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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]University professor here. It's not what most professors want. The last thing we need is arrogant little pricks coming in thinking they are revolutionizing the world with an IQ of 120. This is just one example of very many, but I had set up a booth to recruit students for a study several years back. It was going just fine until a 20 year old came up to me and insisted he was a "direct marketing expert" who was "transforming businesses." He would not leave my booth and I lost a number of potential recruits in the thirty (!!) minutes he lectured me on what I was doing wrong with my advertisement and recruiting script. I came to learn he had taken TWO CLASSES in marketing to gain his "expertise." Like dude, you're a sophomore, not a business transformation expert. Leadership is a buzzword invented by administrators so that they can ignore SAT scores in favor of subjective and ever changing definitions of "personality" to broaden their admissions pool. The reality is that we get a lot of students who have been falsely indoctrinated by their parents, high schools, and others that they are leadership material, even though when they graduate they will probably be performing some menial task. It's not proven but I believe the inflation of young people's expectations that they will all be some kind of leader or world changer is contributing to depression in the late 20s/early 30s workforce[/quote]

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Yep.  Early in my career I had to supervise an entry-level employee who'd graduated from an Ivy league school.  She straight up told me she didn't think she should have to do certain menial tasks that all assistants did because she went to "X" school.  :roll:   I wonder what happened to her. She left to go to some sketchy start-up purely because the leadership was from her college. I guess she thought they wouldn't expect someone with <1 year experience to do menial tasks.  Good luck with that. If she'd been willing to stick it out and do the assistant work at our company (which is now one of the top consulting firms in my field) she'd have learned a ton and had a good foundation for a career in our industry.

I hire for entry level positions now at a different company and always look extra closely at attitude/work ethic from Ivy+ grads to weed out that mindset.  Especially love to see a basic retail/food service job on their resume.[/quote]

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