-: The biggest thing you can do while you're in school
is to do fundraisers, to be involved
with groups that do fundraisers.
I wish someone had told me that,
that there is actually benefit
to taking part in those kind of activities.
A lot of fraternities and sororities do that,
but other groups on campus will, too.
And just learning how to ask people for something
that doesn't benefit you, but benefits someone else
is a great skill that you can build while you're in college.
I think that you can't go wrong taking some basic
business classes, that it's really helpful
to have a background where you can draw on
to know accounting, especially, I think is very helpful,
but then HR, to understand basic HR practices,
what the rules are.
And really understanding how to gather a team,
that's really important.
So I know when I was in school, I thought,
"(scoffs) Why are we doing these group projects?
"These can't be really helpful,
"this isn't what the real world's like."
And in reality, it's very much like what the real world
is like and you'll have people you need on your team
who don't value the work you're doing as much as you do
and you need to figure out ways
to bring them along and help them see
how their assistance can bring greater value.
To be honest, I look for a resume
that is thoughtfully put together.
If it looks like every other resume,
it's really easy to just go to the next one.
I've just hired two new full-time staff,
or I guess they're not both full-time,
but I've just hired two new staff
and I was amazed at how thoughtless
a lot of resumes were, so that's one thing.
Part of it is I spent the early part of my career
as a career counselor, so I think about that a lot.
But the other thing that I look for
is the way that a cover letter
connects with the resume, the reason why
they've made the choices for the work that they've done,
the impact that they've wanted to have
and what their goals are for their career
and those two things, I think, have to work as a pair.