Comments by "Tiago D\x27Agostini" (@tiagodagostini) on "Ivy League coach reveals why HARVARD didn't accept me" video.

@steviejohnson378 Because no one hires in CS for example for where you studied. We want the PERSONALITY of the person. What makes someone a true senior developer someday is NOT content, it is behavioral and that already shows in HS. If I am hiring someone for STEAM and I read he won a competition of pressurized water rockets in HS he has already one step inside the company, much much more than someone who is just presenting as someone that studied at that prestigious place A or B.
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@steviejohnson378 Most don't speak, but they are losing points with it. Most recruiters for jobs that require initiative know that actions from before they were at the door of the job market tell a more sincere picture of a personality. There are other indications all over sure. For example, if I am hiring a developer or engineer and he tells me his favorite game is CoD.. or Kerbal Space program.. the second means a LOT of points for him.... If his hobby is building mechanisms with lego technique, that is hugely positive... watching netflix... no. Of course if you are hiring someone 45 years old you do not expect HS to be the focus, in that case even the university is completely irrelevant as job experience is far far more important than your university.
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@steviejohnson378 By definition the hiring process is of personal bias. We want to have people that are of a specific kind of behavior when we hire.. What you think is only relevant when You are hiring. When I am hiring what is relevant is what I think. I am not even remotely alone on my view that College nowadays distorts and hides the true aspects of personality and we seek to gather data from outside it as much as we can.
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@steviejohnson378 No it is not nonsense. While not all colleges have this problem there is a clear case of the college trying to change how people should or should not think. We do not want to see a reflex of the college.. we want to see the real roots of someone we want to hire.
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@steviejohnson378 Not completely but very frequently. I do not hire people that behave as "brainwashed" minds (using the same term you used).. I want to see what is authentic from the employee.
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@steviejohnson378 On the contrary, When I am looking to find the best possible employees (at least for what my company does) I want people that had initiative. Someone that tried to so some interesting extracurricular activities in HS are miles ahead of anyone else when I am hiring. The harder and most important part of the hiring process is to understand the candidate personality, and this helps much more than you might think.
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@Jesseboxer93 Ignore no.. if there is nothing else to differentiate it is not ignored but REAL achievements speak much louder. Someone with real achievements but a not famous school is worth more than someone with only the school. If I have a candidate from a top university with nothing besides that he or she has not much chance against someone that for example is the main contributor to a significant open source project that graduated in a nowhere place.. or even has no graduation at all.. hiring is a risk investment... nothing is less risky than someoen that already proved he or she can do it.
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@somethingclever2 So why do they send their resumés and ask for a job?
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@steviejohnson378 You would be impressed how many candidates for a job on a profit oriented company are absurd activists against all enterprises and capitalism. If you are in my company you must share our goal of profit. If you bark all the time as capitalism is bad... you have no place in a place that seeks profit.
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