Advice For College Students Facing Job Market

I was asked by a college magazine on some advice to give to college students, particularly seniors who will be facing the job market. Since I speak at colleges, one of the things that I tell students all the time is that they should work to develop their people skills, ie., their ability to interact well with lots of different types of people. People skills will be more important than their grades when determining how successful they will be in their future careers. Also, because we live in a more diverse society now, it is important for students to be able to work with people from all different backgrounds and cultures. This is what I do in my college diversity presentations. People and diversity skills, whether acquired through part time work, volunteer work or even extra-curricular activities with people other than their friends, will separate these forward thinking students from their competition in the job market. Of course, this will work equally well for those who have already graduate too.

Campus Diversity Training Program Feedback

More feedback from college students have been added about my campus diversity training program. These are text testimonials by college students from two different countries, the US and Canada. See the mix of students and what they said about my sessions at campus diversity training program feedback. I hope to present this diversity talk to Toastmasters audiences soon.

Diversity On College Campuses Is Important

Looks like that diversity on college campuses is an important issue as here is yet another college student talking about the diversity program presented by Clint Cora. There is a good mix of college students from both US and Canadian campuses caught on video talking about diversity. This certainly shows the interest of diversity on campus.

American College Students Agree With Canadians

Well, it seems that American college students agree with Canadian students when it comes to what they thought and learned at the college diversity program by diversity speaker Clint Cora.  You can see many video clips of students from both the US and Canada talking about diversity at the college students video webpage.  Student leaders from both countries are mixed throughout the page.

Great New Video Clips Of College Students Talking Diversity

Just came back with a whole bunch of new video clips of college students talking about diversity on campus.  Their 'performances' were quite good with just single takes.  They were surprisingly well spoken as these were much like Toastmasters table topics.

College Students Have Made Me A Better Speaker

After doing five separate talks to US college students during the last two weeks, I've actually become a better speaker because of this audience.  College students, by their own admission, tend to have shorter attention spans.  My diversity talk already has a lot of audience participation while me motivational talk has less as it was designed more like a traditional keynote for general adults.

The diversity talk was a huge hit among the students while the motivational talk, which is my signature presentation, didn't fair as well.  I could see that I was losing the attention of some of the students during my motivational talk which was initially a bit of a shock to me given that this talk had done so well in the past.

Changing the motivational talk to be slightly more interactive improved the attention rates when I got to present it a second time around.  There's still more work to be done on this talk while the diversity one is already a success for this type of younger audience.

So if the motivational talk could be adjusted so that it is almost as interactive as my diversity talk, I will be able to hold the students' attention.  And if I could hold college students' attention, an older adult audience will be really easy.  This will make me a better speaker overall.