Quote from omcate:
Agree. Some employers may think in the following manner:
Getting good grades in exam is easy. Leading a good, meaningful life, establishing a successful business, collaborating with colleagues to finish a mission critical project on time despite all office politics, ect. are much more difficult. If you fail the easy test(college education and exam), why should I believe that you'll become a good employee, and a great asset to my company ? A loser won't become a winner overnight.
Of course, rules are made to be broken. There are always exceptions.
Just my two cents.
Not at all how we think in any of my companies ..... This is a great way to get a company full of dead wood. If your companies can thrive on simply repeating the same idea over and over and over then these are exactly the type of people you want to hire.
The ability to navigate office politics is antithetical to creating value in any company or business process. If you ever actually worked in a large organization on mission critical projects you would quickly come to realize that most of the people on most projects could as well not be there and about 10% of the project team are the people that actually get something done and more often than not these people dont play politics well.
I have hired many people that did not come out of a top school or at the very top of their class and I have worked with many top management at fortune 100 companies that did not satisfy these criteria. Smart hardworking creative people are difficult to find and using the criteria mentioned will only get mediocre hires IMHO.
