The Daily Stat: For Sales Jobs, Your Résumé Should Tout Your Math Skills

Are you having trouble viewing this email? If so, click here to see it in a web browser. HOME   |   BLOGS   |   THE MAGAZINE   |   BOOKS   |   AUTHORS   |   STORE RSS   |   Mobile JANUARY 10, 2013 For Sales Jobs, Your Résumé Should Tout Your Math Skills Even though there's no particular reason why selling would require math skills, employers with sales openings express much greater interest in résumés that show course work or club activities suggesting that candidates have ability in mathematics, say Cory Koedel and Eric Tyhurst of the University of Missouri. The effect, which applies only to résumés displaying relatively high levels of education, is as powerful as the impact of listing an additional 1 to 6 years of work experience on your CV. The researchers sent out fictitious résumés for males in the St. Louis and Kansas City areas. Source: Math skills and labor-market outcomes: Evidence from a resume-based field experiment Share Today's Stat: FEATURED PRODUCT Leading and Motivating Harvard ManageMentor Online Module A synopsis of the essential tasks of leadership: setting direction, aligning people, and motivating others. Learn how to recognize the skills and characteristics of effective leaders, create an inspiring vision, and energize people to support and work toward your goals. One-year single user license. ADVERTISEMENT Follow the Stat: BEST SELLERS HBR's 10 Must Reads: The Essentials HBR's 10 Must Reads Boxed Set HBR Guide to Persuasive Presentations HBR Guide to Better Business Writing HBR Guide to Getting the Right Work Done PREVIOUS STATS Salaries Rise After CEO's Wife Has First-Born Daughter Being Sleepy Makes You More Inclined to Surf the Web at Work Middle Schoolers Do Better If They Start School Later iPhone Thefts Skew Crime Stats in New York A Big Benefit of Taking the Bus: You Have to Walk to the Bus Stop Fatal Heart Attacks Decline When Workplaces Go Smoke-Free Presence of U.S. Troops Boosts Countries' Growth Parisians Abandon Buses and Cars for Motorbikes Why You Don't Like Donating to Charities That Offer Thank-You Gifts Americans Carrying Around Big Money in Unused Gift Cards Introducing Mobile ManageMentor Powered by the proven content of Harvard ManageMentor™ iTunes >> Android >> UNSUBSCRIBE   |   UPDATE YOUR PROFILE   |   MORE EMAIL NEWSLETTERS   |   PRIVACY POLICY Was this email forwarded to you? If so, sign up to start receiving your own copy. ABOUT THIS MAILING LIST You have received this message because you subscribed to the "The Daily Stat" email newsletter from Harvard Business Review. If at any point you wish to remove yourself from this list, change your email address, or sign up for other email newsletters and alerts, please visit the Harvard Business Review Email Newsletter Preference Center. OPT OUT If you do not wish to receive any email messages from Harvard Business Review, click here. ADVERTISE WITH HBR This enewsletter is read by thousands of decision makers every day. Learn more about connecting your brand with this audience. Copyright © 2013 Harvard Business School Publishing, an affiliate of Harvard Business School. All rights reserved. Harvard Business Publishing | 60 Harvard Way | Boston, MA 02163 Customer Service: 800-545-7685 (+1-617-783-7600 outside the U.S. and Canada)