-: I think an X factor to me is leadership.
Leadership, leadership, leadership.
I'm talking about the leadership that you gain
only from getting involved.
I would rather take someone that's involved
that knows how to run a meeting,
knows how to talk to people,
knows how to get out of their comfort zone,
someone who's been through some stuff
versus a person that never really
put themselves out there,
doesn't really know how to act in situations
that might not be favorable,
because you really can't control everything.
Every day is different, so you need to be flexible,
you need to be agile.
I think just being smart,
it doesn't cut it.
There's a lot of smart people in the office.
Everybody's smart.
You had to be smart to get here.
But can I trust and have faith in you
to convey a message without me being in the room?
Can I have faith in you to go and seal a deal?
Can I have faith in you that you won't make us look bad
talking to a potential business client?
Those are the things that I would say I look for;
someone who isn't afraid to be great.
For me personally, I have just a bachelor's degree.
I started off in engineering
and then I moved to the College of Business.
I don't think a master's degree is necessary.
It also depends on what you wanna do.
There's always opportunities to segue,
to go to different fields
depending on what you might be interested in,
especially at Owens Corning.
If you are really interested in sales
and you've been working in the IT space,
and you've been able to pick up
on a lot of sales-related things
and there's an open position,
no one's gonna sit there and say, hey,
no, you can't do that.
Matter of fact, that position might have been
for you the whole time.
That's where I would sit back and say
it's really not so much about the classwork you take,
but I think it's more about the human element.
Do you know how to talk to people?
Do you know how to tell when you might be
rubbing people the wrong way?
It's really that human and that social factor
that I would sit there and tell people to do.
Take a diversity inclusion class.
Know how to talk to people that don't look like you.
Know how to be able to read on some of those things
because we're definitely marching towards
a more diverse work force, a more diverse office.
Being able to navigate those channels,
that's just as good as being able how to do chemistry,
how to do math, and everything else.