As stated in Dr. Simon’s lecture, leadership is 30% academic and intelligence based and 70% interpersonal skills based. While I do not have experience in industry, I spent this entire past fall interviewing with medical device and pharmaceutical companies. I was pre-medicine all the way up until the end of my junior year when I realized my passion was actually in biomedical engineering. While I had experience in research labs and extra-curricular activities, I had no internship experience because as a pre-medicine this was not something that was beneficial to my end-goal at the time. I thought I was not going to get any interviews because of my lack of internship experience but I did and even got some full-time offers by placing a large emphasis on my interpersonal skills. This was not hard considering most of the questions were interpersonal skills based and they constantly placed me in situations where I had to socialize with other managers, employees, and interviewees, and I also had to do some presentations. I wanted to share this because I think it is a good example of how much companies value someone that can work well with a team, get along with others easily, and communicate effectively.