An Indian Company Announced 63,000 Job Openings... 19 Million People Applied

[ironchef]

I didn't know that about Nadella. That's good to hear, I feel the same way when I see the number of CEOs of big U.S. companies who "just" went to solid state schools, it makes it clear that performance matters more than what school you went to. I think closing the gates based on university admission is a waste of human capital, despite the fact that it personally benefits me.

What really makes the US different is most of us have a second chance, a third chance... to get a good education, or to choose a profession. It took me a few detours to find my calling. In most of the rest of the world, I would have one shot and if failed in that one shot, I might have to get a job in customer service answering phone calls.

 

[srinir]

I didn't know that about Nadella. That's good to hear, I feel the same way when I see the number of CEOs of big U.S. companies who "just" went to solid state schools, it makes it clear that performance matters more than what school you went to. I think closing the gates based on university admission is a waste of human capital, despite the fact that it personally benefits me.

Interesting story in WP about Mary Daly, SF Fed reserve president.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/busi...b9dec761e73_story.html?utm_term=.978a2abb2574

By the time she was 16, Mary C. Daly was a high school drop out in a small town outside St. Louis who believed her best option in life was to become a bus driver.

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Her journey from high school dropout to central bank leader is, in many ways, a quintessential story of grit and hard work paying off. But Daly believes she wouldn’t be where she is today if it weren’t for Betsy Bane, a mentor who told Daly to get a GED and paid for her first semester at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.

Bane told her, “Don’t give up just because people say nobody like you has ever done it.”