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22 Qualities that business schools look for

Business week has an excellent article listing 22 qualities that the business schools look for in a potential candidate. The qualities are:

1. Intellectual ability: A candidate who is smart and easily able to handle the demands of the schoolwork and, ultimately, the business world.
   
2. Quantitative orientation: A candidate who can "do" numbers.
   
3. Analytical mindset: A candidate who is able to think critically and tolerate complex, open-ended problems.
   
4. Success record: A candidate with a proven run of success.
   
5. Maturity and professionalism: A candidate who looks, talks and acts like a grown-up.
   
6. Leadership: A candidate who has created value by being at the helm in group-based activities and is comfortable in this role.
   
7. Ambition and motivation: A candidate who is aiming for big things and planning to play in the senior leagues.
   
8. Career potential: A candidate who has what it takes to go to the top.
   
9. Perseverance and mental toughness: A candidate with evidence of the gritty staying power and self-reliance needed to overcome adversity.
   
10. A strong, extrovert personality: A candidate who likes people and who is professionally (if not naturally) gregarious.
    
11. Active orientation: A candidate with a bias to action and getting things done
    
12. The killer instinct: A candidate who is not afraid of winning and seeing others lose.
    
13. Personal integrity: A candidate with good interpersonal values and morals
    
14. Community orientation: A candidate who demonstrates responsibility to community, society, and the environment, and who has an integrated, sustainable view of the role of companies in the world.
    
15. Team player: A candidate who works well with others and who operates smoothly and constructively in collaborative situations.
    
16. Diversity contribution: A candidate who brings interesting attributes, experiences, and depth of background to the group.
    
17. Intercultural experience and tolerance: A candidate who has demonstrated a tolerance for diversity in people and cultures.
    
18. Creativity and innovation: A candidate who is comfortable with change and ready to use it creatively.
    
19. Communication ability: A candidate who can write, speak and organize ideas well.
    
20. All-rounder: A candidate who is more than a suit, and who has an array of interests and passions in other things.
    
21. Recruitability
    
22. Likeability: A candidate who people enjoy having around. All else being equal, people always choose people they like as colleagues and co-workers