By The Princeton Review
Employers, graduate schools, colleges, etc. look for many characteristics in their applicants. If you want to be competitive, here is a checklist of attributes that will help you stand out:
- Personal Excellence: Self-assurance about your talents, confidence in your ability to succeed.
- Passion: Zeal, motivation, fire, your driving force.
- Ambition: Willingness to take on tough challenges without certain knowledge of success.
- Empathy: Sensitivity to the feeling of other people, ability to identify with and understand their situation.
- Focus: Clear understanding of goals and direction for the future, identified action plan.
- Self-Effacement: Recognition of personal weaknesses, willingness to accept personal responsibility.
- Social Skills: Ability to play well in the sandbox.
- Intellectual Curiosity: Thirst for knowledge, learning for learning sake.
- Leadership: Ability to guide others, manage groups effectively.
- Likeability: Easily liked.