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However, what matters the most to employers is really the hands-on experience gained during college. This is the most critical hiring variable of all.

So if you want to develop your minor into something you can really do as a career, go build relevant experience in that second field - join competitions; build your portfolio; gain internship experience or better, do something that requires a combination of both skills.

Jeraldine Phneah | Singapore Lifestyle Blogger: Should you pursue a Minor in college?

3. The school you attend matters much more than your academic record...

They felt students from better schools were smarter and had more foresight
According to this logic, the more prestigious a school, the higher its "bar" for admission, and thus the "smarter" its student body.

In addition to being an indicator of potential intellectual deficits, the decision to go to a lesser known school was often perceived to be evidence of moral failings, such as faulty judgment or a lack of foresight on the part of a student.

4. Extracurriculars matter...

Employers preferred those who take on activities motivated by "personal" rather than "professional" interest. Those who participated in activities that were primarily academically or pre-professionally oriented were perceived to be "boring," "tools," "bookworms," or "nerds" who might turn out to be "corporate drones" if hired.

This is true even when activities were directly related to work within their industry (e.g., investing, consulting, legal clinic clubs) as employers believe that these extracurriculars were believed to serve the instrumental purpose of "looking good" rather than evidence of genuine "passion," "commitment," and "well-roundedness."

Jeraldine Phneah: How do the best firms hire?