THE RIGHT MAN FOR THE JOB

         Some companies consider that their management trainee schemes are useful as a bait to catch able recruits. These schemes do give graduate who is unused to industry a chance to look round before commiting himself to particular job. But such schemes run into difficulty that graduated of any worth quickly get bored going from department to department without doing the job.

University education, say some business men especially if they own firms in declining industries spoils young men, destroy their simple enthusiasm for, say, the product, and makes them too sophisticated to be loyal to the firm.

          Among the traits mentioned as essential for the young man applying for his first job in an industria’empire are: drive; decisiveness; determinations; push; analytical ability; an inquiring mind; ability to get on with colleagues – this last is highly prized by business men – the dependable combinable type”,as Andrew Carnegie put it. Above all they want “good mixer”; and, of course, drive. These are the alpha an omega of desirable traits for entering management, if  not for going into business. There is wide agreement that academic distinction is less  important than personality