I have been waiting to find a place to use this little ditty from Jessica Hagy... and I did.
This post on the Employee Evolution blog highlights the fact that all the great stuff that you did before your first job may not be that important - or at least not that impressive. To quote from the post...
"This post is a wake-up call to all current and just-graduated students. And the message is simple: Being good is no longer enough. Your 3.9 GPA, varsity soccer, three-language proficiency, year in South America, work-study in the campus bookstore, volunteering at the homeless shelter, bylines in the school paper, interning every summer since you stopped going to camp are simply not going to haul the water no matter what your parents, your advisor or the career service administrator tells you. From this moment on, it’s all up to you."
And the Jessica Hagy ditty that connects to this post...It's entitled...

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