Who Are We Hiring? Impressive Resumes Or World-Class Talents?

Have you heard that in Mohave County, Arizona, a decree declares that people who are caught stealing soap must wash themselves until all their soaps are used up?

And of course, some people, who are smart enough to steal quality soap with natural ingredients, have a great time enjoying their booties’ soothing effects.

But those unfortunate buggers who steal normal soaps, based on various carcinogenic ingredients, are in very deep shit.

Yes, in the short-term the effects are nice and bubbly, as these materials leather really well, but the long-term damage they cause is pretty devastating.

And the reason why I mention this mind-menglingly stupefying fact is because this is happening to many IT companies when hiring business development people.

They hire people with impressive resumes who look good on paper, show up at their interviews wearing $3,000 Armani or Ralph Lauren sartorial masterpieces and present themselves so eloquently that interviewers mistakenly believe that these people really have massive achievements behind them, so end up hiring them.

After all, some of them have worked in large corporations and even have “MBA” behind their names. And then the credential-expertise crack starts widening in a gap and then to the proverbial Grand Canyon…

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