<p>This study confirms what I had said. Small associations hold more weight.
[Employers</a> Hire Potential Drinking Buddies Ahead Of Top Candidates - Forbes](<a href=“http://www.forbes.com/sites/susanadams/2012/12/03/employers-hire-potential-drinking-buddies-ahead-of-top-candidates/]Employers”>Employers Hire Potential Drinking Buddies Ahead Of Top Candidates)</p>
<p>She quotes a banker who says, “She plays squash. Anyone who plays squash I love,” and ranked the squash-playing applicant first among potential hires. </p>
<p>I can tell you exactly what to have an interest in or what to highlight in order to be hired by certain individuals and firms. Small schools have always took care of their own much better than large schools and privates better than publics. If a school has developed a program for this purpose, it has been my observations that it is more for marketing and is less organic than the schools that don’t need to engineer a program to make it happen. But that it just my observations over the years…</p>