The soft skills: sales, marketing, persuasion, public speaking and/or charisma in general.
Get a sales job. Shadow a CEO. Become a bartender. Learn about people and what makes them tick.
Get a sales job. Shadow a CEO. Become a bartender. Learn about people and what makes them tick.
Also, how did you get the opportunities to shadow a CEO? I am not sure how can I provide value to the CEO as a student.
I only learned the bare minimum, which is to do cool things and tell people about them. Even that tiny bit of marketing knowledge made a huge difference to my career.
> how did you get the opportunities to shadow a CEO?
Not all CEOs run fortune 500 companies. My step-father is the sole IT guy at a small manufacturing company. I asked the CEO if I could shadow him one summer and he said yes. The guy knew absolutely nothing about computers, so whenever he had to do anything with a computer, he had me do it. I was always able to get it done in a fraction of the time it took him. He considered that a worthwhile value trade.
If you google around, you'll find stories about how ambitious people have gone about getting their opportunity to shadow CEOs at much, much bigger companies.