Advice to Students
Eric Plow advises current NC State students to concentrate on earning good grades, which he believes will assist them in securing their first job.
Interview on 2012-04-19 00:00:00 -0400
Transcript
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I would say that the more you can concentrate on academics the better
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because I saw a lot of guys just goofing off and carrying on
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hat first job-. I asked my boss who hired me at the dental school,
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I asked him after I'd known him for a couple years, I said, "How many people applied for my job?"
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and he said actually quite a few,
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and he said, "Actually some people's credentials were a little bit better than yours."
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They had a little more experience in the field and so forth. He said, "But the thing that got me about you was your good grades
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and that's why I hired you, because you had good grades."
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Good grades aren't everything but they get you that first job,
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and then of course how you do in that first job depends on where you go from there,
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but good grades are just really important.
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