DISQUS

rick gregory · 3 years ago

um... 'dummer'?
Matt Marshall · 3 years ago

Touche! Fixed. I'm not revealing my own GPA.
Richard Hemmer · 3 years ago

Well, regarding the hiring standards, maybe they've realized that GPAs aren't everything. Especially in sales, certain abilities and skills simply can't be measured in numbers.
Vivek · 3 years ago

I certainly agree with Richard. Sales and marketing requires skills which cannot be measured only by GPA. It must be considered, but it can't be the deciding factor.
Alpha24Seven · 3 years ago

Hiring by GPA is a stupid practice. Emotional intelligence is more important. How many of us have worked with the brilliant guy that never washes his hair? -- same guy has no idea the difference between a dinner fork and a salad fork and thinks wearing an emoticon T-shirt to a business dinner is appropriate.

Furthermore, I've hired two Harvard MBAs. One was fantastic and the other was brain dead but had impeccable academic achievement. I'm serious when I say this guy couldn't find his car in the parking lot at the end of the day.
Elpert · 3 years ago

Are you attacking the parking-lot-challenged?
BC · 2 years ago

With any GPA standard they wouldn't have hired Bill Gates or Michael Dell and numerous other verry savvy tech execs who didn't even finish college. College does not teach you to be 'savvy'.