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Debunking the Myth: Are College Athletes More Prepared for the Workforce?

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Debunking the Myth: Are College Athletes More Prepared for the Workforce?/
Author:	Rumley, Kristen.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2018,
Description:	110 p.
Notes:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 57-06.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International57-06(E).
Subject:	Educational evaluation. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10810879
ISBN:	9780355991475

Debunking the Myth: Are College Athletes More Prepared for the Workforce?
Rumley, Kristen.

Debunking the Myth: Are College Athletes More Prepared for the Workforce? - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2018 - 110 p.

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 57-06.

Thesis (M.A.L.S.)--Dartmouth College, 2018.

We live in a world where jobs and careers drive our everyday lives. However, knowing what path leads individuals to have the most successful career is very uncertain. At the end of a student's college experience, when students are applying for jobs, there is major controversy over who is most prepared for their career---athletes or non-athletes. A myth has raged on over the years that athletes experience character development due to their involvement in intercollegiate sports, because sports promote positive educational values on athletes, thus enhancing their preparation for the workforce. In short, this means that athletes are more prepared to work than non-athletes after college, simply because of the lessons they learned as an athlete. However, no one has ever researched to see whether this myth still stands, or whether it has merely misled many athletes. In order to solve the mystery behind this question, I went out and interviewed nineteen successful individuals, each with a very different, but very extensive background in hiring entry-level candidates right out of college. The objective was to determine what experiences in a student's life prepared them the most for the workforce. By talking to those who hire students and who interact with them as employees every day, they would be the most knowledgeable about what was the best driver for success. From colleges, to GPAs, to majors, to extracurricular activities, the list went on for what helped a student to be most successful in their career. Ultimately though, I found that although student-athletes do get a valuable educational experience from their sport, non-athletes can also get a very similar educational and character-building experience in other extracurricular activities. At the end of the day, what matters most is how much work experience a student has in their field, and how much dedication and time a student spent building themselves outside of the classroom. It doesn't matter what the activity is, as long as the student had an experience that was challenging enough to push a student to build their inner self, they would be prepared and qualified.

ISBN: 9780355991475Subjects--Topical Terms:

526425
Educational evaluation.

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