Wow—you only hire PhDs? Only 2% of the United States population has a PhD. Very rare.
Well, the Bell Curve does suggest that the very brightest should be hired for any job—bus boy, whatever. Choosing from only PhDs would be one way to guarantee you are indeed hiring the brightest people.
“Wow—you only hire PhDs? Only 2% of the United States population has a PhD. Very rare.”
I am not looking to hire the 98%. In engineering, there are far more engineers than than 2% with engineering doctorates. It is fairly common to find a significant pool of qualified candidates with the right credentials. If it was easy then everyone would be doing it.
P.S. A case in point: When I took over a team with 35 engineers, four had engineering doctorates, and all had one or more engineering graduate degrees with and engineering undergraduate degrees. It was an enterprise systems architecture team and under performers were not hired or retained. To get through the interview the person had to be able to speak about accomplishments that required high level engineering. Designing multi-billion dollar systems isn’t done by nerds who do not have writing, social, and communication skills.