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    Research: More Than Half of Top Female Execs Were College Athletes

    Saw this article on another thread and given the rather cynical view often espoused on this site that pursuing soccer results in a dead end in life thought that it was important to put it out here more visibly for others to read.

    http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/10/researc...lege-athletes/

    #2
    Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
    Saw this article on another thread and given the rather cynical view often espoused on this site that pursuing soccer results in a dead end in life thought that it was important to put it out here more visibly for others to read.

    http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/10/researc...lege-athletes/
    Oh, so maybe playing college soccer at a good school isn't a waste of time?

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      #3
      Only if you attend Wheaton or Wooster. The rest don't matter.

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        #4
        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xnpt0ON-LZM

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          #5
          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Py49QY-_co4

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            #6
            Love when BTDT gets caught promoting two extremes that totally contradict one another, and the contradiction always breaks down into one extreme that involves defending what he has done and applies only to his situation and the other extreme which always translates into disparaging and dismissing everyone else on the planet. For his kid college soccer will lead to all sorts of dreams and multiple high-profile careers while for everyone else playing a sport in college is just a drag on a kid's resources that would be better spent using those silly extracurricular hours in the library studying.

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              #7
              What is this, a joke? When hiring managers look for former college athletes the resumes of the scholarship ones are going to be judged to be at the top of pile simply because they know the scholarship athlete has had to balance more.

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                #8
                Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                Oh, so maybe playing college soccer at a good school isn't a waste of time?
                So 48% didn't. So you could argue that it really doesn't matter if you play college sports.

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                  What is this, a joke? When hiring managers look for former college athletes the resumes of the scholarship ones are going to be judged to be at the top of pile simply because they know the scholarship athlete has had to balance more.
                  Gee, I wonder if this non-scholarship athlete from Wesleyan who just graduated from Duke Law School might luck into an offer or two....

                  http://vimeo.com/6913853

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                    #10
                    Too many things to poke fun of in that post.

                    -Guess the A/B track team missed that kid
                    -Had to go to a D1 school to get anywhere anyways

                    etc

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                      #11
                      Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                      Saw this article on another thread and given the rather cynical view often espoused on this site that pursuing soccer results in a dead end in life thought that it was important to put it out here more visibly for others to read.

                      http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/10/researc...lege-athletes/
                      This isn't surprising - at top schools, there's an old boy alumni network that brings recent members of the team on board at top firms - Wall street firms in particular. Do you realize how many guys in lacrosse, crew and football get easy entrance into investing jobs this way? I suppose women might be starting to do the same, but obviously the tradition doesn't go back 100 years. Athletes are set up in a lot of ways to be execs - they're mostly taking economics or business or government. They are rarely in demanding science, computer and engineering fields that require taking hard courses and spending a lot of time studying.

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                        #12
                        Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                        This isn't surprising - at top schools, there's an old boy alumni network that brings recent members of the team on board at top firms - Wall street firms in particular. Do you realize how many guys in lacrosse, crew and football get easy entrance into investing jobs this way? I suppose women might be starting to do the same, but obviously the tradition doesn't go back 100 years. Athletes are set up in a lot of ways to be execs - they're mostly taking economics or business or government. They are rarely in demanding science, computer and engineering fields that require taking hard courses and spending a lot of time studying.
                        Many businesses that one would describe as either fasted paced or with heavy social interactions typically look for athletes because of their abilities to make decisions and interact with others well. These same groups also tend to hire military leadership as well for the same reasons.

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                          #13
                          Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                          Many businesses that one would describe as either fasted paced or with heavy social interactions typically look for athletes because of their abilities to make decisions and interact with others well.
                          That's a common argument, but more likely it's because the people doing the hiring are jocks (or wannabe jocks) and just like working with jocks. If the people doing the hiring were former drama geeks, they'd be hiring drama geeks instead of jocks.

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                            #14
                            Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                            That's a common argument, but more likely it's because the people doing the hiring are jocks (or wannabe jocks) and just like working with jocks. If the people doing the hiring were former drama geeks, they'd be hiring drama geeks instead of jocks.
                            Except all drama geeks end up doing is posting anonymously on forums like TS :-)

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                              #15
                              But telling us that athletes at elite schools end up as execs isn't telling us where athletes at average schools end up - which is at car dealerships.

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