Hogwash! Unfortunately, lazy hiring managers in HR figure that they can CYA if the guy’s a failure by saying, “Hey, he was a Harvard man! I figured he would be worth the salary.”
>>>>Hogwash! Unfortunately, lazy hiring managers in HR figure that they can CYA if the guy’s a failure by saying, “Hey, he was a Harvard man! I figured he would be worth the salary.”
>>So much of what is foundationally wrong in corporate America today is addressed in that one comment.
I concur. A large part of the problem is that corporate HR is all about various certifications, since that makes life easy for corporate HR. For example, I’ve met plenty of PMP-certified people who really didn’t know that much about project management.