caroline O'Reilly, a business studies programme specialist, further refined her criteria to include constructive thinking, decision-making and analytical skills.
Measuring these skills means looking at a candidate's drive for results, ability to plan work activities, pro-active attitude, flexibility and adapabilty.
I believe it is important to set specific projects during the academic year where people test their potential to lead others. How well a third level student steps up to the mark indicates whether they can run teams or should be set into individual specialty task
Cary Cooper -- Leaders in the 21st Century, Oxford University Press
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