All Schools are Created Equally

[BCEagle91]

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<p>Even established organizations have the same general problem: how do
you maximize your chances of building a functioning team?</p>

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<p>From what I’ve seen, you use a combination of approaches. You look at
schools in your general area, you use headhunters, you use job lists,
you use your networks and you use your human resource centers. You
also look for experienced employees to mix in with college graduates.</p>

<p>Sometimes you outsource. I am less familiar with the mechanics of this
though I’ve seen it happen to others.</p>

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<p>I’ll point directly to the top: consider the way the Obama
Administration has conducted its hiring. How many high-level officers
in the Federal government just so happened to be old friends of Barack
Obama’s (or, in some cases, Michelle’s)? Surely the government has
sufficient resources to conduct whatever employment searches and
background checks - including FBI background investigations - that it
wants. Yet at the end of the day, the Administration is dotted with a
myriad of Barack’s old pals from Harvard and/or Chicago.</p>

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<p>Perhaps you could enumerate all of the high-level positions so that we
can fact-check your hypothesis. I seem to recall that he went after a
bunch of old Clinton operatives to fill senior posts.</p>

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<p>Nor is Obama particularly unique. G.W.Bush surrounded himself with a
hand-picked team from Texas, and Clinton imported a large Arkansas
(and Georgetown & Yale) contingent to Washington.</p>

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<p>And yet was every high-level post from Texas? Where were his Supreme
Court picks from?</p>

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<p>At the end of the day, you need a team that you can trust.</p>

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<p>Like Tim Geitner? Zoe Baird? Kimba Woods? Harriet Meirs? </p>

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<p>People are
therefore naturally going to gravitate towards those they’ve
successfully worked with in the past.</p>

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<p>When did Obama and Geitner work together?</p>

<p>Go through his cabinet and tell me when they worked together.</p>

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<p>In fact, right now, I know
numerous highly qualified people who would like nothing more than to
work for the Obama Administration, the problem being that they don’t
actually know anybody on the inside, and they certainly don’t know
Barack himself. They have no way in.</p>

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<p>Perhaps they should try starting from the bottom.</p>

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<p>Now, keep in mind that this is in the world of politics, where
complaints regarding nepotism would sting the most and where public
scrutiny is obviously pervasive. Heck, Obama himself campaigned on a
platform on meritocratic technocracy in contrast to the Bush
Administration that placed a premium on loyalty. Yet Obama himself has
imported his own social circle into his Administration. So if this
happens in even the highest circles of government, what do you think
happens in corporate America?</p>

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<p>So is it his social circle or those that he “worked with”.</p>

<p>I work in Corporate America and do see what goes on.</p>