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Google Won't Hire You  June 28, 2013, 4:19 PM  School’s out!
Here is an end-of-the-school-year post in three strands positing
that much of what we do in school is a monumental waste of time,
creativity and intellect.  Strand one: recruitment insights from
Google  In a recent interview in the New York Times, Laszlo
Bock, a senior vice president at Google, reported on the
evolution of his company’s hiring strategies. One comment caught
my eye:   Let’s get this straight. All the attention everyone
pays for all those years to students’ grades and test
scoreseverybody from parents to administrators to college
admissions officers and school evaluatorsis basically pointless
in the long run. It’s unlikely this is just a Google thing.
Students with great grades may make lousy employees, and
underachievers in school might be invaluab