Getting into development

Leadership – not at first sight an attribute that tops recruiter’s wish lists in development and more usually associated with graduate training schemes in finance or fast moving consumer goods for example.  Lots of people in the sector have taken leadership on. Not necessarily in a technical ‘project management’  sense but  in the way they have taken a personal stand to change the way things work.  A lot of applications whether to graduate schemes or development are weak not because people don’t have the right qualifications or work experience but because they don’t demonstrate a nuanced understanding of what they mean by specific skills. One of the most popular posts on this blog is a piece on team working http://thecareersgroupgid.wordpress.com/2008/04/29/what-are-analytical-skills/ but I have recently come across an interesting piece on leadership http://www.thecoaches.com/resources/multimedia/why-lead.html