Conscientious and Cooperative Students Earn More After School
Although it is incredibly important for people to be intelligent, willing to work hard, confident, positive and curious, another characteristic important for success once one is graduated and starts working is: people skills.
Science Daily published an article on Friday in which it is explained that students “who had been rated as conscientious and cooperative by their teachers were earning more than classmates who had similar test scores but fewer social skills, said a new University of Illinois study.”
Dave Price of Dean’s World, one of the best reasonably Centrist blogs in the ‘blogosphere,’ responded, and quite correctly so: “This is a very underrated skill that really isn’t taught much, even in business school. Your success in most white-collar jobs depends to a great extent on how others perceive you (fairly or not), so if you want to be successful you should learn to fake an interest in what all those idiots you have to work with are saying without rolling your eyes or otherwise revealing your level of contempt, at least when they can see you.”
Price’s comment is, of course, a tad bit cynical, but true nonetheless. This aspect of being a professional has been underrated greatly both in high school and academia.
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