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