Employees who have done particularly well at Sage share certain characteristics:

• Fiercely interested in environmental engineering, particularly air quality and regulations.
• Upbeat, hard working, and serious about making things happen.
• Don’t wait for someone else to take care of their career growth – they read, learn, and develop relationships on their own.
• Have the strong character and deep ethical principles to earn and keep people’s respect in the long run.
• Genuinely like people and want to engage both their customers and coworkers at a deeper level.
• Passionate about something outside work– be it sports, their families, the outdoors, or poetry, they have a deep need to engage and learn.

People for whom Sage isn’t a fit may share other characteristics:

• Expect to be spoon-fed what they need to know to do a great job.
• Really not that into their chosen field, just along for the ride.
• Think someone else is in charge of their learning and careers.
• Don’t think they should have to understand how the business operates.
• Don’t like meeting new people or developing social relationships outside work with coworkers or customers.
• Negative, passive, or generally low-energy.
• Lack the character to take educated risks, make tough choices, do the right thing, have hard conversations, and earn people’s respect.