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To: Dale Baker who wrote (102032)	1/26/2009 7:31:23 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542946

The intel community naturally loves very straitlaced kids; . . . The story was that the FBI under Hoover always hired males from Catholic backgrounds--follow the rules types; and the CIA hired males from Ivy League backgrounds--creative types. Another explanation--backgrounds of the founders.

To: Dale Baker who wrote (102032)	1/26/2009 9:04:10 PM
From: Katelew	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542946

What's desirable is that people can find well-paid jobs and have some choices in the hunt for them. A BYU graduate, and especially if he served a foreign mission, will usually have multiple job openings available to him unless his people skills are just dismal. It's a numbers game. A recruiter doesn't want to make a bad hire, obviously, so he acts to hopefully limit his future losses. With a BYU grad, he's looking at someone who the odds are will not need a leave of absence to go to a treatment center, will not be moping around because of a divorce, will not require counseling for himself, his wife, or his kids, and will not embezzle his firm. With these character traits, such a hire is more likely to be free then to work energetically, be self-motivated, and perform the duties of the job. So all other things being equal, a typical BYU grad just has a leg up on the competition. Not in all fields, of course. The government is a big recruiter and so is the financial services industries, esp. banking, and retailing is huge...store managers particularly. Also hospitality....hotel management. Anyway my point is simply that religous schooling can open a lot of doors for the kids coming out. The assumption is that they will outperform.