Optimist with MBA lands the job
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MBA graduates with an overall optimistic outlook spend less time and effort searching for jobs and receive offers more quickly, research shows
Once they get the job, they’re even more likely to be promoted in the first two years than their pessimistic peers.
Researchers surveyed 232 MBA students about their relative dispositional optimism”a general belief that good things tend to happen more often than bad things. Their answers were correlated to their job-search outcomes. The findings have been published in a working paper issued by the National Bureau of Economic Research.
According to the researchers, optimists are more flexible in the way they handle difficult situations.
Beyond a brighter outlook, there are a number of reasons why optimists might outperform others in the job market.
For example, individuals who are articulate and personable may be more optimistic because they have learned to anticipate favorable outcomes when they interact with others. In other words, good things tend to happen to these people, which makes them more optimistic, which in turn perpetuates more good things occurring…
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