Where did your most impressive young colleague (graduated within the past 10 yrs) go to college?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Millersville in Pennsylvania. I hired him over a Harvard grad because his portfolio was better and he had actually hustled and gotten internships.

What type of portfolio?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I work at a place that 20 years ago mainly hired only Ivy and near Ivys. The most impressive person on my team didn’t even go to college. She was hired as a temp when she moved to a city seeking adventure because her family was too poor to send her to college. Her supervisor saw talent and hired her permanently and she was on a steep promotion trajectory. I recruited her (internally) to my team and didn’t even know she didn’t go to college until she had been on my team for almost a year. She’s now a Director. She’s got amazing initiative and willingness to just take responsibility for whatever we throw her way.

Have you offered to pay for her to work on her degree as a nice benefit?

[Anonymous]

MD and Hiram College. There the only ones not from JHU, CMU or an Ivy. Both have the ability to understand any technology put in front of them.

[Anonymous]

WashU, Harvard, Iowa.

[Anonymous]

Tulane and University of Wisconsin

[Anonymous]

East Carolina

The hustle is all that counts

[Anonymous]

George Mason University!

[Anonymous]

I'm curious how you know where everyone went to college. I think I only know where one of my colleagues went because she mentioned it. No one ever asks this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm curious how you know where everyone went to college. I think I only know where one of my colleagues went because she mentioned it. No one ever asks this.

Seen the resume. Know the person outside of work. Have worked with them for a long time and it came up once. Lots of ways to find this out.

[Anonymous]

Princeton
Stanford
Harvard

[Anonymous]

GW

[Anonymous]

Concordia in Montreal. He is Canadian with (I think) dual citizenship.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm curious how you know where everyone went to college. I think I only know where one of my colleagues went because she mentioned it. No one ever asks this.

March Madness

[Anonymous]

I have two new nurses from Catholic U. on my unit that are very impressive

[Anonymous]

Consulting - Michigan Econ grad