-: I would say the number one thing is
sense of humor, personality.
Are you able to- flexibility.
And then you have to have the organizational skills.
You have to have the attention to detail.
That is not my greatest strength,
but I'm at least a hard worker
and so I can focus on that and know I've gotta
create checklists or I've got to maintain
this part of the database.
I've got to make sure that I'm making notes.
But I mean, the number one thing is
can you talk to people?
Can you pull people out of their shell a little bit?
Can you connect?
If they have an independent school on their resume,
then they know some piece of that culture.
That's not to say that that's exclusive of that.
If they've worked in an independent school.
There is some piece of coming into this
where you have to know the clientele,
the families that are sending their kids to these schools,
and either experiencing that as a student,
or experiencing that as a teacher,
I would say is probably the single greatest thing.
I would say any kind of ambassadorial work,
campus ambassador, giving tours,
that was one of the things that I think
helped me out was that I was a city tour guide
in Richmond, Virginia leading bike tours all around.
And so I was meeting people from all over,
well, actually, all over the world, believe it or not,
were coming to Richmond, Virginia
to see the restaurants, and to see the history,
and some of the statues and monuments and all of that.
And so if you have that ambassadorial piece,
that city ambassador, college ambassador,
University ambassador, that's a great way to say,
I'm interested in meeting people,
I'm interested in showing people why this is a great place.