Unique Programs: Applicant Qualifications
Below we have provided guidelines for general applicant qualifications for our 2009 programs. In addition to this information, please visit the specifc program page that you are interested in to learn more about the suggested applicant qualifications for that program. For all program participants a history of achievement is important. As well, given the nature of the program, an applicant’s personal qualities play a large role in determining whether or not he/she is accepted. Participants will be living and working in challenging environments and as such the “intangibles” are fundamental to participant success.
Participants in all Social Entrepreneur Corps programs should:
- Recognize that they are going to have a profound impact but are not going to “change the world in a day”
- Possess a positive outlook on the prospects for assisting local people to solve local problems
- Be hard-working, open-minded, open-hearted, collaborative and teamwork-oriented individuals
- Be individuals who take initiative and are resourceful self-starters
- Take their work and responsibilities very seriously but not take themselves too seriously
- Be very desirous of learning about development, relief and social entrepreneurship
- Be willing and able to live for a time in a challenging developing country environment
- Be willing and desirous of “getting your hands dirty”
Participants in Social Entrepreneur Corps programs NEED NOT:
- Have international living experience
- Have Spanish language experience (language classes are a part of the program and one’s success is not necessarily correlated to Spanish speaking skills before entering)
- Have business or development experience
Click here to learn more about the application process for the program that you are interested in...
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