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by Sean McCormick, Defensive Coordinator at Aiken High School I had a friend was a big baseball player back in high school. He could throw that speedball by you. Make you look like a fool boy. - Bruce Springsteen, 'Glory Days (song).' Looking back on your youth athletic exploits is not always an attempt to relive a bit of your 'glory days.' A study conducted by Cornell University researchers offers valid reasoning behind stating your involvement in competitive sports - especially when such a question is brought up by a prospective employer.

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rdfs:comment	by Sean McCormick, Defensive Coordinator at Aiken High School I had a friend was a big baseball player back in high school. He could throw that speedball by you. Make you look like a fool boy. - Bruce Springsteen, 'Glory Days (song).' Looking back on your youth athletic exploits is not always an attempt to relive a bit of your 'glory days.' A study conducted by Cornell University researchers offers valid reasoning behind stating your involvement in competitive sports - especially when such a question is brought up by a prospective employer.
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abstract	by Sean McCormick, Defensive Coordinator at Aiken High School I had a friend was a big baseball player back in high school. He could throw that speedball by you. Make you look like a fool boy. - Bruce Springsteen, 'Glory Days (song).' Looking back on your youth athletic exploits is not always an attempt to relive a bit of your 'glory days.' A study conducted by Cornell University researchers offers valid reasoning behind stating your involvement in competitive sports - especially when such a question is brought up by a prospective employer. A postdoctoral research associate in the Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Kevin Kniffin, has evidence former student-athletes have gained an edge in the work world. "Participation in competitive youth sports 'spills over' to occupationally advantageous traits that persist across a person's life," said Kniffin in an article appearing in the Cornell Chronicle. Kniffin's research for Sports at Work: Anticipated and Persistent Correlates of Participation in High School Athletics, presented online by the Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies, involved interviews with current and retired workers. Study participants were divided into those involved in either high school basketball or cross country, played trombone or participated in creating the school yearbook. One-third of the interviewees played competitive sports and 43 percent of the study participants were women. The university publication stated Kniffin's research concluded most workers (regardless of a tie to youth athletic participation) believe those competing competitively as youth are better candidates for leadership and management positions. A related second study, gathering information from more than 900 men of retirement age, provided numbers which state former varsity athletes were also very active in volunteerism and charity-related events. There is a reason Human Resources personnel will ask those being interviewed for a job, "Did you play any high school sports?" Be prepared to extol the benefits of playing competitive sports. Whether you were all-conference or averaged less than two minutes of court time per game, research shows it was time well spent.

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