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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Serious question: how can you expect the “best and brightest” to be reading your kids’ applications when none of you would apparently encourage (or allow?) your own best and brightest kids to pursue a job like this?[/quote]

I’m not convinced the offices want to hire the best and brightest. [/quote]

Of course they don't. Read Selingo.

It's a business. They get some top-down mandate from Trustees board on diversity #s etc and then they have a budget. Like any other business, they maximize their metrics and the optics while coming in below budget. Applications have 2x'd in 5 years. Their budgets have not. So they use more temp and seasonal labor paid less than barista wages often without college degrees to do first pass read.

Oh great they have two of those read and give a composite score. And the third read is full time office staff who is unlikely given time constraints to change a score of the prior minimum wage readers unless it's an obvious box check to fill a board quota.

And there you go. A process that is not at all geared to ur kids or us. It's all about the college[/quote]

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