As Insurance & Technology’s new report on the Top 11 Schools for Insurance Technology Talent reveals, today’s students graduate from college with impressive training, skills and credentials. But do they have other capabilities – such as common sense, creativity, empathy, a sense of adventure -- that are essential to success in the business technology world? And what can they do to gain these kinds of skills and insights? Here is some of the best advice provided to the college graduates now entering the workforce, based on 2012 commencement addresses and other words of wisdom.
June 22, 2012
1. Understand How the Universe Works
I studied physics and business, because in order to do these things you need to know how the universe works and how the economy works and you also need to be able to bring people together to create something. It's very difficult to create something as individuals if it's a significant technology.
— Elon Musk, co-founder of SpaceX, Tesla Motors and Paypal, in his address to the 2012 graduates of Caltech
Source: Caltech
